The radicals are financed with common crimes, such as the Boixos Nois, detained by the National Police
Around the corner a collection of medals, flags and other Nazi props can be kept, guarded by a violent individual who joins others who defend the same postulates of hatred towards those who think or look different. They are displayed at sports or political rallies, with flags that paint the motto: “Adolf Hitler was right”, or SS medals, imitation and original. This week one of these ultra organizations, the Boixos Nois, has been dismantled. At first it was a radical group more related to soccer. The 14 detainees were 15 years ago kids who lived off their parents and were active in marginal organizations in peripheral cities, in this case Sabadell. “In Spain and Europe, both the extreme left and the extreme right use sport as a platform for the dissemination of hate messages and their ideological postulates,” explains a source from the National Police, specialized in the control and monitoring of violent extremism.
The authorities keep them under surveillance. They know who joins, where they move. They follow them for years. Ideology is not a crime, nor is it a crime to carry Nazi flags or those of other genocidal regimes. “We act when we see that they go wrong, create a problem of public order or that may subvert the constitutional order or they start criminal activity.” The methods of this control are kept in reserve by a secret intelligence unit, but they are imaginable.
Upon reaching adulthood, and with no other trade than bullying, the violent seek to pay for their ideological activities, which is the great glue that unites group members, through the illegal sale of drugs, the exploitation of women forced into prostitution or drug trafficking, from cannabis cultivation to retail. Illicit that are only branches that come from the root of hatred. Hostility and violence are other aspects of the followers of radical extremism.
Thus they cost their ideological activities. Recently the Boixos Nois (crazy boys, in Spanish) went to Valencia, Lyon and Seville “to stick with other ultras” and to neo-Nazi concerts. They bought cars and houses, financed trips and stays around the soccer calendar and spread their hateful messages, indicates the source of the National Police. «Football is a platform of brutal hatred. It goes from the shouting in the parties to the digital forums, where they are very active ”.
In the case of the Barcelona group that was beheaded this week, the leaders began in a group from Sabadell, they became “very active in the political moment of the neo-Nazi far-right in Catalonia” and “they are Spanishists,” says a source related to the arrest of the Boixos Nois. They are fans of FC Barcelona, they buy weapons and they were members of the Republican Social Movement (MSR), a Nazi group dismantled three years ago. The background and cohesion of criminal activity is always ideological, “all compatible.” It is the same with those on the other side of the spectrum, the one on the far left.
Ends that come together
Although in broad strokes the ultra rivalry could be divided between republicans and communists versus fascists and neo-Nazis, the question is not so simple. «In Falangism there are different branches and in Fascism the Italians and the Nationalists. There are those who are only Franco supporters. While on the other side are the communists under the influence of their different leaders (Marx, Stalin-Lenin or Trotsky) and the anarchists. The ultra-left goes more than the multicultural, while the ultra-right watch only for the Spanish ”, explains the expert. In Catalonia, in addition, within all these categories there are independentists and Spanishists.
Political movements feed back on this wisdom of harassment. The profile, from right to left, coincides: «People who are very ideologically convinced, who have sucked it since they were little, very disciplined and hierarchical on the extreme right. Men and women who are always looking for an external culprit.
With an “audience” sufficient to exist but “not worrisome” to create “social alarm as in other countries,” supremacism is racial, religious, ideological. The Nazis are anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers. But there are also those who consider that the “white race is superior”, those who hate the poor, homosexuals and those who think differently. Those of the extreme right, the communists. Those on the far left, the fascists and Nazis. They also hate Catholicism, which is the “European” identity of their rivals. And yet they have similarities. They are nihilists, all of them. They hate authority and the state. They are anti-system by nature, they believe that the rest of the people are wrong and that they want to put them in a world of sheep.
The organization dismantled this week had a pyramidal structure, with well-established hierarchies. Chiefs, lieutenants, militants of the hard core, explains the expert. Then they orbit “specialists” for drugs, the occupation of houses, the manipulation of meters, the subjugation of prostituted women, the surveillance of their businesses. “There are the leaders, their praetorian guard and those who do the dirty work,” says the source. Those puppies are still on the street, under surveillance.
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