The Falangists had intended to march through central Madrid next Sunday, but they will not be able to do so, at least legally. The government delegation in the region rejected the meeting called by the far-right because, according to national police reports, there were “good reasons for the possibility of disturbances in public order, with danger to persons or property.” The demonstration, called in the late afternoon, was the culmination of a day of extremist meetings since the morning as leaders of the most extreme parties from across Europe met in the Spanish capital.
The government delegation points out that the last far-right march organized on Saturday, November 8, in Madrid ended with police arrests and riots in Barrio de las Letras, the arrest of three people and the setting fire to several containers in the heart of the city. “This incident shows that the far-right mobilization has already brought about serious changes in public order,” says the government delegate, Francisco Martin, in a report sent to the Falangists informing them of the reasons for not allowing their march. “The risk associated with new calls is not hypothetical, but proven and verifiable,” he adds.
But the march was scheduled to end on Ferraz Street, in front of the federal headquarters of the Socialist Workers’ Party. There, at exactly that point, the current far-right movement began to strengthen in the context of protests against the passage of an amnesty law for prisoners due to the Catalan separatist operation in November 2023.
Now the situation is different. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, which, for the government delegation, generates a “special social sensitivity” towards this type of action. “There are objective and justified reasons to predict the possibility of hate speech, expression of humiliation of Franco’s victims, incitement to violence or glorification of the dictator Franco during the demonstration,” justifies the government delegate.
In rejecting the invitation, the government delegate relies on Article 10 of Basic Law No. 9 of 1983, which regulates the right to assembly, because he believes that there are no “less restrictive measures capable of ensuring the safety of persons and property.”
This demonstration, which was scheduled to begin at nine o’clock in the evening on Sunday, would heat up from ten o’clock in the morning with an event called Europe is great and free. It 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 countries that make it up, and, once again, the immigrant will be pointed out as the culprit in “ending the racial and racial caste of European people.” There you will see militants from parties such as Forza Nuova (Italy), the Nationalists (France), the British extremist activist Nick Griffin, and a “Russian special guest”, about whom they have not yet revealed anything, among other figures from this ideological spectrum.
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