The Army is investigating the legionnaires who cheered Vito Quiles when he shouted: “To the reds!”

The Army has opened an investigation to clarify the conduct of the legionnaires who appear in a video cheering the far-right activist Vito Quiles, while he shouts: “To the reds!” Military sources have indicated that the investigation was opened after learning of it this Tuesday. Quiles himself spread it through social networks, where he has hundreds of thousands of followers.

The scene corresponds to the moment when the activist boards the bus that was picking up the members of the Legion Brigade in the Plaza de Colón in Madrid who had participated in the National Holiday parade last Monday, to take them back to their base in Viator (Almería). In the images you can see how they chant the name of the activist and shout when he shouts “To the reds!”

The disciplinary code of the Armed Forces classifies as a serious offense “publicly holding demonstrations or expressing opinions that violate the duty of political or union neutrality” of the military. The sanctions provided for serious offenses are a financial sanction of eight to 15 days, arrest of 15 to 30 days or loss of destination." Once the previous information is completed, the Army must decide whether to open a disciplinary file against those involved, several of whom are identified in the video released by Quiles himself.