Most world leaders have remained silent on the death of Daria Dugina, daughter of Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin – considered the ideologue of Vladimir Putin – who died after the car in which he was traveling exploded. One of the few exceptions was the deputy secretary of Vox, Spanish extreme right, in Barcelona, Jordi de la Fuente. A few hours after the attack, he wrote a Twitter post that read only:
Rest in peace, warrior.”
THE The post was removed from social media almost immediately., but it was recorded by Xavier Rius Sant, a Catalan journalist and writer who has written a book with a detailed investigation of extreme right-wing circles in Catalonia. EITHER cheep was sent by the journalist to the Spanish newspaper El País, which refers to other connections of Jordi de la Fuente and the party itself with what is considered “Putin’s brain”.
The deputy secretary of the org of #vox Barcelona Jordi de la Fuente, who was the prologue writer for the books by Alexandr Dugin (Alexander Duguin) and defended his idea of Eurasia, deletes his twitter account, after a tweet paying tribute to Daria Dugina, father of Putin’s ideologue, signed yesterday pic.twitter.com/z6NIsLfQi0
– Xavier Rius Sant (@xrius1) August 21, 2022
Since then, Jordi de la Fuente is a declared admirer of Alexander Dugin. In October 2016, the strong man of Vox in Catalonia presented the book Un libro de Dugin, at the Casa Rusa in Barcelona, of which he himself wrote the prologue. Years before, in 2012, another book by Dugin had been published by Ediciones Nueva República, a publisher of the De la Fuente group, reports El País.
Vox’s own leader, Santiago Abascal, showed some sympathy for Vladimir Putin, in an interview with place Argentine Infobae at the end of July, five months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Putin is a character who opposes the stupidity of the left. But the fact that someone is right about something does not make them good at everything else,” said Abascal, who counts among his closest advisers the writer Fernando Sánchez Dragó, an admirer of Putin.
Source: Observadora
