Police: Alhendín Shooting Victim Was Not Vidal-Quadras Assassin

Police: Alhendín Deceased Was Not the Assassin

Who was the man found with four shotgun pellets in Alhendín, a town in Granada? The question remains unanswered, with information being corrected on the fly. The National Police rule out that the deceased was the alleged material author of the attack on Vidal-Quadras, co-founder of Vox and former PP leader. The man was 42 years old and a local resident. The investigation continues pursuing the fourth person involved in the assault on the politician, and the case remains open.

Four Shotgun Shots and a Mismatched Body

Initial reports spoke of an execution: four shotgun blasts, a 42-year-old Alhendín resident, and the immediate suspicion that he was the man sought for the attack. The coincidence was tempting, almost too perfect. A corpse closing the circle left no witness to reveal who was behind it.

The problem arose with the denial. The National Police rule out this hypothesis: the dead man is not the assassin. Meanwhile, a house in central Lanjarón, linked to one of those arrested for their alleged connection to the attack, was searched. None of this closes the case, and the status of suspect hangs over every name and charge.

The Attack That Started It All

It is worth recalling the starting point, as the noise has obscured it. Vidal-Quadras, co-founder of Vox and former PP leader, was attacked. The investigation led to three arrests between Málaga and Granada and the search for a fourth person involved, who has not yet appeared. The assault on the politician became the hub of a tangled web with arrests in two provinces, home searches, and an unconfirmed international hypothesis.

When handling such matters, the narrative usually stays ahead of the investigation. Here it was the reverse: the corpse appeared first, then the theory, and finally the correction. This disordered order explains much of what has been written over the past few days.

Identity, Cameras, and Searches: Details That Do Not Add Up

The initial headline placed the deceased as a man of Segarro origin; another version, attributed in the thread to Alvise, spoke of a Tunisian-origin Frenchman. Both descriptions cannot be true simultaneously, and neither has been officially confirmed as that of the alleged assassin. The discrepancy is not a minor detail: it marks the distance between what is known and what is reported.

Parallel to this, there have been claims of a change in traffic camera orientation two days prior, which would have prevented capturing those who carried out the shooting. There is also the version that the house where the deceased lived belonged to a PSOE auditor. These are assertions appearing in journalistic sources and comments, without official confirmation, and should be read as such: unverified clues, not proof.

Iran, False Flags, and Other Unproven Hypotheses

The void of explanation was filled with the usual suspects. That the Iranian Government might be behind it, that it was a false flag operation, that foreign intelligence services were involved, or that it was linked to 11M. None of these hypotheses have probative backing in what has been published so far, and several rely on analogies with old cases: the Leganés attack, Kennedy’s assassination — whose 60th anniversary had just passed — or the apartment that blew up.

A thread participant pointed out a detail worth noting: crimes attributed to a certain orbit usually have a warning component, wanting the dissident to know who commands. If the goal here was to silence the executor, the message’s recipient changes. This tension — killing to exhibit or killing to cover up — remains unresolved, and no banner solves it.

What Is Known About the Deceased

Little, and that is relevant. A resident of Alhendín, 42 years old, killed by shotgun blasts under circumstances the police do not link to the attack on Vidal-Quadras. His death, however, is surrounded by the questions traversing the thread: who had an interest in him not speaking, who had access to his home, and why the main lead vanished so quickly.

The answers are not in the headlines, they are in the file.

With three arrests, a corpse the police dissociate from the attack, and a fourth person involved still at large, the case remains open. A comment from the debate summarized it with a phrase: “Dead men rarely speak”.