The former leader of the PP of Catalonia and founder of Vox, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, 78 years old, was shot at 1:30 p.m. in the face at noon this Thursday near his home, near Núñez de Balboa street, in the Madrid neighborhood of Salamanca, which has now been cordoned off by the Police . His wife accompanied him and witnessed what happened. According to the first information, the shot entered through one cheekbone and exited through the other. Regarding the authorship, investigation sources point to a motorcyclist with a helmet who was following him and who got off the motorcycle to shoot him, and who then fled.
The former Catalan popular leader was quickly treated by the first police officers who arrived in the area. The former politician and columnist is conscious and has been transferred to a hospital in Madrid, according to Madrid Emergency sources. The National Police is investigating the event, while the Municipal Police keeps the area where the events occurred cordoned off.
Known above all for his political activity and to a certain extent for his articles in the press, Vidal-Quadras is much more than the founder of Vox, and his family is inundated with art and his uncle, who is called like him, has stories related to Royals or characters like Marilyn Monroe or María Callas.
The Vidal-Quadras were industrialists and bankers from Sitges who emigrated to America, where they made a great fortune as Catalan Indians. The parents of the seriously injured former politician were Alejo Vidal-Quadras Villavecchia and María Gloria Roca Norton.
A career physicist, he has two children with his first wife, a member of the aristocratic De Caralt Munné family, and another son with his current wife, the one who accompanied him this Thursday of terror: Amparo Fuertes Ferragut.