The Police literally took over the Somosaguas campus of the Complutense University this Wednesday to avoid incidents. They managed to ensure that there were no serious problems, like those that occurred in Pamplona, but they were not able to prevent seven or eight far-rightists from entering the Political Sciences building at the last minute, where scenes of great tension took place, as it became known this Thursday. A teacher was threatened, there were fascist salutes, Nazi graffiti and posters on the ground. They performed in two groups.
The faculty has issued a statement in which it denounces the acts of vandalism: “we reaffirm, as we indicated in our statement yesterday, in the condemnation of the inappropriate use of the faculty and our university campuses for purposes other than academic reflection, scientific debate and the exchange of ideas that contribute to the strengthening of knowledge, democracy and society as a whole.”
The most serious incident involved a teacher. He heard a lot of noise because the attackers tore down all the posters that came across in support of Palestine, interculturalism or gender equality. He stuck his head out of his office and felt so panicked that he double-locked himself. The far-right tried to open its door. He called a colleague, but when he arrived they had already left. The teacher does not want to speak to the press, but has asked the dean’s office to spread the news.
The far-rightists scratched six mirrors. On one they drew the symbol of Autonomous Bases – a neo-Nazi and anarcho-fascist organization that operated in Spain from 1983 to the mid-90s – and the phrase: “We have entered.” And in another mirror, a swastika appears and the phrase: “Long live Franco. Death to the reds.” The word “reds” as a synonym for communists was also heard a lot among those attending the previous rally. They also took a banner like the one that had presided over the protest by the students who opposed Quiles: “Fascists out of the university.”
The attackers also rebuked a group that was in a class making fascist salutes and taking out the Francoist flag. They acted like this when the professor went to notify the janitors of the presence of the intruders. That Wednesday evening, no one could be in the building without being a teacher or student. They gave themselves away with Quiles’s classic and posh aesthetic, very far from what is usually seen in Politics.
During the show de Quiles, separated a hundred meters from the only entrance enabled to the campus, many of those present, around two hundred in total, sang the anthem of the Spanish Falange of the JONS, the Face the sun. The Police removed an assistant from the group for carrying a flag of the Spanish Thirds with the Cross of Burgundy, closely linked to Carlism. Quiles reproached the agents for this action. This banner is not illegal, like the Francoist flag from which Quiles dissociates himself. In an interview a week ago he described them as “chicken ones.”
The student union Juventudes Falangistas de España destroyed the door of the office of Joaquín Urías, professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Seville, this March. A graffiti read “The Valley [de los Caídos] it is not touched”, along with the signature, and several stickers with messages such as “God with us”. The attack came after a tweet by Urías, ―”I also want them to dynamit the cross of the Valley of the Fallen”― in response to another from the pseudo union Hazte Oír.
I thank the Youth of the Spanish Falange for the dialogue on what to do with the Valley of the Fallen.
I suppose that if you defend such obsolete ideas you don’t have a cell phone and you resort to hooded people painting an office.
Still, I confirm: the cross should be dynamited.
Greetings.— Joaquín Urías (@jpurias)
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