The Civil Guard takes the courts to the national ultra -core group for a crime of hate | Spain
The xenophobic video that The group of xenophobic and racist national core character He spread last week through his profile of social network X is already in court. The Civil Guard delivered last Tuesday afternoon in the Court of Guard and in the Prosecutor’s Office of Valladolid, where the association has its headquarters, two copies of the report that has been prepared on these images in which it points out that their authors have allegedly incurred a crime of hatred against immigrants, as he has advanced eldiario.es and has confirmed the country in fiscal sources and the armed institute. In this video, the Ultra Association – which had an active participation in the protests against the amnesty law that were held during the autumn of 2023 near the federal headquarters of the PSOE in the Madrid street of Ferraz – urged an “active defense” of the streets and “to a joint fight” of what they called of “invasion” of foreigners. « We invite all patriotic, or nationalist or football organizations or whatever (…) to collaborate in the preparation for the struggle of our streets, » a spokesman was governing in a recording in which a fortnight of its members appeared with a covered face.
The Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has referred this Tuesday to this investigation in an event held in Madrid to ensure that, in parallel to the judicial investigation, his department will act “from the administrative point of view”, since the registration of associations, where national core is registered, depends on the interior. « That everyone is clear that any fact or behavior that questions the peaceful coexistence in our society in Spain will be subject to precise and necessary research and the strongest response within the rule of law, » added Grande-Marlaska.
It is not the first time that the minister refers to this video. Last Wednesday, hours after his department announced the start of the investigation, he publicly described the message released by the Ultra Group of serious and stressed that « the scenery used reminds us of very black and very dark and very difficult times. » He also lamented that, although before this type of speeches did not have « a social impact, because there was a manifest rejection », currently he has « unfortunately » for the attitude of the ultra -right. Grande-Marlaska added that the government was not going to allow it and that it recalled that security forces have long worked in Spain for this type of groups in Spain, which it has derogatoryly branded “salvapatrias”. « There is a serious prevention work to prevent these types of groups, which what they put is at risk, healthy coexistence in democracy, so that they cannot have any predicament type, » he said.
Grande-Marlaska has charged in recent weeks on other occasions against the speech of the ultra-right parties. At the end of March, 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.
