EnglishNeiva Marina Carmona Franco infiltrated environmentalist groups in Madrid, including the local branches of Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future. She participated in civil disobedience actions. She had an official ID card under her fake name.
She was quickly suspected of being an infiltrator because she exhibited suspicious behavior, such as not having a social media presence. She was identified when members of Extinction Rebellion used a photocopy of her ID card to request a birth certificate from the city where she claimed to have been born, and discovered that she wasn't in the city's registry.
María Victoria Canillas Sánchez infiltrated groups in Madrid, including social centers and the local branch of the environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion. She first infiltrated a gym in a social center before moving on to other groups. She attended meetings. She had a sexual relationship with one of her targets.
She was identified partly because:
- She seemed at ease with contact sports despite claiming she had never practiced any.
- She had a very flattering attitude towards people, and she changed her opinion depending on who she spoke to.
- Pictures of her under her cover identity matched pictures of her under her real identity. The latter included pictures found on social media.
Maria Isern Torres infiltrated groups in Girona, including pro-independence groups. She attended demonstrations and meetings. She had an official ID card under her fake name. She was in a sexual and romantic relationship with one of her targets, O., for several years. She lived with O. for a year and, on one occasion, brought him to her real family home to meet her real mother, who was complicit in the deception.
Lucía Rodríguez de Ves infiltrated groups in Madrid, including the antifascist group Distrito 104, the Movimiento Antirrepresivo de Madrid (Madrid Anti-Repression Movement), and social centers. She first infiltrated a gym before moving on to other groups. She attended many events and demonstrations and participated in civil disobedience actions and riots.
She was identified partly because:
- Her fake and real names were similar: both contained the name “Lucía Rodríguez.”
- Pictures of her under her cover identity matched pictures of her under her real identity. The latter included pictures posted by her real relatives on social media in which she appeared.
Daniel Hermoso Pérez infiltrated groups in Catalonia, including the social center La Cinètika in Barcelona. He first infiltrated a gym in La Cinètika before moving on to other groups. He attended demonstrations and participated in civil disobedience actions. He had sexual or romantic relationships with at least eight people and used those relationships to gain access to activist spaces.
Ramón Muñoz Fernández infiltrated groups in Valencia, including groups advocating for housing rights and a social center. He attended and organized meetings and demonstrations. He participated in actions, including the nighttime degradation of fences surrounding lots owned by a real estate developer. He had an official ID card and social security number under his fake name.
Ignacio José Enseñat Guerra infiltrated groups in Barcelona, including groups advocating for housing rights and a student union. He attended meetings and demonstrations and participated in civil disobedience actions. He had an official ID card under his fake name, which he used to open a bank account and conduct other administrative procedures.
He was identified partly because:
- His accent did not match the region of Spain from which he claimed to be.
- An apartment he claimed belonged to his uncle was listed in public records as owned by a company and intended for tourist accommodation.
- Pictures of him under his cover identity matched pictures of him under his real identity.
Carlos Pérez Moreno infiltrated groups in Madrid, including the antifascist group Distrito 14. He first infiltrated a gym before moving on to other groups. He attended demonstrations and participated in actions. On some occasions, he and another infiltrator, Sergio Gigirey Amado, participated in the same actions.
He was identified partly because:
- When people visited the apartment he claimed to live in, the tap water was brown, as if no one lived there.
- Despite claiming to work for an air conditioning installation company, he often attended political events during work hours.
Álvaro Gaztelu Alcaire infiltrated groups in Lleida, including pro-independence groups and a student union. He attended demonstrations and participated in riots. He had an official ID card under his fake name, which he used to open a bank account.
He was identified partly because pictures of him under his cover identity matched pictures of him under his real identity. The latter included a video from his police graduation ceremony and a picture from a race in which he participated under his real identity.
Sergio Gigirey Amado infiltrated groups in Madrid, including the antifascist group Distrito 14, and the Movimiento Antirrepresivo de Madrid (Madrid Anti-Repression Movement). He first infiltrated a food bank before moving on to other groups. He attended meetings and participated in civil disobedience actions. On some occasions, he and another infiltrator, Carlos Pérez Moreno, participated in the same actions. He shared an apartment with some of his targets and was in a romantic and sexual relationship with one of his targets for several years.
He was identified partly because:
- Pictures of him under his cover identity matched pictures of him under his real identity. The latter included a video from his police graduation ceremony and a picture from a race for which he registered under his real name.
- An employer for whom he claimed to work denied employing him.
María Ángeles Gómez Armendáriz infiltrated many groups in Madrid, including Madres Contra la Represión (Mothers Against Repression) and other anti-fascist and anti-repression groups. She attended meetings and demonstrations. She had an official ID card under her fake name.
She was identified partly because:
- When asked about her work history, she evaded the question and did not answer.
- When asked if she was an infiltrator, she did not deny the accusation.
Belén Awad-Ratib Gómez infiltrated groups in Barcelona, including pro-independence and pro-Palestinian groups. She attended meetings and events and participated in actions. She had an official ID card under her fake name, which she used to open a bank account. Although her physical infiltration stopped in 2020, she maintained telephone contact with activists until 2023.
Luis Castilla Pérez infiltrated groups in Seville, including anti-austerity and anarchist groups, and social centers. He attended meetings and events. He had an official ID card under his fake name.
He was identified because:
- Activists began to suspect that he was an infiltrator because he was very active in their groups, yet no one knew much about him.
- When asked to show that he wasn't an infiltrator, he failed to do so and disappeared in very suspicious circumstances.
José Manuel Iglesias Romero infiltrated anti-globalization groups in the Asturias region. He attended meetings and demonstrations.
He was identified when someone who knew him under his real identity as a police officer recognized him by chance at a demonstration.
Alfonso Collado Corrales infiltrated groups in Madrid, including anti-globalization groups and social centers. He also attended a demonstration in Italy.
The infiltration case was made public in 2025 when a journalist published a book about it. The journalist intended to keep the infiltrator's real name secret but, in interviews to promote the book, let details slip that allowed activists to find the name.
“Fernando Pérez López” infiltrated groups in Madrid. He first infiltrated prisoner support groups, before moving on to infiltrate the urban guerrilla Marxist-Leninist group First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups (GRAPO, Grupos de Resistencia Antifascista Primero de Octubre). He attended and helped organize events and demonstrations. On one occasion, he introduced to other activists a woman whom he claimed was his mother, though she likely wasn't, as well as people whom he claimed were his friends, though they likely weren't. His infiltration led to the arrest of GRAPO members.
