The former leader of the PP of Catalonia and also founder of Vox Alejo Vidal-Quadras, 78 years old, was shot in the face at noon this Thursday at number 40 Núñez de Balboa Street, in the Madrid neighborhood of Salamanca.
Police sources assure this newspaper that investigators have not yet ruled out the hypothesis of an attack in the case of the shooting suffered by Aleix Vidal Quadras, according to reports Juan José Fernández.
Two authors and small caliber
Apparently he was shot with a small caliber, although police sources warn that it is too early to determine that detail. The health services have managed to stabilize him. Police officers are still collecting testimonies and evidence in the area to reconstruct what happened.
In principle, there are two perpetrators, who were on a motorcycle and with their heads covered by helmets, and who fled after hitting Vidal Quadras in the jaw.
The Homicide Group of the Madrid Police Headquarters and scientific police officers have taken charge of the investigation into the attempted murder of Vidal Quadras.
#Assault with a firearm in c/Núñez de Balboa, 40. #Salamanca.@SAMUR_PC stabilizes a 78-year-old man with a gunshot wound and transports him to a hospital in #Madrid.@police investigate. Collaborate @policiademadrid. pic.twitter.com/OZHJH866no
— Emergencies Madrid (@EmergenciasMad) November 9, 2023
The former ‘popular’ MEP was also conscious when he was transferred to a hospital in Madrid, according to Madrid Emergency sources.
The National Police is investigating the causes of the event, while the Municipal Police keeps the area where the events took place cordoned off.
An hour before he criticized the PSOE-Junts pact
An hour before what happened, Vidal-Quadras himself published on the social network ‘X’ a comment against the content of the agreement sealed in Brussels by the PSOE and Junts that paves the way for the inauguration of the acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
The infamous pact between Sánchez and Puigdemont that crushes the rule of law in Spain and ends the separation of powers has already been agreed. Our Nation will thus cease to be a liberal democracy and become a totalitarian tyranny. We Spaniards will not allow it.
— Alejo Vidal-Quadras (@VidalQuadras) November 9, 2023
“The infamous pact between Sánchez and Puigdemont has already been agreed upon, which crushes the rule of law in Spain and ends the separation of powers. Our Nation will thus cease to be a liberal democracy and become a totalitarian tyranny. We Spaniards will not allow it.” , He has written.
From the PP to Vox
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Alejo Vidal-Quadras was president of the PP of Catalonia from 1991 to 1996 and was removed by the national leadership of the party after the Majestic Pact with CiU. His destiny then was the European Parliament, where he was elected European parliamentarian in the period between 1999 and 2014, becoming vice president of the European chamber.
However, in January 2014 he announced that he was leaving the PP, given that he maintained a critical stance towards the party’s former president Mariano Rajoy, and began joining Vox, where he held the provisional presidency and was head of the list for the European elections. of that year, without obtaining representation. In 2015 he also left the team directed by Santiago Abascal.