As always at that time, the Falangists organized events in Madrid in memory of their ideologue, José Antonio Primo de Rivera. Last year they tried to incite mobilizations against the PSOE at the headquarters of Ferraz, with little success, in the heat of the demonstrations against Pedro Sánchez and the amnesty, but this year they also focused on the PP, taking the opportunity to question the direction of the disaster due to the DANA in Valencia.
The march began very close to the popular headquarters of Genoa, with a warlike speech from a youth leader, inflamed by the desire for “the restoration of the empire” and by the much applauded symbolism of the yoke and arrows, “ forged in eternal fire. of the Spanish breed. Then the march began, with a first stop in front of the PP headquarters. “The Valencians died drowned when we did not know who had the competition,” shouted into the megaphone Norberto Pico, leader of the Spanish Phalanx of JONS, one of the minority Phalangist formations that survive among the different divisions and branches of the parent company. .
The “Face the sun” was heard in the streets of Madrid, even if the demonstration was in the minority and barely occupied half of a street running along the facade of the PP building. Among the participants there were of course many energetic young people, who lit flares from time to time and who confronted a boy who was recording the march near the Ruiz Jiménez roundabout. A police officer recklessly pushed him away, so that the boy fell down the stairs of the subway entrance in a spectacular manner, but without much injury, according to what he himself reassured witnesses. His name is Pablo Nahuel and he says he thought the protesters were soccer fans.
“Pedro Sánchez, son of a bitch” was joined this evening by “Ayuso, clown, the menas of your house”. When the expedition arrived in Ferraz, after having demanded, among other things, “social assistance for nationals”, five people were waiting on the street corner with Marqués de Urquijo. There was then another moment of oratory. Manuel Andrino, leader of the Falange España (not to be confused with the others), accused the PSOE and celebrated the attacks against Pedro Sánchez, Mazón and the kings during their visit to Paiporta: “They got what they deserved and not much happened to them. .”
Since the approval of the law on democratic memory, followers of fascism have had to measure their speeches to avoid sanctions for denigrating the victims of the Franco regime, which is why the organization once again recalled that no flag other than the official one was accepted. Some disobeyed and brandished the Francoist banner. At the end of the event, a cloth with Mussolini’s image was also discovered. But the majority complied and the demonstration ended at 11 p.m., with a half-hour margin compared to the initial program. The first national police vans began to leave after ten minutes. On a roadside terrace, a glass of beer in hand, a middle-aged man shouted: “You are the STASI, you bastards. »
