Grupos Armados Españoles Explained

Spanish Armed Groups
Leader:Unknown
Motives:Opposition to separatism, communism and democracy
Ideology:Neo-fascism
Spanish nationalism
Vasco-phobia
Position:Far-right
Attacks:Alonsotegi bombing
Status:Inactive
Size:Unknown
Spanish Armed Groups
War:the Basque Conflict
Status:Inactive
Ideology:Neo-fascism
Spanish nationalism
Vasco-phobia
Position:Far-right
Motives:Opposition to separatism, communism and democracy
Leaders:Unknown
Area: (Basque Country)
Size:Unknown
Allies:Batallón Vasco Español
Alianza Apostólica Anticomunista
Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey
Acción Nacional Española
Antiterrorismo ETA

The Grupos Armados Españoles (GAE) (English: Spanish Armed Groups) was a Spanish neo-fascist paramilitary organisation active from 1979 to 1980, primarily in the Basque Country. A report by the Office for Victims of Terrorism of the Basque Government in June 2010 attributed six murders to the group, and linked it to the National Police Corps, SECED and the Civil Guard.[1]

Attacks

Attacks attributed to the Spanish Armed Groups:

Alleged links with Francoist repression

The report of the Office of Victims of Terrorism of the Basque Government said that the GAE was a well organized group that "acted with a high level of tolerance, when no complicity with important sectors of the police apparatus of the time", and criticized the impunity and lack of investigation about group actions.

Notes and References

  1. (In Spanish) Las otras víctimas
  2. (In Spanish) El grupo de ultraderecha GAE reivindica el atentado de Baracaldo