Spanish police on Saturday announced the arrest of three men they said ran the Spanish section of “one of the most influential neo-Nazi websites” in the world.
The arrests were in Barcelona, Tarragona and Saragossa, all in the northeast of the country, said a police statement.
The aim of the website is to “propagate anti-Semitic, homophobic and racist hate messages on the Internet among Spanish-speaking followers,” the statement added.
Police said they had tracked down to Switzerland “the leader and ideologue of this section, a Spanish citizen considered a leading international neo-Nazi, with a network of more than 50,000 subscribers.”
The suspects, aged from 21 to 23, had used false identities and servers based abroad to try to avoid detection, said the statement.
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Spanish police collaborated with their Swiss counterparts and the European police agency Europol to track them down.
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