National Nucleus, the hooded "savior-of-the-country" extremists who call for action "against the foreign invasion."

MadridAround fifteen men wearing black balaclavas, wearing neo-Nazi aesthetics, with their arms crossed over their chests and standing in formation behind a spokesperson are featured in the video that the Civil Guard has been investigating since Tuesday as a hate crime. It was broadcast Sunday night on X by the far-right organization Núcleo Nacional, which the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has targeted eight months after allowing them to register as a legal association. In the video, the hooded spokesperson for Núcleo Nacional calls for the "active defense" of the state's streets "against foreign invasion," as Marlaska denounced in a media address on Wednesday morning, criticizing the "unnecessary" existence of these "saviors of the country."

"These kinds of demonstrations and the scenery used in this video remind us of very dark and difficult times," lamented Marlaska, who emphasized that the results of this investigation will be made available to the Prosecutor's Office due to the "manifest gravity" of the "aggressive" and "intolerant" discourse displayed. The recording ends with a "Spain arrives and Europe arrives" and a fascist salute. Núcleo Nacional also directly calls on other organizations to join the "battle royale" in the streets with the goal of preventing "Spain from continuing to become a dunghill." "Anyone who doesn't join will be branded by us as a complete coward and a fucking crybaby," they warn.

What is Núcleo Nacional? It is a far-right organization that emerged from protests against the amnesty law in front of the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street in Madrid. Its ideology is openly racist and promotes the "protection of our race and culture" as well as "Christian values and traditions" and "traditional family units." "Núcleo Nacional is 'very bad and very Nazi,' but we are being ethnically replaced and without Spaniards, Spain will disappear," they argued in a message to X three months ago. They have been linked to violent actions, such as the attack last May on the pro-Palestinian encampment at Complutense University, according to a publication published by the organization. ABC.

Members of this group stormed the campus shouting anti-Semitic slogans, making threats, and vandalizing pro-Palestine banners. Three extremists from a group skin integrated into Núcleo Nacional ended up being arrested. In November of last year, on the first anniversary of the Ferraz protests, they called a demonstration that also ended with clashes with security forces and two arrests. However, since August 8, 2024, Núcleo Nacional has been legally registered as an association, something that was denounced by ERC in a document filed in Congress in November.

Without "indications of criminal wrongdoing"

The Republicans questioned the authorization to register "a neo-Nazi organization with a history of police investigation for its possible links to hate crimes and illegal activities." "This fact raises well-founded concerns regarding the government's ability to legally curb and sanction groups that spread anti-democratic ideologies," warned ERC. The Ministry of the Interior responded that at the time of registration, "there was no legal reason that would have prevented it." The Ministry of the Interior argued that its purposes did not reveal "indications of criminal wrongdoing," nor were there any police reports on actions that "would have been decisive in referring the case" to the Prosecutor's Office.