November 22, 2009

Twenty-eight arrests at Spanish event attended by BNP's Griffin

Spanish police Saturday detained 28 members of a far-right party who tried to disrupt an event held by a rival far-right group attended by British National Party leader Nick Griffin at a Madrid hotel.

The detained are all members of Spain's far-right Patriotic Socialist Movement and they were arrested after they attacked doormen at the hotel who were trying to prevent them from entering, a police spokesman said. Four people were lightly injured in the scuffle but did not require medical care, he added.

The National Democracy Party which staged the event said it had requested police protection because of fears that far-left groups might try to disrupt it as has happened in the past.

It was not immediately clear why members of the Patriotic Socialist Movement tried to disrupt the event, which featured in addition to Griffin, the leader of Italian far-right party Forza Nuova, Roberto Fiore, and National Democracy leader Manuel Canduela.

In June Griffin and another BNP member won seats in the European Parliament elections, a first for the party which advocates the voluntary repatriation of immigrants. It has no seats in the national parliament.

AFP

7 comments:

wogerino said...

The "Patriotic Socialist Movement" appears to be one of those small groups of confused youth who mix Fascist with Left-wing ideas and subsequently are hostile towards the more conventional purely Right-wing Fascists. These misguided and confused youths come to the realization that fascist ideology is just so contrary to human decency that they have to mix in some progressive thoughts and support for truely just struggles in the third world in order to make their fascism somewhat less repulsive.

NewsHound said...

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/11/22/four-arrests-after-protest-91466-25223823/

BREAKING NEWS: - FOUR NAZIS ARRESTED IN WALES!

Anonymous said...

hahaha

why are they fighting ?

Anonymous said...

According to the Telegraph website (I know) Griffin may have visited Franco's tomb. If true then you'd think the mainstream parties could make some capital out of Griffin paying homage to an ally of that mad bloke from Austria who dropped quite a few bombs on Barking.

GeeBee said...

..."they have to mix in some progressive thoughts and support for truely just struggles in the third world in order to make their fascism somewhat less repulsive".

Reminds me of BNP "refuse-Nick" Sharon Ebanks whose website supports Oxfam and talks about third world debt while being a racist, self-loathing idiot!

Anonymous said...

Nazis fighting nazis.

It's a weird world, lol.

In the times of hitler, didn't adolf have rival fascists executed???

Anonymous said...

"If true then you'd think the mainstream parties could make some capital out of Griffin paying homage to an ally of that mad bloke from Austria who dropped quite a few bombs on Barking."

Not to mention one or two on Guernica.