On Thursday afternoon, before the Health match, Fuerza Gorri made an appearance in front of the Sadar football stadium in Pamplona (Navarre). In fact, a member has been fined 60,000 euros because of a message posted by the group on social networks against Zionism. Specifically, Fuerza Gorri denounced Shon Weissman of the Granada team in this publication, in which the player made a criminal call to kill the Palestinians by shooting.

Gorrik recalls the facts: "October 7, 2023. Israel has launched a new offensive in Gaza that has claimed more than 70,000 lives. The 8th of October. The Zionist football player from Granada, Shon Weissman, has posted a tweet asking him to shoot at the heads of unarmed Palestinians and has given it to other tweets that I like, asking them to bomb Gaza with 200 tons; without warning, just delete it."

On the occasion of Weissman Sahar's performance, the Gorri Force wrote the following message on October 15, 2023: "Weissman out, destroy Zionism-Fascism." The match between Granada and Salud took place five days later in Pamplona, but the Zionist player did not attend, citing "security reasons". That day, Sadar was filled with proclamations for Palestine.

Member of the Red Force, arrested last year

Several months later, on June 3, 2024, a member of the Red Force was arrested by the police. He was not told the reason for his arrest, but was told that it was because of a message broadcast on social media by Fuerza Gorrik, which he described as a "xenophobic and hateful message". It is detailed on Thursday that this person was charged with "a hate crime against the Jewish people," but the case was closed in October of that year.

However, in April of this year, the member arrested last year received a huge fine: Accused of writing a protest against Weissman and Zionism, he has been fined 60,000 euros under the so-called "Anti-Racism and Xenophobia Act". "Here is the result," Gorri summed up at today's press conference: "To justify the genocide of the Palestinian people on a social network: 0 euros. 0 euros. Denouncing and fighting the genocide itself: 60,000 euros."

82 arrests and fines of 174,000 euros against the Red Force

In addition to reporting on this horrific recent fine, Fuerza Gorri has revealed what is the "repressive balance" of the last two seasons: "82 arrests, four police operations, 331 fines worth 174,000 euros and a 42-year ban on going to football fields." The group believes that not all of them are "casual": "It is the price of organizing a political stand; of preventing the Zionists from entering the Sahara, of making political demands on the stands, of aligning with Palestine and of resisting fascism in the streets."

He claims, therefore, that the final fine suffered goes beyond being a punishment imposed on a person. He believes that with this they are "attacking a whole hobbit," that this is a "direct attack on freedom of expression," and that they are targeting "solidarity with the Palestinian people."

“Where they see a fine of 60,000 euros, we see 60,000 more reasons to keep fighting,” they proclaim anyway. In this way, they will start a complaint campaign to be able to fight the fine mainly: contributions can be made in the link labur.eus/60000arrazoi.