The arrest of three people this Tuesday for their alleged connection to the attempted murder on November 9 of the former president of the PP of Catalonia and founder of Vox Alejo Vidal-Quadras was possible because of the effective police work, but also because of the traces that the suspected participants left behind before, during and after the attack. The evidence found on a motorcycle that was not completely burned, the location of a rental car that was traveling at excessive speed between Madrid and Andalusia on key dates, and the images captured by the surveillance cameras near the location where the man was shot. politically, have allowed those responsible for the investigation to establish the context of an incident in which the search is still ongoing for the killer who fired the shot and those who are believed to have ordered it. The so-called Iranian tip-off, which suggests that the attack could be linked to the links that the politician has had with the Iranian dissident since his time as a European Parliamentarian of the PP (1999-2014), remains the main hypothesis According to investigators, they were carried out by the Arrests increased.
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A burned motorcycle. The first tip that police worked on was the motorcycle on which the perpetrator fled, along with a second person waiting for him behind the wheel of the vehicle. Initial reports suggested that both had fled the scene in a black Yamaha T-Max. However, hours later, investigators found a motorcycle of a different brand, in this case BMW, in an open field on Canario Street in Fuenlabrada (Madrid), near the famous Cobo Calleja industrial area. The perpetrators of the attempted murder had tried to destroy it to cover tracks, but the vehicle was not completely burned and the police were able to recover the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number, abbreviated in English), the 17 characters engraved on the frame are unique for each vehicle.
This information revealed that the vehicle was registered in the province of Málaga and led the agents to the person who was or had been its owner and was among the people arrested that Tuesday. In his statement to police, he admitted that he had something to do with the vehicle, but concealed the fact that it was stolen. The investigators, who have not yet ruled out the use of a second motorcycle in the incident, are now trying to find out how much involvement there was in the attempted murder.
A rental car with a ticket. The police reached the other two detainees in another vehicle, in this case a metallic blue rental car that was illegally parked in Lanjarón (Granada). The car, which had been leased to a company based in Málaga, was found parked almost by chance on Eras del Salado street in that city. The city government wanted to clear this road of vehicles to continue cutting down the trees, and the local police entered their license plate number into the computer system to proceed with the removal. In this way, those responsible for investigating the attack, who were looking for this car after its presence was detected in key locations of the event, received a warning and focused their investigation on this city. The agents had reviewed business surveillance camera recordings from both the day of the attack and the days before at the crime scene and in the area where the burned motorcycle appeared, specifically searching for suspicious vehicles. Sources close to the investigation add that this vehicle was also caught on traffic radars and fined after exceeding the speed limit while traveling between Madrid and Andalusia.
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A Shiite in the Alpujarras. One of those detained in Lanjarón is a Spanish citizen who adheres to the Shiite branch of Islam, which is the majority in Iran. He was arrested along with his partner – a woman of British nationality whose mother had rented the house in the city of Granada where they were. Investigators believe he is the suspected organizer of the attack and the person who allegedly hired the hitman who shot him. In addition to his relationship with the rental vehicle, viewing the images recorded by the surveillance cameras made it possible to locate him in the area around Vidal-Quadras’ house in the days before the attack and presumably to collect information for the commission of the murder. The agents are not so clear about the connection to the events of their romantic partner, apart from the rent of the house where they had only lived for a few weeks. His arrest was made to record his statement.
A lost killer. Police are convinced that none of those arrested are the perpetrators of the shooting that left the politician seriously injured with a broken jaw. The agents assume that the person arrested in Lanjarón hired a professional hitman, a hit man, for this purpose, allegedly at the request of unknown third parties. Suspicion is directed at a man of French nationality but of Tunisian origin, against whom the Paris authorities had issued a European summons before the events. [orden de detención o búsqueda] for murder. Although he covered his face with a motorcycle helmet on the day he shot Vidal-Quadras, images from surveillance cameras in the area have shown that he did not take the same precautions in the previous days when he was supposedly scouting the location , which is the case allowed researchers to put a face to it. Police believe he deliberately traveled to Spain to commit the crime and may have already left the country.
This person is believed to be the same person who was involved in an apparently random event near La Zarzuela Palace the day before the attack. That day, the royal family’s security spotted a black motorcycle with similar characteristics to the one used in the attack driving toward the palace on the so-called Hippodrome Road. The inmate, who spoke French, explained to the agents that he was lost, and they explained to him how to get out without adding more meaning to the episode. Only after the security forces learned of the attempted murder of Vidal-Quadras did they link the protagonist of the incident to the events due to the vehicle in which he was traveling.
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