Vito Quiles’ show at Complutense ends with a threatened teacher, a swastika and fascist greetings: “We have entered” | Instruction

On Wednesday, the police literally stormed the Somosaguas campus of the Complutense University to avoid incidents during the unauthorized visit of the agitator Vito Quiles. He managed to ensure that there were no serious problems, like those that occurred in Pamplona, ​​​​but he was unable to prevent seven or eight exponents of the far right from entering the Political Sciences building at the last moment, where scenes of great tension occurred, as we learned on Thursday. A teacher was threatened, there were fascist greetings, Nazi writings and posters on the floor. Police have identified four, according to the principal’s office. They performed in two groups.

The faculty released a statement denouncing the acts of vandalism: “we reiterate, as indicated in our statement yesterday, the condemnation of the inappropriate use of the faculty and our university campuses for purposes other than academic reflection, scientific debate and the exchange of ideas that contribute to the strengthening of knowledge, democracy and society as a whole.”

The most serious accident involved a teacher. He heard a lot of noise because the attackers tore down all the posters that supported Palestine, interculturality or gender equality. He stuck his head out of his office and was so panicked that he double locked himself. The far right tried to open the door. He called a colleague, but when he arrived they had already left. The teacher does not want to speak to the press, but has asked the principal to spread the news.

Right-wing extremists scratched six mirrors. On one they drew the symbol of the Autonomous Bases – a neo-Nazi and anarcho-fascist organization that operated in Spain from 1983 to the mid-1990s – and the phrase: “We have entered”. And in another mirror appears a swastika and the phrase: “Long live Franco. Death to the reds”. Even the word “reds” as a synonym for communists was often heard among the participants of the previous demonstration. They also took a banner like the one that had presided over the protest of the students against Quiles: “Fascists out of the university”.

The attackers also scolded a group that was giving the fascist salute and hoisting the Francoist flag in class. They acted like this when the professor went to warn the doormen of the presence of the intruders. No one could be in the building that Wednesday night who wasn’t a teacher or student. They betrayed themselves with Quiles’ classic and posh aesthetic, very far from what is usually seen in Politics.

During the show de Quiles, a hundred meters from the only authorized entrance to the campus, many of those present, around two hundred in total, sang the anthem of the Spanish Falange of JONS, the Face the sun. The police removed an employee from the group because he was carrying a flag of the Spanish Thirds with the Burgundian cross, closely linked to Carlism. Quiles reprimanded the officers for this action. This flag is not illegal, like the Francoist flag from which Quiles dissociates himself. In an interview a week ago he described them as “the chicken ones”.

This is not the first incident of fascist vandalism this year. The student union Juventudes Falangistas de España destroyed the office door of Joaquín Urías, professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Seville, last March. A graffiti read “The Valley (of the Fallen) has not been touched”, along with the signature and several stickers with messages such as “God with us”. The attack came after a tweet from Urías, “I want them to also blow up the cross in the Valley of the Fallen with dynamite” in response to another from the pseudo-union Hazte Oír.

The rectorate has spent 80,000 euros this year alone on graffiti cleaning, anti-graffiti protection and maintenance of the facades and monuments of the UCM campuses and centers, according to the accounts published on its website.