BarcelonaPolice coup against the criminal leadership of the Boixos Nois group. On November 2, the National Police arrested 14 members of the radical group, who are charged with serious crimes of drug trafficking, importation of illegal drugs, exploitation of women for prostitution, possession of weapons and money laundering. . Half of the detainees have been sent to prison. The Spanish police force searched 18 homes in different municipalities of the Vallès such as Sabadell or Barberà del Vallès and Torrelles de Llobregat, in the Baix Llobregat, in an operation led by the court of instruction number 1 of Sabadell, and in which they intervened 10 firearms – from pistols to submachine guns – and several knives – several axes were found -, baseball bats, 1 kg of pink cocaine, 5,000 marijuana plants, hashish, narcotics and a lot of supremacist material. The members of the gang had books, magazines, all sorts of Nazi objects and insignia, photographs of Hitler, swastikas and Spanish flags with proclamations against leftist groups.
Images of the arrest of the 14 members of the Boixos Nois in a video provided by the National Police
As part of this operation that has already advanced The Direct more than 20 bank accounts have been blocked, three homes and 27 vehicles have been seized, as well as more than 300,000 euros in cash. According to the statement from the National Police, the investigation began in early 2020 and the connecting link was the Boixos Nois group. The detainees acted as a “hierarchical and disciplined criminal organization, and with an excessive violent character that manifested before other organizations and clans that tried to dispute their area of action.”
According to investigators, the gang had a complex network of “producers and redistributors” of the drug, with whom they avoided keeping in touch. Regarding the import of banned drugs, mainly anabolic, according to the National Police, some could cause the death of the consumer. The group had a flat in Sabadell dedicated to prostitution, which allowed them to obtain funding for the rest of their criminal activities. “This radical faction would be the heiress of the so-called Casuals, disarticulated a few years ago with the arrest and imprisonment of some of its members accused of extortion and kidnapping,” the police force explains. The Direct reported who were the members who led this network, all known neo-Nazis linked to the Boixos Nois: Ivan Chicano Ballestar, Dídac González Llobet, Francisco Pérez García Paco, Sergi Verdaguer Corral, José Amador Valverde Ruiz, Antonio Pozo Segura and Genís Vila Pujol.
One of the leaders of the band belonged to the motorcyclist band Angels of Hell, Hells Angels,also linked to various police operations. The judge’s investigation is continuing, a statement has been taken from the 14 detainees, and at the moment 7 are still in prison on remand.
