Dutch-Moroccan Drug Cartel Suspected in Attack on Spanish Far-Right Politician

According to sources close to the investigation opened in this case, the Moroccan mafia active in the Netherlands would have recruited Mehrez Ayari, a 27-year-old French of Tunisian origin living in Paris, to target Quadras, a former leader of the Spanish Popular Party (PP) and founding member of the far-right party Vox. On November 9, witnesses saw a young man of 1.75 meters point a firearm at the head of Alejo Vidal-Quadras, recalls El Pais.

Ayari has a well-filled criminal record. He has already been convicted of various crimes in several countries such as Greece, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. "He is a born killer," the same sources indicate, specifying that the young man is one of the most wanted fugitives in the world, the subject of an Interpol red notice, an arrest warrant from France and another from Spain.

If it is proven that the order to kill Vidal-Quadras comes from the Dutch Mocro Maffia led by Ridouan Taghi, it would be the first assassination attempt against a Spanish citizen, apart from settling scores with rival gangs.

For the moment, the investigators are considering the Iranian track for the assassination attempt on Quadras. According to the newspaper Telegraaf, Taghi would have links with the Iranian regime for which he would have carried out "executions" in Europe. For a few years now, the Moroccan mafia has been trying to settle on the Spanish coasts to transport drugs from Colombia. The investigation is ongoing.