The Chilean Secretary of the Interior began today prosecution of the neo-Nazi National Syndicalist Revolutionary Movement (MRNS) when the movement ignored a government order to dissolve by May 15.
Jamie Silva. Undersecretary of the Ministry, said the action had been started to compel respect for constitutional and legal rules barring activities of organizations with armed members. The Ministry filed action with the Court of Appeals under the Law of Internal Security of the state.
Fran Pfeifer, organizer in October 1953, of a smaller neo-Nazi group, the National Socialist party, accepted the Government’s dissolution decree. Ramon Caliz, who founded the MRNS 12 years ago, said that the movement had 5,000 members throughout Chile. He called the trials of former Nazis for war crimes in West Germany “savagery, a new Inquisition.”
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