On Sunday morning, around twenty people took part in a demonstration staged by the Núcleo Nacional neo-Nazi group in Palma's Sa Feixina Park. Held by the monument in the park, which was built to honour Nationalist seamen who died when their cruiser 'Baleares' was hit by Republican torpedoes during the Civil War, a spokesperson addressed "comrades, militants and ordinary Spaniards". "We are gathered here today to pay homage to men who remained true to certain values - honour, discipline, and service to the homeland. Values they lived to their fullest extent.
"These words mean nothing to those who today follow the doctrines of modernity brought about by the 1978 regime and the support of freemasonry, with its control by international elites. Those who feel no connection to any place as their homeland and whose concept of value is based solely on having money and power. Even if the monuments are torn down, the example remains in the hearts of Spaniards who refuse to let their homeland die and whose ideals are eternal."
By the Balearic Government's Consolat de la Mar headquarters, roughly ten times as many people attended a counter-demonstration. They protested against the presence of groups who "glorify the Francoist dictatorship and the Nazi regime" and demanded the demolition of the monument.
Although the numbers in the park were very low, a spokesperson said: "It doesn't matter if there are ten, one hundred, or five of them; this gang of neo-Nazis cannot be allowed to meet here." The existence of organized fascism "can never be good news, neither here nor in any city in the world". The Spanish Government's delegation in the Balearics was criticised for having allowed the Feixina demonstration to go ahead.