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28 arrested as Nick Griffin speaks in Madrid
By h.b. - Nov 22, 2009 - 9:01 AM
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Two far right groups came to blows outside the Velázquez Hotel in the capital
28 people were arrested in Madrid on Saturday when two far right groups came to blows outside the hotel Velázquez in the city.
All the arrests were from the far right collective Patriotic Socialist Movement, who were trying to break up a meeting being held inside the hotel by the D.N., Democracia Nacional group.
The meeting had invited the Euro MP and leader of the British Nationalist Party, Nick Griffin, to talk, along with Roberto Fiore from Forza Nuova and Manuel Canduela from the DN.
The Democracia Nacional group had asked for police protection to, as they put it, ‘avoid the usual violent episodes that so called anti-system groups arrange every time the DM or its president carries out any act’.
Statements were taken from those arrested at the headquarters of the Police Provincial Information Brigade.
Several people needed medical attention after the riot.
A Spokesman for Nick Griffin told the Daily Telegraph that he ‘may’ have made a visit to Franco’s tomb at the Valley of the Fallen.
Friday the 20th was the 34th anniversary of Franco’s death.