Overview
- The Provincial Court of Valencia, which ruled Wednesday, imposed a three-year prison sentence for drug trafficking but suspended it for four years under a plea agreement.
- Police detained Vidal in February 2025 in Valencia’s Plaza Xúquer carrying about 103 grams of tusi, known as “pink cocaine,” that the court said was meant for sale and worth about €5,700.
- Judges applied a drug-addiction mitigating factor, ordered him into a rehabilitation program, and set the condition that he not reoffend during the suspension period.
- He must also pay a €5,800 fine, adding to a separate €2,160 penalty issued in January for damaging a market parking barrier while intoxicated.
- Vidal still faces a separate case over the 2019 death of photographer José Luis Abad, with prosecutors’ requested prison terms reported as four years by several Spanish outlets and eight years by RPP.