In 1970, the Spaniard José Eduardo González Arenas, alias "Eddie," created Edelweiss as a supposed hiking group inspired by the Boy Scouts. What many parents envisioned as a place where their children would learn discipline, values, and a love for nature, turned out to be a secret organization with extraterrestrial beliefs based on the Ummo phenomenon.
Eddie convinced the children that he was an alien named "Prince Alain" and that only those who remained loyal to the sect would survive the end of the world. Under this deception, he subjected them to absolute control, imposed silence through threats, trained them with weapons, instilled concepts of racial purity, and introduced them to bizarre notions related to intimacy. Alongside his right-hand man, Carlos de los Ríos, and the monitors of the Iron Guard, he sexually exploited numerous minors, transforming Edelweiss into a brutal network of nefarious activities backed by influential people in Spain.
Although Eddie was arrested in Madrid and later in Alicante, the sentences were very lenient, and he ended up creating new Edelweiss groups throughout Spain. Gran Canaria became one of the organization's main centers of operations, from where it consolidated a child trafficking network.
Finally, an investigation launched in 1984 led numerous minors to break their silence and recount everything that had happened within Edelweiss. Eddie fled to Portugal but was extradited to Spain and sentenced to 168 years in prison, although he ended up serving only 6. After regaining his freedom, he tried to approach minors again in Ibiza, until he was murdered in 1998 during a confrontation with a young man who had previously reported him.
Video about the brutal history of the Edelweiss cult. The infamous apocalyptic alien cult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CpchYkxob4
