Two nights ago, Tuesday, November 12, barely fifty people, mostly elderly, demonstrated at the door of a parish on Ferraz Street with pre-constitutional flags and insults to the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez . A black crepe on a reddish background was the only reference to DANA which devastated part of Valencia and Castile-La Mancha. The rest, curses of all kinds against the political class. Three days ago, the scene was much larger. Up to 2,000 people, police sources explain, came to demonstrate from the Spanish Steps towards the national headquarters of the PSOE, on nearby Ferraz Street.
This is a timely appeal communicated by the National Nucleus (NN) to the Government Delegation in Madrid, which was unable to suspend it. The estimate for this new neo-Nazi entity (now a year old and then called National November) was 1,500 participants, with the motto “For political plurality.” An oxymoron for the mass of masked individuals who spent the entire night chanting “Hitler, Hitler, Hitler!” » and “Face the sun”, among other cries.
Researchers currently consider NN to be the most aggressive and active of the far-right organizations. It is scandalous that it has been registered for three months in the National Register of Associations of the Ministry of the Interior. The officers assigned to the demonstration that day, which resulted in only two arrests and a slightly injured police officer, witnessed a demonstration of violence by these ultras that had not been seen for a long time. in the far right of the capital. “They are the closest thing to a paramilitary group. “These are organized people who are training for urban guerrilla warfare,” an agent who has worked hard in many types of riots tells ABC and who denies political slogans in the police intervention in this operation.
NN and other sister entities, like Facta España, have “gyms and places where they meet to practice mixed martial arts, boxing” and all kinds of attack techniques, and not in a sporting capacity or personal self-defense. For example, at the Rincón Hispánico, Andrés Mellado Street (Chamberí). Most of its “activists” are around thirty years old and display significant musculature. These are built-in cabinets that are also found in open-air spaces but unobtrusive to ordinary people for training in the use of brute force. The prosecution has just requested four years in prison against the spokesperson for Facta, Carlos San Frutos, for the offense of assault during the illegal national demonstration in November a year ago, in the same scenario.
Since August 2024, they have been registered in the National Register of Associations of the Ministry of the Interior. Among their “ideological” bases, they advocate, in principle, the defense of the unity of Spain and its borders, the promotion of the birth rate, the promotion of traditional family units or “the protection of our race and our culture “. “They express their hatred towards what they call ‘the modern world’, by putting forward classic values and ideas,” explain the police experts.
That is to say, they are against immigrants, LGTBI, leftists, climate change, they are anti-Semitic, they consider Covid as a “plandemic” and the Holocaust as a dream which, if it had existed according to them, was necessary. Now they are trying to improve their image by supposedly helping people affected by DANA (“cold drop”, as they call it) in Valencia.
Facta España members, training at Rincón Hispánico headquarters
Its hardest circle is made up of people from Skin Moncloa, National Democracy, the former Juventudes Canillejas, Outlaw (the most violent faction of Ultras Sur)… Its founders and most visible faces are Enrique Lemus, a historian linked to DN; the “streamer” nicknamed El Gallego Despotricando; the writer and contributor to certain sites Carlos Paz, or Alberto Gonzalo de Juan, leader of the radical musical group Pugilato, who has already been sentenced to a year in prison with Eduardo Clavero, of the group Batallón de Castigo, after a concert. Many of his co-religionists come from the now defunct Bastión Frontal and Hogar Social Madrid.
From the start, the approximately 240 agents of the Police Intervention Unit (UIP) deployed in Ferraz last Saturday were more than sufficient (“We could have covered it with fewer troops,” say those who were there) and they were already expecting this to happen. end with charges: “From the beginning we knew they would not arrive peacefully. “We could hear them commenting: ‘We’re going to keep the flags, because in two minutes the party will start.'” And so it was.
Pepper spray, bottles and stones
The security cordon prevented them from approaching more than 140 meters from the socialist headquarters, but the fight in Ferraz and the surrounding area broke out around ten thirty in the evening, with the throwing of fences. As ABC previously reported, even though the neo-Nazis did not carry conventional weapons, they pepper sprayed citizens and journalists who, surprised by the crowd, took refuge in a bar. “Moreover, they used the flagpoles, bottles and stones they took from the street to attack us,” explains another man in uniform, who acknowledges that it is “a false myth” that the far right is not aggressive towards security forces: “We have always hated it as much or more than the far left. “Just look at what happens in many football matches.”
Of these 2,000 people, there were between 500 and 700 outside of the riots. But about 1,300 or 1,500 people belonged to the national core or “sympathized with them, with fascist songs and greetings, without ever hiding what they were.” In fact, on April 14, when NN organized an event at the Espacio Ardemáns, a place on the street of the same name, in La Guindalera (Salamanca), its supporters were already around 200. Of course, the expert police in groups violent with extreme ideology let’s talk about fifty active violent members. At their beginnings, they defined themselves as “a new patriotic movement of civil insurrection”, born in the midst of the amnesty law. The conversion this spring into the National Core aimed to unify all far-right national ideologies (Falangists, Francoists, National Socialists, etc.), indicates the National Police.
Then they began to circulate on social networks (the organization itself and its most prominent members have a website, Telegram groups, profiles on X, Instagram) and proselytize to everyone who was aware of the “destruction suffered by the Nation”.
