The Lleida Court has scheduled for Thursday, January 18, the trial of the four people who were detained in La Pobla de Cérvoles (Lleida), Campello (Alicante), Ronda (Málaga) and Pamplona between September and December 2020 in an operation state-level police linked to alleged incitement to hatred against foreigners and glorification of racist terrorism, with messages praising the racist murder of 51 people in Christchurch (New Zealand) in 2019.
The prosecution accuses them of hate crimes, illegal possession of weapons and crimes against public health.
The public ministry requests penalties ranging from 2 years and 4 months to 3 and a half years in prison for each of the crimes. It also imposes fines on the defendants that in the largest cases reach 120,000 euros, as well as the prohibition of having weapons or practicing teaching professions, among others.
Specifically, the prosecutor’s office considers that some of the defendants defended white supremacy through the Internet or instant messaging channels with the publication of messages that “denigrated people for not being white, having a disability, professing certain religious beliefs or not. be Europeans, going so far as to ask for the extermination of some of them,” according to the indictment.
In fact, the police detected messages from the accused praising the supremacist murder of more than fifty people in Christchurch in 2019 or documents about Adolf Hitler.
Two of the defendants lived for a few months in two rural houses in La Pobla de Cérvoles to create, according to researchers, isolated and self-sufficient “white communities” in rural environments.
These groups had to stock up on weapons and prepare for what they called “the race war.”
According to the prosecutor, they had the help of another of the accused to obtain a property to develop a marijuana crop in the area, which would allow them to raise financial funds to materialize their supremacist plans.
The police intervened in the framework of the operation different weapons such as a sword, brass knuckles, machetes, knives or illegal ammunition.
