2023-12-16 19:55:10
Updated Saturday, December 16, 2023 – 18:55
Ten firearms, more than 9,000 cartridges, explosive precursors, 34 bottles of sulfuric acid, and numerous prohibited weapons have been seized.
Nazi iconography found in the records of the Civil Guard. Civil GuardCombat 18 They arrest 16 suspects of belonging to a neo-Nazi gang linked to white supremacism
The Civil Guard has dismantled a paramilitary organization of Nazi ideology with the arrest of eleven of its leaders and the investigation of eleven other members in Almera, Alicante, Vizcaya, Castelln, Jan, La Rioja, Madrid, Malaga, Teruel, Navarra, Pontevedra, Segovia, Seville, Toledo, Valencia and Zaragoza.
They are considered perpetrators of the crimes of illicit association, insults to State institutions, attack, illegal possession of weapons and promotion, promotion and incitement to hatreddiscrimination and violence towards various groups, the Civil Guard reports in a press release.
In the eight searches that have taken place in Mlaga and Roquetas de Mar (Almera), they have been seized ten firearms, more than 9,000 cartridges, precursors of explosives, 34 bottles of sulfuric acid, and numerous prohibited weapons such as brass knuckles, kubotanes, switchblades, and self-defense guns, among others.
Agents have also found numerous propaganda effects of Neo-Nazi ideologue.
The investigations began in November 2021, when the Civil Guard detected how one of the leaders spread numerous online videos in which hatred was seriously denigrated and spread towards different groups, especially towards the migrants, women or the LGTBI community.
Its administrator had 2,800 followers in these virtual groups, to whom he expressed the need to create an “army” to “end the established regime” and implement its ideologyencouraging them to take advantage of it and inviting them to arm themselves.
At that point, several of the followers created a self-proclaimed “military order” of a marked supremacist character, whose leaders defined themselves as “captain general” and “commander”, with “territorial captains” at the provincial level.
Its members were distributed in groups at different points of the national geography, holding periodic meetings, both physical and virtual. The association had a “headquarters” in the province of Malaga.
The detainees gave the instructions to “arm themselves”, arriving several members to obtain weapons licenses and acquired rifles, shotguns and pistols, while others acquired detonating weapons that were easily transformed to make them capable of firing, complemented by edged and prohibited weapons of various kinds.
This operation, led by the Delegated Hate Prosecutor’s Office of the Province of Malaga and the Investigative Court No. Fuengirolahas been carried out by specialized Information agents from the Malaga Command and the Basque Country Zone.
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