Police in Spain have arrested three people on suspicion of belonging to the Base, a global neo-Nazi terrorist group that incites and trains members in techniques to overthrow governments and bring about a race war[…]
In a statement on Monday, Spain’s Policía Nacional said the three arrests, made in the eastern province of Castellón, had enabled them to dismantle the first accelerationist terrorist cell detected in the country
Officers seized two firearms, replica guns, ammunition, knives and tactical military training gear, as well as accelerationist material and neo-Nazi paraphernalia
The trio are accused of belonging to a terrorist organisation; recruiting, indoctrinating and training for terrorist purposes; and illegal possession of weapons
The investigation into the cell started at the beginning of this year, when anti-terror and anti-radicalisation officers came across an individual whom they described as “very radicalised and aligned with the supremacist, terrorist beliefs of the Base”
They then learned of the other two members of the cell and discovered that the trio had undergone tactical training using paramilitary techniques and materials
“The officers also established that those arrested used social media to recruit new members, to praise the violent actions of other terrorist organisations and to share accelerationist audiovisual content,” the police statement said
Over recent months, it added, the trio had stepped up their radical rhetoric, “exhorting violent attacks and even openly revealing that they were prepared to wage selective attacks for the cause”
The police also determined that the leader of the Spanish cell had been in direct contact with the US founder of the Base, Rinaldo Nazzaro