A woman with Dutch nationality has been arrested in the Netherlands in relation to an attack on a right-wing Spanish politician who was shot in Madrid, Spanish police said on Tuesday.
Alejandro Vidal-Quadras, a founder of Spain’s far-right Vox party, was shot in the face in broad daylight near his home in the upscale Salamanca neighbourhood of Madrid on 9 November by a motorcycle passenger.
Long a supporter of the Iranian opposition, the 78-year-old Vidal-Quadras has accused the Iranian regime of involvement in the shooting. ALSO READ: Possible Iran link, after Spanish right-wing politician shot in the face in Madrid.
Three people had already been arrested as part of the investigation into the shooting, but the suspected gunman — a French national of Tunisian origin with several previous convictions in France — remains at large. ALSO READ: Three arrested in Andalusia over alleged connection to shooting of Vidal-Quadras.
‘A woman was arrested in Holland for her alleged participation in the financing and preparation of the attack on Vidal-Quadras,’ the national police said in a brief statement. They said she was detained after Spain issued a European arrest warrant.
Vidal-Quadras was a member and then vice-president of the European Parliament between 1994 and 2014. He was also a former head of the right-wing People’s Party (PP) in Catalonia.
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