The Diplomat
The former vice president of the European Parliament Alejo Vidal-Quadras, who was also president of the Catalan PP and one of the co-founders of Vox, recounted yesterday in a press conference the “miracle” by which he saved his life in the attack that occurred in Madrid on last November 9th. “I have no doubt that it was the Iranian regime,” he said on several occasions.
Appearing before the media at an event at the Madrid Press Association held amid security measures, Vidal-Quadras warned that he will not give up “his entire life” in his support for the Iranian opposition and called for stronger measures from the European Union such as closing the embassies and expelling the personnel that Iran has deployed in the West, Europa Press reports.
In addition, he showed his confidence in the ongoing investigation into an attempted murder for terrorist purposes opened in the National Court and in the investigations of the General Information Commissariat of the National Police, although recognizing that “it is not easy to establish the relationship between the detained hitmen and the Iranian regime. “Hopefully, I have all the trust and respect in the Spanish Justice system,” he emphasized.
Vidal-Quadras, still recovering from the after-effects of the shot that pierced his jaw, acknowledged that since he appeared on a blacklist of supposed enemies of Iran he had already become “worried,” although never, not even days before the attack in Madrid when he was returning from walking in Retiro Park, “he had noticed nothing nor had he received threats.”
In this sense, he expressly thanked the Ministry of the Interior for its “willingness” to, after the assassination attempt, increase his security with a “very complete” device. “I am very protected, it would not be easy for them to try to kill me again,” he said, adding that he sees it as difficult for Iran to order his assassination again, since this would increase the unrest of Western countries.
