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Jesús Ruiz recruited and directed far-right White Boys youth group for Núcleo Nacional

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Summary

  • Núcleo Nacional, under 62-year-old leader Jesús Ruiz, known as 'Fuhrer', recruited minors and directed the far-right youth group White Boys in Asturias.
  • White Boys was a neo-Nazi youth group of about 40 members, mostly minors, that carried out 'hunts' and beatings against minorities in Asturias.
  • WhatsApp groups on two arrested Asturias teenagers' phones exposed the structure of Núcleo Nacional and led to the arrest of its seven leaders in May 2026.
  • White Boys leaders awaited Jesús Ruiz's approval before taking decisions, feared his rebukes, and saluted at the cookouts he summoned them to.
  • The National Police found the youth group had a structure of 'cohesion' and 'internal discipline', with an adult devoted to recruiting and indoctrinating the minors.

Reactions

  • A White Boys member told the group that Jesús Ruiz did not like its members taking drugs, saying he 'doesn't like it at all, not at all'.

Timeline newest first

  1. Instructions from 'the boss' circulated on the WhatsApp group of White Boys, though Núcleo Nacional leader Jesús Ruiz barely participated in the conversations.
  2. White Boys leaders waited to learn Jesús Ruiz's opinion before taking decisions and feared he would reproach them for acting without informing him.
  3. White Boys members attended Jesús Ruiz's summons to a cookout, where they posed making the Nazi salute beside a flag of the organization.
  4. White Boys members told the group's 40 members that Jesús Ruiz did not like them taking drugs.
  5. In May 2026 the National Police arrested the seven leaders of Núcleo Nacional in the 'La Cúpula' WhatsApp group, accused of hate crimes and illicit association.
  6. Surveillance of Jesús Ruiz allowed investigators to connect him with the rest of Núcleo Nacional's leadership and define the structure of 'La Cúpula'.
  7. On 21 February 2026 Núcleo Nacional Asturias called a rally in Gijón, announced by Enrique Lemus and attended by leader Carlos 'Areta'.
  8. In November 2024 a complaint of threats against a minor brought to light the neo-Nazi youth group that carried out beatings in Asturias.
  9. The National Police arrested two members of the youth group, barely over 14, whose phones held the White Boys WhatsApp group with 40 members.
  10. In a message to a 16-year-old, Jesús Ruiz introduced himself as head of Núcleo Nacional's National Department and sent a link to its Telegram channel.
  11. On 15 September 2024 Jesús Ruiz posed in a Núcleo Nacional shirt at an event in Valladolid together with White Boys members.
  12. Jesús Ruiz warned his 'cubs' of infiltrators, and the group took refuge in Discord to plan its 'hunts' with greater discretion.
  13. Investigators found that the most involved minors moved up to Núcleo Nacional, allegedly under Jesús Ruiz's tutelage, and had begun making Molotov cocktails.
  14. In June 2024 one of the arrested minors testified that Jesús Ruiz was the one who created the White Boys group and one of the organizers of Núcleo Nacional.

Sources newest first

  • La estrategia de Núcleo Nacional: reclutar jóvenes, agitar la calle y quedarse en la sombraelpais.com· 6h

    An El País article by Juana Viúdez examines Núcleo Nacional's strategy of recruiting young people, stirring the street, and staying in the shadows. It reports that Jesús Ruiz, its 62-year-old leader called "führer" by some, barely posted in the White Boys' WhatsApp group, yet Asturias members awaited his approval, feared rebukes, saluted at his cookout, and quoted him as not liking their drug use at all.

  • Dos móviles de los cachorros de 'White Boys' precipitaron la caída de la cúpula de Núcleo Nacionalcadenaser.com· 4d

    Cadena SER reports that WhatsApp groups on the phones of two arrested Asturias teenagers, members of the neo-Nazi youth group 'White Boys', exposed the structure of Núcleo Nacional and led police to arrest its seven leaders in 'La Cúpula' in May 2026. According to the case file, veteran far-right militant Jesús Ruiz, known as 'Fuhrer', allegedly recruited and disciplined the minors.

Background newest first

  • Une néonazie espagnole arrêtée alors qu’elle prévoyait d’aller « tirer à Paris »huffingtonpost.fr· 46h

    Spanish police found an arsenal at the home of Isabel Peralta, spokesperson of the neo-Nazi group Núcleo Nacional, including rifles, swastika-decorated knives, and Third Reich memorabilia. Per an El País investigation, she planned a shooting in Paris during October 2026's cost-of-living protests; a judge has since suspended the group's activities.

  • Spanish court suspends far-right group over alleged hate crimesaljazeera.com· 2d

    A Spanish judge in Gijon has suspended the activities of the far-right group Nucleo Nacional amid an investigation into alleged hate crimes and illegal association, shutting its office and blocking its social media and bank accounts. The ruling came after 14 members were arrested and police seized more than 20 firearms from its Madrid headquarters, ahead of Spain's 29 November general election; the group, whose members call themselves victims of 'persecution and political repression', calls itself a political movement.

  • La jueza ordena el cese total de actividad a Núcleo Nacional y el cierre de sus sedes - EFEefe.com· 2d

    A judge ordered the total cessation of activity of the neo-Nazi group Núcleo Nacional, the closure of its offices in Madrid, Burgos and Valladolid, and the blocking of its social media, after the Policía Nacional detained 14 members on 6 November and seized more than twenty firearms and other weapons. Police reports say members traveled to Ukraine in August 2026 for paramilitary training with the Azov Brigade to prepare an "armed uprising," and Iván Rico Olivares wrote in a cited communication, "Without training no uprising will work."

  • La 'eugenesia' de Núcleo Nacional: la ideóloga del grupo neonazi diseñó un plan de purga para expulsar a los alejados de una "raza pura"cadenaser.com· 4d

    Cadena SER reports that Isabel Peralta, an ideologue of the neo-Nazi group Núcleo Nacional, won over leader Iván Rico with her plan, baptized "eugenics," to purge Spain of those straying from a "pure race," telling him she needed only 10 disciplined people to carry it out. Citing a police investigation, the article says investigators infer the plan targets those Rico and Peralta judge impure, that the group applied it by expelling followers of Roma and Jewish ancestry, and that since 2024 it organized "hunts of perverts" to persecute minorities, with intercepted chats detailing planned attacks on mosques and Muslims.