The prosecution is asking for sentences of up to ten years and eight months in prison for two men from Lleida accused of spreading messages on social networks that encouraged attacks against immigrants, homosexuals or the disabled, in the first trial against white supremacists to be held in Spain.
The Lleida Court will judge the two supremacists next Thursday, W.R.P. and C.A.L., whom the prosecutor’s office accuses of hate crimes in addition to possession of weapons and drug trafficking for the marijuana that they allegedly grew in a farmhouse where they tried to set up a “militia”, the newspaper El País reported this Monday.
According to the public ministry in its letter, to which the Efe agency has had access, between the years 2018 and 2020 the accused C.A.L., who faces ten years and eight months in prison, and W.R.P., who faces five years and ten months , they agreed to disseminate material on social networks and internet forums that denigrated non-white, non-heterosexual, disabled people or people from areas outside Europe.
In their messages, the accused defended the need to “exterminate” these types of people and expressed their admiration for terrorists such as Brenton Tarrant, the Australian who attacked two mosques in Christchurch (New Zealand) in 2019, and Anders Breivik, the ultra that in 2011 killed 77 people in Norway in two attacks.
One of the accused wrote and distributed a manifesto entitled “A heroic life project” in which, after warning of the collapse that was going to occur due to the increase in non-European people, he invited people to retire to rural areas to be self-sufficient and self-sufficient, living of drug trafficking, until the time came to go on the offensive and “reverse the situation,” adds the public ministry.
The same defendant created a Telegram channel, to which 850 users joined, in which he shared his manifesto and defended returning all non-whites “to their region of origin” and for Europeans to meet “with a vitalist spirit” in a rural environment to establish a “militia-like” community. “Prepare for any type of system collapse or scenario that it presents to us, including hypothetical race wars. We are racist,” his comments read.
The accused, the indictment adds, encouraged people to commit other crimes to achieve self-sufficiency and to use weapons and explosives or perpetrate “offensive” actions against people they believed to be inferior. The other accused also created a Telegram channel in which he stated that people considered inferior “deserved the most infamous death”, called for their annihilation and warned that he was going to “die killing” because of his ideology.
The accused, the prosecution maintains, created a “small residential nucleus” in a farmhouse in Lleida, where they dedicated themselves to the cultivation of cannabis: in the entry and search carried out by the police, almost a kilo of marijuana was seized, in addition to five grams of ketamine. They also seized a revolver, an imitation blunderbuss classified as a prohibited weapon, a sword classified as a regulated weapon, two machetes and a tool with a glass breaking punch owned by C.A.L., which did not have any type of license. The public ministry requests fines exceeding 126,000 euros for each of the accused.
