The Falangists intended to march through the center of Madrid next Sunday, but will not be able to do so, at least legally. The government delegation in the region disavowed the meeting called by the far right because, according to what was reported by the State Police, there are “well-founded reasons why there could be disturbances to public order, with danger to people or things”. The demonstration, called in the late afternoon, would have been the icing on the cake of a day of extremist meetings since the morning in which the leaders of the most ultra ultra parties in all of Europe met in the capital of Spain.
The Government Delegation recalls that the last far-right march held on Saturday 8 November in Madrid ended with police charges and riots in the Barrio de las Letras, with the arrest of three people and several containers set on fire in the heart of the city. “This episode demonstrates that far-right mobilizations have already produced serious alterations to public order,” says the government delegate, Francisco Martín, in a report sent to the Falangists to inform them of the reasons why he will not authorize their march. “The risk associated with the new tenders is not hypothetical, but demonstrated and verifiable,” he adds.
The procession, however, was supposed to end in via Ferraz, in front of the federal headquarters of the PSOE. There, at that very moment, the current far-right movement began to consolidate in the context of protests against the approval of the amnesty law for prisoners due to the Catalan secessionist trial in November 2023.
Now the situation is different. This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, which, for the government delegation, generates a “particular social sensitivity” towards this type of act. “There are objective and well-founded reasons to foresee that during the demonstration there may be speeches of hatred and express humiliation of the victims of Francoism, incitement to violence or glorification of the Francoist dictator”, justifies the government delegate.
To reject the appeal, the Government delegate refers to article 10 of Organic Law 9/1983 which regulates the right of assembly because he believes that there are no “less restrictive measures capable of guaranteeing the safety of people and property”.
This demonstration, scheduled for nine in the evening on Sunday, would be animated starting from ten in the morning by an event called Europe, great and free. This is a summit of nationalist and identity movements from across the continent that oppose the European Union, which they accuse of “destroying the identity” of the nations that compose it and, once again, the migrant will be pointed out as the culprit of “putting an end to the ethnic-racial substratum of the European people”. There you will see militants from parties such as Forza Nouva (Italy), Les Nationalistes (France), the ultra-British activist Nick Griffin and a “special Russian guest”, about whom they have not yet revealed anything, among other figures from that ideological spectrum.
