The judge of the National Court Antonio Piña has proposed to try the “leader” of a cell in Spain of the white supremacist terrorist organization called The Base. This is David Dionis, a 25-year-old from Onda (Castellón), accused of having carried out “a continuous task of recruitment and indoctrination in the ideological postulates” of said terrorist organization. The instructor describes him as a person with an “extremist and violent ideology” who worked for what they call “the struggle for white succession.”
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Dionis was arrested last December by order of the judge as part of an operation that, according to the Ministry of the Interior, involved the dismantling of the first accelerationist terrorist cell established in Spain. Accelerationism is a current that emerged within far-right groups, promoting the idea of creating chaos through terrorism to accelerate the collapse of the system and thus make an extreme sociopolitical change inevitable. Among their enemies are antifascist groups; migrants; LGTBI, Muslim, and Jewish communities; and members of the security forces and rulers who, according to them, have betrayed their ideas.
In the resolution in which the prosecution is agreed, to which this newspaper has had access, the judge states that Dionis has carried out “training tasks for third parties”; specifically, through “tactical training with various types of weapons.” And as he emphasizes, he has done so in the surroundings of his town, Onda. The instructor also highlights that the young man has made an “abnormal stockpile of various types of weapons and harmful objects,” as well as clothing, combat medical material, and paramilitary material. For the instructor, this stockpile “has not remained in mere storage” of bladed weapons, but he has carried them in public, which constitutes “a serious danger to security added to his radicalism and violence.”
Piña adds, in turn, that there is sufficient evidence to try Dionis ―who has previous arrests for violent and hate crimes― for directing this cell through a Telegram channel, which has already been deleted, where guidelines and objectives of the organization were disseminated. In this messaging network, he spread The Base’s ideology of hate “with the aim of recruiting and influencing” people to join the terrorist group.
The “right hand” of the “leader”
Within the framework of the resolution, the judge of the National Court also proposes to try Jesús Estrada Lozano, alleged member of The Base and “right hand” of Dionis. According to the instructor, he was aware that the group’s acts had “legal and criminal consequences.” Piña considers that there is “reliable evidence” that the accused allegedly participated in the “paramilitary trainings” and even posed alongside the cell leader “displaying the organization’s flag and weapons.”
The judge explains that the evidence against both accused comes from various sources: the material seized from them during the investigation; the confiscated weapons; the contacts recorded with the organization’s leader, Rinaldo Nazzaro, who allegedly now resides in Russia; and reports from an “infiltrated computer agent” in the organization who pointed to Dionis as its “responsible” in Spain.
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