00:00In Spain, political parties asked the Spanish Prosecutor's Office to investigate the neo-Nazi group Deport Them Now for racist acts in Catalonia, also to determine its links to the far-right party Vox. Let's look at the details with our correspondent Andres Flores.
00:18Deport Them Now is the name of one of the groups that participated and organized a hunt for migrants in Tor Pacheco, Spain. Its leader has been arrested in the province of Barcelona.
00:33These groups have been operating for a very long time in the area of evictions. We have seen them at the doors of houses, knocking, threatening families. These groups should have been banned a long time ago, but progressives and left-wing parties have considered them to be part of the democratic specter, which is really our concern today.
00:55They have all the institutional legitimacy that protects the impunity for these terrorist crimes that are being committed at this moment in many localities.
01:08The Commons asked the Prosecutor's Office to investigate the group for racist acts and its links to Vox. One of the driving forces behind the initiative is parliamentarian Andres Garcia.
01:19Over the last few months we have been witnessing an upflow of activity by far-right groups in Spain, and in Catalonia in particular.
01:29This is linked to the hate speech and incitement to hatred practiced by far-right political parties such as Vox or Alianza Catalana here in Catalonia.
01:38Expert activists point out that in many cases these groups operating on Telegram are the executors of policies designed by the far-right.
01:49This person, arrested for participating in this far-right group, was calmly talking to one of the councillors from Vox from his far-right group, and what's more, the Vox banner was at the head of the demonstration.
02:00What we are telling the prosecutor's office is that it must protect the citizens of Spain and Catalonia, because we are facing one of the major collective risks that all of Europe is currently facing, which is this type of attack against entire groups' systematic racist attacks.
02:23Dardo is a journalist specialising in the far-right, he proposes that the justice system investigate the economic and social network links between these groups and Vox.
02:33The issue is also who finances the European far-right, because large international monopolies have an interest in this happening.
02:43They are very active on social media especially because social media in general is very suitable for the far-right's rhetoric, which is based on lies.
02:50The leader of the extremist group remains in pretrial detention. In his court appearance, he claimed to have acted alone, but in the messages in which he called for the hunt, he uses the first-person plural, which could indicate that he did not act alone.
03:09Andres Flores, Telesur, Barcelona.
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