Alleged Vidal Quadras hitman shot dead with shotgun
Alleged hitman in Vidal Quadras attack killed by shotgun in Alhendín as traffic cameras had been repositioned
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Alleged Vidal Quadras hitman shot dead with shotgun
Four shotgun blasts. An execution. And traffic cameras that had been repositioned two days earlier. The alleged hitman in the attack on Alejo Vidal Quadras was found dead the previous night in Alhendín (Granada), as confirmed by El Ideal de Granada. Police were looking for a fourth suspect. Someone got there first. The paradox is uncomfortable: the tighter the net, the less you see.
What we know about the Alhendín killing
The lifeless body of the alleged perpetrator of the attack on the Catalan politician was found in the Granada town of Alhendín. The execution was carried out with four shotgun blasts, and according to the initial message, it was an execution. El Ideal de Granada confirmed the homicide.
The initial message claims the murder was to prevent him from talking. Whoever fired, according to that reading, knew where to find him and when. Police were tracking a fourth suspect in the plot. That fourth suspect, or whoever protected him, got there first.
The cameras that stopped watching
Two days before the murder, the orientation of traffic cameras in the area changed. The result: there is no footage of those who executed the alleged hitman. The timing is, at the very least, striking. Whoever has the authority to reposition those devices has some explaining to do.
The thread compares this to the destruction of a metro carriage linked to the 11-M attacks. That carriage was turned into scrap within hours, according to the message. Here, the cameras simply stopped pointing at the right place.
The three arrests that may have blown the investigation
According to the investigators cited, the haste in the three arrests carried out in Málaga and Granada may have blown the operation from within. The theory is that pieces that could still have led to the masterminds were arrested too early. By arresting, they alerted. And by alerting, they signed the alleged hitman's death warrant.
Some read that sequence as a chain of errors. Others read something worse: a deliberate leak. The difference between the two interpretations is the difference between incompetence and complicity, and no one has yet provided conclusive evidence of the latter.
The flat and the PSOE comptroller
The owner of the flat linked to the events is a PSOE comptroller, according to circulating data. The fact alone proves nothing. But it fuels the hypothesis of a political connection, according to some messages in the thread.
In the thread, several messages point to Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska and his inner circle. The accusations of obstruction or interested negligence are, as of today, suspicions without judicial resolution. That does not make them irrelevant. It makes them pending.
The Iranian lead and the erosion of the official narrative
According to some messages, the attack on Vidal Quadras was initially attributed by certain media to an Iranian lead. In the thread, that hypothesis is questioned as arrests in Málaga and Granada emerged and an alleged hitman who will no longer be able to testify. According to those messages, the version spread by some media changed several times, and each change has fueled distrust.
Some argue the Iranian lead served to divert attention from an internal plot. What does not change is the result: an alleged suspect dead and cameras that saw nothing.
The ghost of 11-M and the Royuela file
In the background of the case appears the so-called Royuela file, which describes an alleged network of contract killings, kidnappings and extortion using state resources. Some analyses point to parallels between that material and the Alhendín execution. The comparison is strong and far from verified.
The ghost of 11-M also resurfaces: the destruction of evidence, leads going cold. Every case of this type reopens the same wound: the feeling that there are areas of the state where investigation does not reach because someone stops it.
What could happen now
The cameras provide no footage. Police were looking for a fourth suspect, according to the initial message. And the political question — whether someone inside the state apparatus facilitated the execution — has no judicial answer.
How many more links must fall before someone explains why the cameras were looking the other way?
Four shotgun blasts. An execution. And traffic cameras that had been repositioned two days earlier. The alleged hitman in the attack on Alejo Vidal Quadras was found dead the previous night in Alhendín (Granada), as confirmed by El Ideal de Granada. Police were looking for a fourth suspect. Someone got there first. The paradox is uncomfortable: the tighter the net, the less you see.
What we know about the Alhendín killing
The lifeless body of the alleged perpetrator of the attack on the Catalan politician was found in the Granada town of Alhendín. The execution was carried out with four shotgun blasts, and according to the initial message, it was an execution. El Ideal de Granada confirmed the homicide.
The initial message claims the murder was to prevent him from talking. Whoever fired, according to that reading, knew where to find him and when. Police were tracking a fourth suspect in the plot. That fourth suspect, or whoever protected him, got there first.
The cameras that stopped watching
Two days before the murder, the orientation of traffic cameras in the area changed. The result: there is no footage of those who executed the alleged hitman. The timing is, at the very least, striking. Whoever has the authority to reposition those devices has some explaining to do.
The thread compares this to the destruction of a metro carriage linked to the 11-M attacks. That carriage was turned into scrap within hours, according to the message. Here, the cameras simply stopped pointing at the right place.
The three arrests that may have blown the investigation
According to the investigators cited, the haste in the three arrests carried out in Málaga and Granada may have blown the operation from within. The theory is that pieces that could still have led to the masterminds were arrested too early. By arresting, they alerted. And by alerting, they signed the alleged hitman's death warrant.
Some read that sequence as a chain of errors. Others read something worse: a deliberate leak. The difference between the two interpretations is the difference between incompetence and complicity, and no one has yet provided conclusive evidence of the latter.
The flat and the PSOE comptroller
The owner of the flat linked to the events is a PSOE comptroller, according to circulating data. The fact alone proves nothing. But it fuels the hypothesis of a political connection, according to some messages in the thread.
In the thread, several messages point to Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska and his inner circle. The accusations of obstruction or interested negligence are, as of today, suspicions without judicial resolution. That does not make them irrelevant. It makes them pending.
The Iranian lead and the erosion of the official narrative
According to some messages, the attack on Vidal Quadras was initially attributed by certain media to an Iranian lead. In the thread, that hypothesis is questioned as arrests in Málaga and Granada emerged and an alleged hitman who will no longer be able to testify. According to those messages, the version spread by some media changed several times, and each change has fueled distrust.
Some argue the Iranian lead served to divert attention from an internal plot. What does not change is the result: an alleged suspect dead and cameras that saw nothing.
The ghost of 11-M and the Royuela file
In the background of the case appears the so-called Royuela file, which describes an alleged network of contract killings, kidnappings and extortion using state resources. Some analyses point to parallels between that material and the Alhendín execution. The comparison is strong and far from verified.
The ghost of 11-M also resurfaces: the destruction of evidence, leads going cold. Every case of this type reopens the same wound: the feeling that there are areas of the state where investigation does not reach because someone stops it.
What could happen now
The cameras provide no footage. Police were looking for a fourth suspect, according to the initial message. And the political question — whether someone inside the state apparatus facilitated the execution — has no judicial answer.
How many more links must fall before someone explains why the cameras were looking the other way?
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