Marlaska accuses « ultra -right policies » of encouraging the recent dissemination of xenophobic videos | Spain
The Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has again accused « the policies and speeches of the ultra-right », without citing any party, of giving « pábulo » to Xenophobic speeches and encouraging its mass dissemination. The words of the Minister, pronounced this Wednesday during a visit to the facilities of the Security Forces at the Adolfo Suárez-Barajas airport, occur after his department announced on Tuesday that the Civil Guard had opened An investigation into the National Core Association, a racist group that last Monday he spread a video in his profile of the social network X in which he urged an « active defense » of the streets and « to a joint fight against the invasion. » « They seek the extinction of our race, our culture and most importantly, our nation, » he was governing this association in a recording in which a fortnight of its members appeared with a covered face.
Grande-Marlaska has referred precisely this Wednesday to the investigation opened by the Civil Guard and recalled that the result of the investigations will be sent to the Prosecutor’s Office of Crimes of Hate. « It really seems to me of a severity manifests the speech developed by the representative of the National Core Association in that video, » he said. The minister has stressed that « the scenery used reminds us of very black and very dark and very difficult times » and has lamented that, although before this type of speeches did not have « a social impact, because there was a manifest rejection », now it has it « unfortunately » for the attitude of the ultra -right.
Grande-Marlaka has assured that the Government will not allow it and that « it is going to respond. » In this case, with the investigation of the Armed Institute. And he recalled that security forces have been working for a long time so that these types of groups have not proliferated in Spain, which he has derogatoryly branded « lifeguards. » « There is a serious prevention work to prevent this type of groups, which what they put is at risk, healthy coexistence in democracy, so that they cannot have any predicament type, » he added.
It is not the first time that Grande-Marlaska loads in recent days against the speech of the ultra-right parties. Last week, During the presentation of the III Action Plan against Hate Crimeshe influenced the same idea by ensuring that « we live times where hatred disguises itself as legitimate discourse and where the extreme right intends to normalize discrimination with the false and manipulat promise to protect some supposed values and symbols. »
In fact, its department attributes precisely the decrease of about 14% in the number of complaints of these crimes registered in Spain last year – it has passed from the 2,268 criminal offenses known in 2024 to 1,955 in the following 12 months – to the messages with xenophobic dyes of some political parties that in recent years have normalized various hate discourses towards groups such as immigrants or minors Spain. Police experts point out that « social pressure » that these demonstrations mean « dissuading the complaint » to many victims.
