Suspect allegedly involved in shooting of Spain Vox party co-founder is arrested in Colombia

Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a former vice-president of the European parliament and co-founder of Spain's Vox party, was shot in the head in Madrid last year

Colombian police say they have arrested a Venezuelan suspected of involvement in the alleged attempted assassination in Madrid last year of a co-founder of Spain's far-right Vox party.

Greg Oliver Higuera Marcano was wanted in connection with last year's shooting of Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a former leader of Spain's main rightwing political party in Catalonia who went on to co-found Vox, and is a former vice-president of the European parliament.