Shot in the face in the center of Madrid: the former leader of the Catalan PP and founder of Vox is very serious

Attack on the former president of the People's Party of Catalonia, Alejo Vidal-Quadras Rocha.

The 78-year-old Spanish politician is in very serious condition after being shot in the face in Núñez de Balboa street , in the center of Madrid.

The former popular deputy was walking alone on the street when a man approached him, probably on a motorbike, and shot him from a distance of about two meters.

Then he fled, the police are on his trail.

Vidal-Quadras, president of the Catalan PP from 1991 to 1996, was vice-president of the European Parliament and among the founders of the far-right party Vox.

(Unioneonline/D)