A letter similar to the letter addressed to the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, which exploded at the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid on Wednesday 30th, causing minor injuries to one person, was seized by the authorities a week ago, it has been announced. Ministry of Interior this Thursday -Friday (1st).
According to the ministry’s statement, the “envelope with pyrotechnic material addressed to the Head of Government” was “detected and neutralized by the security services” of the Moncloa Palace on 24 November. To the person received at the Ukrainian embassy in the Spanish capital.
“While the final results of the analyzes are awaited, the envelope may contain a substance similar to that used in fireworks,” the ministry said.
After its detection, Moncloa security “continued a controlled flameout of the envelope,” explained.
In addition to the letter sent to Sánchez and the letter that exploded at the Ukrainian embassy, the other two envelopes were seized Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morningat the headquarters of the instalaza arms company in Zaragoza (northeast) and at the Torrejón de Ardoz military base near Madrid.
“While we wait for the progress of the investigations and the results of the analyzes carried out by the National Police experts, both the characteristics and contents of the envelopes are similar in all four cases,” the ministry said.
On Wednesday, an official for security at the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid was slightly injured in the hand when a letter bomb addressed to the ambassador exploded, and Kiev has ordered increased security at all its diplomatic missions.
The Spanish justice system, which launched an investigation into a possible terrorist crime following the incident at the Ukrainian embassy yesterday, said it had combined all the facts in the same case, including the fifth suspicious envelope sent to headquarters on Thursday. From the Ministry of Defence.
letters in series
According to the Ministry of Interior, on the same Wednesday afternoon, another “suspicious” envelope was detected at the headquarters of the instalaza arms company in Zaragoza (northeast), and the “controlled detonation of the device” of the police detonators (TEDAX) was carried out.
Instalaza makes a grenade launcher that Socialist Pedro Sánchez’s Spanish government sent to Ukraine shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.
Earlier on Thursday, “Security systems at Torrejón de Ardoz Air Base (Madrid) have detected a suspicious envelope (which may contain some sort of mechanism) identified after analysis with X-rays,” noted a message. Ministry of Interior.
This base, close to the Spanish capital, is used by official aircraft carrying members of the Spanish government and from there military aircraft carrying weapons and other forms of aid to Ukraine.
Faced with a number of similar incidents, the Interior Ministry claimed to have ordered “extreme safeguards” at both embassies and public and government buildings “especially with regard to the control of postal shipments”.
source: Noticias
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