(NL Times) Police in the Netherlands arrested a 38-year-old Tunisian man in connection with the attempted assassination of Spanish populist politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras. The suspect was captured in Haarlem on June 6, according to the Noord-Holland district of the Public Prosecution Service (OM). His apprehension was first made public on Wednesday.
Spanish newspaper El País identified the suspect as Mehrez Ayari, a French-Tunisian man Spanish police suspect of shooting Vidal-Quadras in Madrid in November. He was allegedly in the planning stages of another politically-motivated murder when he was apprehended in Haarlem, where he was staying under an assumed name.
A Dutch woman was one of five people previously arrested in the case.
