A Vox politician has responded after allegedly being pictured with a Nucleo Nacional sticker on his laptop, sparking backlash.
It comes as the hard-right party works to distance itself from the neo-Nazi organisation following a police crackdown this week.
The image, obtained by elDiario.es and taken during a Catalan parliament session in June 2025, shows the computer belonging to Sergio Macian de Greef, Vox’s Tarragona president and a regional MP.
The party told the newspaper that the sticker represented the ‘Noviembre Nacional’ protests held outside the PSOE’s Madrid headquarters in 2023, rather than Nucleo Nacional.
‘He has had the sticker since 2023,’ the party said, adding that the organisation began operating in early 2024.
Macian de Greef also took to social media to dispute the claim that the sticker belonged to Nucleo Nacional.
He wrote: ‘This government, which gets a visit from the UCO every day, has nothing left but to resort to lying.
‘When those photos were taken, the logo was the one used in the protests at Ferraz against the infamous amnesty law you passed to cling to your seats in the Moncloa. What others did with it afterwards is none of our business.’
He added: ‘And, by the way, I’m not even a candidate in Tarragona on November 29. You don’t tell the truth even to your doctors.
‘A government that has brought death, corruption and poverty has nothing left but to stoke fear and fabricate lies.’
Macian de Greef is the second Vox regional MP reported to have displayed the symbol.
elDiario.es previously published an image of Ivan Sanchez, the party’s spokesperson in Castilla-La Mancha, with a similar sticker on his laptop.
The reports come after Vox leader Santiago Abascal insisted during an interview on La Revuelta on Monday: ‘We have nothing to do with them.’
Police arrested 14 Nucleo Nacional members on November 6, including senior figures, as part of an investigation into suspected hate offences, unlawful association and illegal weapons possession.
The investigating judge in Gijon said the organisation could be considered a ‘paramilitary association’, according to the newspaper’s account of the case file.
She alleged that its cultural and sporting activities concealed a hierarchical structure promoting hatred, discrimination and ideological violence.
On Thursday, the judge ordered the group to cease all activity, its premises in Madrid, Burgos and Valladolid to be closed, and its bank accounts and social media activity blocked.
According to the report, investigators uncovered discussions about possible attacks on mosques, synagogues and centres housing unaccompanied foreign minors.
The inquiry also examined alleged paramilitary training in Ukraine and contacts with far-right organisations elsewhere in Europe.
Nucleo Nacional emerged from the anti-amnesty protests outside the PSOE’s Ferraz headquarters in November 2023, began operating on Telegram in January 2024 and publicly launched that April.
Its best-known figures include Ivan Rico Olivares, former Democracia Nacional official Enrique Lemus and Isabel Peralta.
