The Civil Guard has dismantled a paramilitary organization of Nazi ideology with the arrest of eleven of its leaders, and the investigation of many others in the provinces of Almería, Alicante, Bizkaia, Castellón, Jaén, La Rioja, Madrid, Málaga, Navarra, Pontevedra , Segovia, Seville, Teruel, Toledo, Valencia and Zaragoza.
Those involved are considered perpetrators of the crimes of illicit association, insults to State institutions, attacks, illicit possession of weapons and promotion, promotion and incitement to hatred, discrimination and violence towards various groups, as reported by the Ministry. inland.
In the eight searches that have taken place in Málaga and Roquetas de Mar (Almería), the Civil Guard has seized ten firearms, more than 9,000 cartridges, explosive precursors, 34 bottles of sulfuric acid, and numerous weapons prohibited among brass knuckles. , kubotanes, automatic knives, and defense sprays, among others. The agents have also found numerous propaganda effects of neo-Nazi ideology.
As reported by the Civil Guard, the investigations began in November 2021, when the Civil Guard detected how one of the leaders spread numerous online videos "in which he seriously denigrated himself and spread hatred towards different groups, especially towards migrants, women or the LGTBI community".
Its administrator had a high level of ascendancy within these virtual groups - with 2,800 followers -, going so far as to express to his followers the need to create an "army" to "end the established regime" and implement his ideology, encouraging them to embrace to the same and inviting them to arm themselves.
At that point, several of the followers created a self-proclaimed "military order" of "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 throughout different parts of the country, holding regular meetings, both physical and virtual. The association had a "headquarters" in the province of Malaga.
The detained leaders gave the guidelines to "arm themselves", several members obtaining weapons licenses and acquiring rifles, shotguns and pistols, while others acquired easily transformed detonating weapons to make them capable of firing, complemented with bladed weapons and prohibited of various kinds.
The operation, led by the Delegate Hate Prosecutor's Office of the Province of Malaga and the Investigative Court number 4 of Fuengirola, has been carried out by specialized Information agents from the Malaga Command and the Basque Country Zone.
