Attack on a Spanish politician: Did the bullet come from Iran?

Vidal Cuadras himself suspected that the Iranian regime was behind the assassination attempt. He allegedly told the police about this “He has no other enemies.”According to what was reported by the Spanish newspaper the world.

The relationship between Vidal Cuadras and the Iranian opposition is indeed close. When he founded the far-right Vox party with others in 2014, he… Iranians are big spenders. They financed 80% of Vox’s first campaign, the 2014 European election campaign, with Vidal Cuadras as party leader. When he was not elected, he turned his back on the Vox Party and disappeared from the political scene.

However, Vidal Cuadras continued to express his frank opinion about Spanish politics. The same goes for Thursday. Regarding the agreement just concluded between the social democrat Pedro Sanchez and the Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, he wrote on the X website that it “crushes the rule of law and puts an end to the separation of powers.” In this way, our nation is no longer a liberal democracy, but one Totalitarian tyranny.’

The agreement that Vidal Cuadras refers to stipulates an amnesty for politicians and activists who have tried to push for Catalan independence since 2012. Among them is former regional president Puigdemont.

An hour after Vidal Cuadras expressed his anger, he was shot in Madrid’s affluent Salamanca district. So at first it seemed that one thing was related to the other. That photo was later modified.

Bullet through the cheek

At the time of the attack, Vidal Cuadras had just left Mass or the gym, reports vary in Spanish media. A man wearing a motorcycle helmet fired a bullet at him at close range, but the politician reflexively moved away, causing the bullet to fly through one cheek and out the other. And that became his salvation.

Alejo Vidal Cuadras has had an eventful political career. His family came from Barcelona’s bourgeoisie, but as a regional representative of the conservative People’s Party, Vidal Cuadras opposed Catalan nationalism from the beginning.

Later, between 1999 and 2014, he became a Member of the European Parliament for the People’s Party. During that period he was in contact with the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a group that wanted to overthrow the Islamic regime in Iran.