The joint-operation was part of a wider investigation which started one year ago with the arrest of two men in the Spanish regions of Catalonia and Valencia. Two men have been arrested as part of a year-long investigation, for financing the arming of a future “race war” through drug trafficking, Spanish police said on Sunday. Regional police in Catalonia and Spanish Civil Guards said the two men intended to form “isolated white supremacist groups” and were involved in financing these groups through drug trafficking. The joint-operation was part of a wider investigation which started one year ago with the arrest of two men in the Spanish regions of Catalonia and Valencia. The new arrests ordered by Catalan authorities were made in Malaga and Navarra. According to authorities the group was enhancing its armed capacity to prepare for what they called a “racial war”.
via republicworld: Two Linked To White Supremacist Groups Arrested In Spain
siehe auch: Two arrested in Spain for selling drugs to buy weapons for race war. Suspects planned to create ‘isolated white supremacist groups’, police say (…) The men, who have not yet been identified by police, had planned to use the money raised to purchase weapons and create “isolated white supremacist groups,” police said. Officers made the arrests in Ronda in Andalusia and Pamplona in northwestern Spain after tracking concerning messages posted online. Among the messages officers discovered were posts praising Brenton Tarrant, the Australian who shot 51 Muslim people dead in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March of last year. “In messages on the internet, they expressed the intention to get arms and prepare what they called a race war with the intention to carry out some form of attack,” police said in a statement.