2,000 people, Nazi chants, accusations and 2 arrests following the return of demonstrations against Sánchez

Flares, thrown glass bottles, flaming containers and police charges. A year after the violent incidents in Ferraz – which gave rise to 84 arrests – altercations resumed this Saturday around the national headquarters of the PSOE. Despite everything, the riot police They managed to deter and disperse the groups accumulating in the area within minutes.. In total, agents arrested two men.

The police charges took place after 10:30 p.m., when the demonstration officially ended. It started at the Plaza de España, crossed Princesa and turned towards Marqués de Urquijo to finish in Ferraz.

The organizer was the Núcleo Nacional, an organization supposedly born in the wake of National November, the movement that promoted last year’s episodes. However, Núcleo Nacional assures this newspaper that it was born from different YouTube channels dedicated to “politics and history”.

The march started after 8 p.m. with some delay. One of the objectives was to protest against the executive of Pedro Sánchez for his management of DANA. A few hours earlier, another demonstration, called by far-left organizations, had protested in Sol against the “president” of the Valencian Community, the popular Carlos Mazón. For both, the police deployment this Saturday in the center of Madrid reached 200 agents.

From Nucleus National, they explained to this newspaper that the organization has had among its members since National Socialist profiles to Carlists. They also assured that the movement “is not violent” and that they did not go to Ferraz to “hit anyone.”

Even though the management context of DANA ultimately gave rise to the appeal, the group He first broadcast it on the social network X on October 21more than a week before the tragedy. Various nationalist groups and profiles and the far right amplified this call on their own digital channels.

Thus, during the march, the Núcleo Nacional also advocated for the fall of the “regime” of 78. Beyond Sánchez, he is also not a supporter of the PP or Vox. Bet on a “totalitarian system” because the current “regime”, democratic, is “ineffective”.

In addition to flags and banners of support for the Valencians, they were seen many pre-constitutional, with the aiglet, in addition to the Phalangist symbology. Racist chants were also heard –“No Moors, Spain is not a zoo” – and the Nazis – “Adolf Hitler was right” or “Sieg Heil”-, this last slogan accompanied by the fascist salute.

According to the government delegation, 2,000 people participated in the demonstration. Several Núcleo Nacional supporters, who stood at their head, had the group’s name and symbol written on their clothing.

The group assures that it was they who, through the megaphone, canceled the demonstration, which took place shortly before 10:30 p.m., in front of the security barriers which separated them from the Ferraz district where the socialist headquarters are located. “From that moment on, everything that happened, the National Core no longer had anything to do with it,” he defends himself.

police charges

What happened in Ferraz after 10:30 p.m. is reminiscent of what happened in November 2023, even if it did not last long. At that time, agents of Police Intervention Unit (UIP) They charged a group of demonstrators who had tried to tear down the security barrier.

There were police officers running after the demonstrators, burning containers and bottles against riot police. These, in turn, threw rubber bullets to disperse the participants who remained during the altercations in Marqués de Urquijo.

THE the tension in Ferraz and its surroundings had already dissipated around 11 p.m., although police arrested a man on the same street at that time of night. It didn’t take long for traffic to Marqués de Urquijo and Ferraz to open up.

Two people were arrested in connection with the riotsas sources from the Government Delegation confirmed to EFE. The PSOE condemned the “black march” and regretted the “fascist cries” and the “Nazi salutations” of these “hooded neo-Francoists”.