A RADICAL extreme far-right group based in Madrid has hurled firebombs at the city's main mosque and hung a banner on its wall reading: “Today Brussels, tomorrow Madrid?”
The 'Ramiro Ledesma social centre', as the organisation calls itself, made no secret of its responsibility for the attack, which it dubs as a 'campaign against radical Islam'.
It is said to be one of the most active extreme-right groups in the capital, and has staged lock-ins in buildings in protest over immigration and Islam, and once set up a food distribution drive for the poor and needy 'only for Spanish people'.
Members targeted the so-called M-30 Mosque, which takes its name from the outer suburban motorway that runs past it.
To champion their actions, the 'Ramiro Ledesma' posted a photo of the burning mosque under the Twitter hashtag #TerroristsWelcome, a word-play on the much-followed site #RefugeesWelcome which supports asylum-seekers fleeing the war in Syria being given a safe haven in Europe.
They added a comment on the post referring to the fact that it was Paris targeted by terrorists first, then Brussels, and that 'tomorrow it could be Madrid'.
According to their Twitter posts, the attack on the M-30 was not just in response to the recent bomb blasts at Brussels' Zaventem airport and Maalbeek metro station, but was also 'against the mosque itself'.
They accuse it of financing the so-called 'Islamic State', or DAESH, and wrote: “Get mosques out of Europe.”
Just three months ago, the 'Ramiro Ledesma' hurled firebombs at the door of the PP government headquarters on the C/ Génova in Madrid whilst the party was analysing the general election ballot box results, and shouted, “Arriba España,” a pro-Franco slogan which translates as 'Up Spain', but carries a very different, extreme nationalist meaning.
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