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Propaganda photo of white supremacist terrorist organization The Base, taken at its training facility in Pennsylvania
A terrorist cell of the neo-Nazi and paramilitary group “The Base”, which calls for violent acts to cause chaos and overthrow regimes in democratic societies, has been dismantled in Spain, the Spanish police announced today.
The National Police dismantled the first character terrorist cellaccelerationist‘ detected in Spain”, in the province of Castellón, region of the Valencian Community, in the east of the country, according to a statement released this Monday.
‘Accelerationism’ is a current associated with far right and movements that defend white supremacy who asks for a “acceleration” of chaos to overthrow the existing order, through attacks.
During the police operation, three people detained who were part of the “supremacist organization”, born in the United States in 2018, which has “an ‘accelerationist’ character” and is “considered terrorist in the European UnionCanada, United Kingdom and New Zealand”, according to the same statement.
The three detainees are accused of “belong to a terrorist organization and capture, indoctrination and training for terrorist purposes”, as well as illegal possession of weapons.
According to , the detainees intensified their radical rhetoric in recent months and encouraged violent actionseven going so far as to openly declare that they were prepared to carry out targeted attacks with the aim of overthrow western democratic institutions.
In addition to the arrests, the police seized nine weapons, ammunition, “more than a score of bladed weapons”, a “complete military tactical equipment used in training activities”, “material and documentation of an ‘accelerationist’ and supremacist nature”, propaganda from the organization ‘The Base’, “neo-nazi material” and “documentation glorifying other terrorist organizations.”
“The leader of the Spanish cell was in direct contact with the founderr from ‘The Base,’” an American who U.S. authorities think they are in Russia and that, underlined by the Spanish police, “a month ago he made an appeal for the consolidation of cells spread across several countries and the carrying out of selective attacks with the aim of collapsing Western democratic institutions”.
According to the police, the three detained in Spain were “highly radicalizedbased their lifestyle on the postulates of the terrorist organization and the willingness to carry out an attacks”, having already done “several tactical training using paramilitary techniques and material”.
The Spanish police recalled that the organization “The Base” wants to “achieve the objective of a white supremacy through terrorism” and “operates as a decentralized network” of “small operating cells.”
The Spanish police investigation had start in early 2025when agents specialized in counterterrorism and combating radicalism detected an individual highly radicalizedaligned with the supremacist principles of the terrorist group, says El País.
It was then discovered that it was a cohesive cell composed of two other highly radicalized individuals, whose lifestyle was based on the precepts of the terrorist organization.
According to the North American police and Europol, the leader and founder of “The Base” is the North American Rinaldo Nazzaroand the first references to the organization were known in 2018.
In 2020, El País already stops “danger that will survive Trump“, which counts activists from The Base among its most loyal supporters — who, says the Spanish newspaper, resort to conspiracy theorists or paramilitary groups to fuel their aggression.
Members of the organization were responsible, according to US authorities, for acts of vandalism against synagogues in the country in 2019 and other activities with terrorist purposes in the following years, also in the United States.
According to , the organization, controlled from Russiais classified by the FBI as a “violent extremist group racially motivated” that seeks to “incite a racial war to establish an ethnic state branco“.
Europol and Eurojust have also coordinated international operations that had cells from this group as targets, and suspects were arrested in several countries, including Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Lithuania, Romania and Italy. The European Union integrated the organization into list of terrorist organizations em 2024.
