Police in Spain have arrested three people suspected of belonging to the Base, a global neo-Nazi terrorist group that incites and trains members in techniques to overthrow governments and bring about race wars.
The group, which has been designated a terrorist organization by the European Union, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, is part of a worldwide “accelerationist” white power movement that prepares its cells to carry out violent and destabilizing attacks.
In a statement on Monday, Spain’s Policia Nacional said three arrests made in the eastern province of Castellón had enabled them to dismantle the first Accelerationist terrorist cell found in the country.
Officers seized two firearms, replica guns, ammunition, knives and tactical military training gear, as well as extremist material and neo-Nazi material.
All three are accused of being associated with a terrorist organization; recruiting, indoctrinating, and training for terrorist purposes; and illegal possession of weapons.
The cell’s investigation began earlier this year, when counter-terrorism and counter-radicalization officials caught sight of a man they described as “highly radicalized and associated with the base’s supremacist, terrorist beliefs.”
He then learned about the other two members of the cell and discovered that all three had undergone tactical training using paramilitary techniques and materials.
“Officers also established that those arrested used social media to recruit new members, praise the violent actions of other terrorist organizations and share extremist audiovisual material,” the police statement said.
It said that in recent months, the three have intensified their radical rhetoric, “promoting violent attacks and even openly disclosing that they were prepared to carry out selective attacks for this purpose”.
Police also determined that the leader of the Spanish cell was in direct contact with the base’s American founder, Reinaldo Nazzaro, who had recently called for the cell around the world to carry out attacks designed to bring about the collapse of Western democratic institutions.
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Authorities arrested three suspects on Tuesday 25 November, while also carrying out five searches in Castellón. A judge at Spain’s highest criminal court, the Audiencia Nacional, has ordered the cell’s leader detained.
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Base as “an anti-Semitic, white nationalist network that trains members in survivalism and paramilitary skills to prepare them to conduct armed resistance against the government”.
Accelerationism is a term used broadly to describe ideologies that seek to induce radical social change. In recent years, the label has gained support from the far right, which has used it to describe efforts to destabilize communities and democratic institutions through violence.
Nazzaro is a former Pentagon contractor and Department of Homeland Security analyst now based in Russia. He has been accused of being a Kremlin spy by alleged former members of the base.
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