Alejo Vidal-Quadras narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in November. He made his first public appearance this Friday since the incident.
The 78-year-old former vice-president of the European Parliament has always been close to Iranian opposition movements. Four people were arrested as part of the investigation into this assassination attempt, but the alleged shooter, a Frenchman of Tunisian origin who has already been the subject of several convictions in France, is still on the run. The bullet entered one side of his jaw and exited the other. He has suffered from after-effects, including “a certain paralysis of the facial muscles”