Former leader of the PP of Catalonia Alejo Vidal-Quadras, 78, was shot in the face at noon this Thursday. According to police sources, at the height of Nunez de Balboa Street in the Salamanca district of Madrid. Europe Press.

The former Catalan “popular” leader is aware of this and He was transferred to a hospital in Madrid. According to Madrid Emergency sources.

The National Police is investigating this event. Municipal police cordoned off the area where the events took place.

According to SER Networkthe attacker fled on a motorcycle. The police do not exclude any versions, including robbery, they note.

Vidal-Quadras was Vice-President of the European Parliament. President of the conservative People’s Party of Catalonia in the 1990s, and then served as a member of the European Parliament until 2014, after which he worked for some time in Spanish far-right party Vox.

The attack came on the same day that leaders of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and the Catalan independent organization Together for Catalonia (JxCat) signed an agreement. future amnesty agreement for people who took part in the Catalan independence process in 2017, which opens the door for a new inauguration of socialist Pedro Sánchez at the head of the government for another four years.

The amnesty law will have to register in the coming days at the Spanish Congress for processing, ahead of the Pedro Sanchez investment debate expected next week.

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This amnesty project was was sharply criticized by the conservative People’s Party (PP), who won the July 23 elections, but whose leader, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, He fell short of the votes to become president when he went to Congress to take office in October.

He also rejected it far right corner of Vox, whose leaders supported the gatherings of protesters in front of the PSOE headquarters, where, as in the case of Madrid, incidents of police intervention have been recorded in recent days.

Wednesday marked the sixth day in a row of a recent wave of protests in front of PSOE headquarters in cities such as Madrid, where heavy riot police were deployed following incidents with six arrested and 39 injured.

The police presented one of their cars two young people with their faces covered and that they were subject to recriminations from other protesters who did not want violence.

As on previous days, among those gathered were members of far-right groups. Some media outlets have named figures linked to the far right who have faced legal action in the past for their actions.

(according to information from Europa Press, EFE and Aristegui News)