Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey

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Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey (lit. "Warriors of Christ the King") was a Spanish paramilitary group that operated in the late 1970s.

Their best known action was the attack against the left-wing Carlist faction (Carlist Party) in the so-called Montejurra Incident of 1976, happened during the annual Carlist pergrination to that mountain in Navarre. In this attack, two supporters of the Carlist Party (Ricardo Garcia Pellejero and Aniano Jimenez Santo) were killed, while police, then under command of Manuel Fraga, remained passive.

José Luis Marín García Verde and Hermenegildo García Llorente, alleged members of this armed group, were arrested later, but were later released without investigation.

The presence of known extreme right militants from Latin America and Italy in this crime has left to many speculations that links them to the Operation Gladio.