Grupos Armados Españoles

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]

Spanish Armed Groups
Grupos Armados Españoles (Spanish)
LeaderUnknown
Dates of operationc. 1979c. 1980
MotivesOpposition to separatism, communism and democracy
Active regions Spain (Basque Country)
IdeologyNeo-fascism
Spanish nationalism
Vasco-phobia
Political positionFar-right
Notable attacksAlonsotegi bombing
StatusInactive
SizeUnknown
Spanish Armed Groups
Grupos Armados Españoles (Spanish)
LeadersUnknown
Dates of operationc. 1979c. 1980
MotivesOpposition to separatism, communism and democracy
Active regions Spain (Basque Country)
IdeologyNeo-fascism
Spanish nationalism
Vasco-phobia
Political positionFar-right
StatusInactive
SizeUnknown
AlliesBatallón Vasco Español
Alianza Apostólica Anticomunista
Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey
Acción Nacional Española
Antiterrorismo ETA
OpponentsBasque National Liberation Movement Communists and other leftists
Government of Spain
Battles and warsthe Basque Conflict

Attacks

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Attacks attributed to the Spanish Armed Groups:[a]

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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",[full citation needed] and criticized the impunity and lack of investigation about group actions.

Notes

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  1. ^ This list may be incomplete, because many of their attacks were never claimed. Additionally the acronyms GAE and others (Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey, Antiterrorismo ETA, Primera Línea de Fuerza Nueva, Batallón Vasco Español, Alianza Apóstolica Anticomunista, and later Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación and GANE) seem to have been indistinctly used by the same Spanish nationalist networks capriciously.

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