The General Directorate of Victims of Terrorism of the Ministry of the Interior has contacted the politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras, former leader of the Popular Party and co-founder of Vox to offer assistance as a victim of terrorism after the shot he received in the face on November 9 in Madrid.
As reported this Tuesday by the newspaper El Confidencial and sources from the department headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska confirm to EFE, this is a normal and automatic procedure that the Interior activates when the National Court opens a judicial case for terrorism.
This is the case of the armed attack that Vidal-Quadras suffered on November 9 on Núñez de Balboa Street in Madrid, near his home, when a man, who has not yet been arrested, shot him in the face.
Five days after the attack, which the victim herself linked to an organization related to the Iranian regime, National Court judge Francisco de Jorge took over the investigation, estimating that it could be a crime of attempted murder of a terrorist nature.
With the opening of the case, the General Directorate of Victims of Terrorism contacted Vidal-Quadras, 78 years old and who was admitted to the hospital for two weeks, to inform him of the rights that assist him as a possible victim of terrorism.
Meanwhile, the investigation to arrest the alleged perpetrator of the shooting remains in the hands of the General Information Commissariat of the National Police, which at the end of November arrested three people – two in Lanjarón (Granada) and one in Fuengirola (Málaga).
The magistrate sent the detainee in Lanjarón to prison, while he released his partner and the person arrested in the Malaga town.
In addition, it issued an international search and arrest warrant against Mehrez Ayari, 37, a Frenchman of Tunisian origin with multiple records in France, his country of residence, and whom the Police consider the material author of the attack.
