"Noelia Castillo was raped by a group of immigrants", a narrative amplified on X by MAGA, anti-immigration and pro-Russian accounts from the day before her death

Conservative users and members of the MAGA movement in the US are among those who have shared this narrative the most

The first piece of content in English detected by Maldita.es that spreads this narrative on X—and the most viral one—has already racked up almost 7 million views. It was posted by Ada Lluch, a Spanish influencer who supports White House policies, on 25 March. “She was living in a care home for minors when she was gang-raped,” she wrote about Noelia Castillo. Lluch, who delivered an anti-immigration speech at a demonstration in London in September 2025, clarifies in a second tweet that when she says “unaccompanied minors” she is referring to “immigrants”. The Directorate-General for the Prevention and Protection of Children and Adolescents of the Catalan Regional Government told Maldita.es that Noelia Castillo was in two care homes between 2015 and 2019and that they have no record of any sexual assault suffered by the young woman during her stay in the care homes.

Jack Posobiec, the American promoter of ‘Franco Fridays’, has also helped spread this narrative. On 27 March, he wrote on the same platform: “Spain authorises the euthanasia of 25-year-old Noelia Castillo Ramos after she was gang-raped by African migrants in state care”. This is not the first time he has spread misinformation: years ago, he propagated the conspiracy theory known as Pizzagate, according to which members of the US Democratic Party, then led by Hillary Clinton, ran a child abuse ring in the cellars of a Washington pizzeria.

Posobiec is a senior editor at the website Human Events, which has also shared the claim that Noelia Castillo was raped by a group of migrants. On 26 March, the website published a video in which Posobiec and Libby Emmons, editor-in-chief of The Post Millennial (a website that describes itself as “conservative” and has spread disinformation on occasion) who also writes for Human Events, defended this narrative. Four days later, on 30 March, Human Events featured this same narrativeprominently on its front page.

Matt Walsh, a pro-Trump political commentator, and Martin Sellner, the leader of an Austrian political group which, according to BBC, advocates racism and violence and has been banned from entering Germany, are two other figures who have amplified this narrative on X. Their two tweets alone, posted on 27 March, have racked up almost a million views and been shared more than 32,000 times at the time of writing.

It has also been amplified by other accounts associated with the MAGA movement, an acronym for the slogan ‘Make America Great Again’. Although it had been used previously by other candidates, Donald Trump popularised it during his 2015 election campaign and made it his slogan. Since then, it has become a political, cultural and social movement centred around the current US president. Maldita.es has identified at least two accounts describing themselves as MAGA in their profiles, with a combined total of over 210,000 followers, which have posted tweets about Noelia Castillo and the alleged gang rape by a group of immigrants.

Pro-Russian websites and social media accounts also spread disinformation about Noelia Castillo and the migrants

On 28 March, the ISL Paladins account, which belongs to the International Sovereign League ‘Paladins’, also known as the International Anti-Globalist League, and which has published messages of support for the UNR in Mexico or Golden Dawn in Greece, published a post containing statements such as: “Noelia, a young white Spanish woman who had been brutally raped by a gang of Arab and African immigrants, was euthanised by the authorities”.

The ISL Paladins alliance was launched in September 2025 at an event held in St Petersburg (Russia) and was attended by Konstantin Malofeev, the Russian oligarch and founder of the Tsargrad channel who has been sanctioned by the EU and the United States; as well as the Russian ultra-nationalist ideologue Aleksandr Dugin and Konstantin Chebykin, a deputy for United Russia, the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Representatives from other countries, including Italy, Serbia, Greece, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil, among others, also attended. There were Spanish present too: a delegation from the Falange led by Manuel Andrino, convicted for the assault on the Blanquerna centre in 2013, and Gonzalo Martín, vice-president and head of International Relations at Democracia Nacional.

On 27 March, the Russian-American influencer Alexandra Jost, better known as Sasha Meets Russia, also linked immigration to the rape of Noelia Castillo. That day, she posted on X stating: “The heart-wrenching tragedy of Noelia Castillo Ramos, the poor girl whom Spain euthanised, serves as a stark reminder that the lives of immigrants are more important to Europe than her own. Her rapists should have been the ones to receive euthanasia”. According to the investigative media outlets OCCRP and Novaya Gazeta Europe, this influencer has received payments from RT – a channel funded by the Russian government – to spread pro-Russian narratives and reach places where RT and other Kremlin-linked channels are blocked.

It has also been shared by News Front, a pro-Kremlin website based in Crimea, which in turn cites a post by Visegrád 24, a channel which, according to a report by the Centre for Information Integrity in Africa, “combines far-right, anti-migrant and anti-Islamic rhetoric with targeted influence operations”.

Anti-immigration accounts and parties in the UK and US have also capitalized on this narrative

From its X account, on March 25, the Christian Nationalist Party published a post contributing to amplifying the narrative that Noelia was raped by immigrants. “Tomorrow Spain will euthanize her,” the post concluded.

The Christian Nationalist Party (CNP) is a political party operating in the United Kingdom and the United States, founded and led by Jayda Fransen, who previously served as deputy director of Britain First, an anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant party. Fransen was convicted in 2019 of “hate speech” against Muslims. The X account called Britain is Broken, one of the slogans most frequently used by Reform UK, the party led by Nigel Farage, also shared this same narrative on 26 March.

Other accounts bearing the name “Remigration” – a euphemism used in recent years to refer to the “mass deportation” of immigrants – have also shared this same narrative.

The role of X: no visible community notes (as of 30 March) and Grok responding with this unsubstantiated narrative

None of the 65 posts compiled by Maldita.es (not even those that have racked up millions of views in a matter of days) have visible community notes as of 30 March 2026. This system, which allows comments to be added to tweets, has also failed to function in other crisis situations, such as during the July 2025 riots in Torre Pacheco or the floods in Valencia in October of the previous year.

Only 5% of these tweets (8 out of 65) have any suggested notes. These 8 posts have a total of 16 suggested notes; in other words, they are not visible to users due to a lack of consensus among contributors. The selection of the note displayed at the bottom of the post is based on how many contributors consider it useful and on the fact that these contributors hold different viewpoints.

One of the posts with suggested context is by Ada Lluch, but what the suggested notes state is that the reason for granting euthanasia is not depression, contrary to what Lluch claims. In fact, the court ruling refers to a lumbar spinal cord injury she suffers from, described as “incurable and non-rehabilitable”, as we explained on Maldita.es. In no instance do the suggested notes explain that the identity of Noelia Castillo’s attackers is unknown and that neither she nor her family have publicly mentioned any nationality.

Grok, X’s artificial intelligence, has also contributed to the spread of this narrative in English regarding Noelia Castillo. In several replies to different users, it has claimed, with varying degrees of certainty, that this young woman, who underwent euthanasia on 26 March, had been raped by a group of migrants (in some cases even specifying that they were “Africans”). However, in other replies, it has explained that this claim is not based on real facts. Elon Musk, the platform’s owner, responded with “So fucked up” to a tweet mentioning content that promoted this narrative.

France, Italy, Argentina or Greece: This is how the narrative has spread

The narrative has spread beyond the 65 posts analyzed by Maldita.es in this article. Former Italian Senator Simone Pillon, from the League party, shared it on March 26th.

French is another language with a high volume of posts on X, as Maldita.es has discovered and as verified by France 24. Fact-checkers in Greece, Argentina, or Mexico, among others, have also verified this narrative.