Isabel Peralta was one of 14 people arrested on November 6 during major raids against Spain’s leading neo-Nazi cell, called Nucleo Nacional.

According to El Pais, which accessed the investigation file, officers searching Peralta’s home found 10 rifles, three shotguns, three pistols and around 10 boxes of ammunition, along with a written oath to Adolf Hitler.

The newspaper also reported that investigators intercepted references to her wanting to ‘go shooting in Paris’ during unrest in the French capital in October.

She has now had her passport removed while remaining under investigation.

Little over a year ago, experts warned The Spanish Eye about the influence of Peralta and her ilk.

Speaking to this newspaper last year, historian Gonzalo Alvarez Chillida warned that figures such as Peralta were promoting an authoritarian vision whose consequences their supporters appeared to underestimate.

‘I think many people who support the far right assume that some aspects of the current democratic order will remain, which is completely wrong,’ the Complutense University professor said.

His comments formed part of a Spanish Eye investigation into Peralta and fellow far-right influencer Ada Lluch, examining how extremist messages were reaching younger audiences online.

Alvarez Chillida described Spain’s far-right groups as united by ‘ultranationalism, xenophobia and Islamophobia’.

‘Muslims today occupy the place that Jews occupied 100 years ago, with very similar discourses in both cases, which present them as an existential threat that wants to destroy us,’ he said.

He also warned that some women supporting authoritarian movements appeared to assume their own rights would survive intact.

‘They will be surprised when the dictatorship is fully established and the freedom to protest against social cutbacks or other policies that harm them disappears,’ he told The Spanish Eye.

Peralta had already attracted widespread condemnation after an antisemitic speech at a 2021 event honouring the Division Azul, the Spanish volunteers who fought for Nazi Germany.

She declared that ‘the enemy will always be the same, albeit with different masks: the Jew’.

By the time of The Spanish Eye’s reporting, she was publicly identifying as a ‘national socialist’ and appearing alongside Nucleo Nacional as the organisation announced plans to expand across Spain.

Digital media academic Juan Diaz Noci, also interviewed for the investigation, warned that economic frustration and distrust of established media were making young people more receptive to extreme political messages.

Despite their qualifications, he said, many young people could not afford homes and felt increasingly disenfranchised.

‘Many are becoming radicalised,’ he told The Spanish Eye. ‘I worry for the future if young people continue to feel ignored.’

The latest police investigation has brought fresh scrutiny of Peralta’s role within Nucleo Nacional.

According to El Pais, which reported accessing the case file, she acted as its spokesperson, Madrid delegate and head of international relations.

The newspaper also reported that investigators found firearms and ammunition at her home and examined messages advocating an armed movement.

The inquiry includes allegations concerning the recruitment of minors. Peralta remains under investigation following her release.