A policeman in front of the US embassy in Madrid, on Thursday Eduardo Parra (Europa Press)
Police submitted a report to the service court Friday afternoon on the six pyrotechnic devices sent in the mail over the past few days, citing Valladolid as the possible province of origin of all shipments, according to tax sources. At this time, there is no person who may have been identified as responsible or any proceeding has been sought by police from the court. The current investigation is far from centered around any particular hypothesis, as the conclusions of the agent’s letter indicate.
The first analyzes of the only one of the six letters containing pyrotechnic devices that could be neutralized, sent to the person in charge of the satellite center of the Torrejón de Ardoz Air Force Base (Madrid), have provided the first clues to the investigators. After their study, the police explosives deactivation experts came to the conclusion that these are homemade devices that activated a small charge of gunpowder with a fishing line to ignite, that is, to cause a sudden flame, and to which pieces had metallic “tiny bullets” incorporated as shrapnel, police sources have confirmed to EL PAÍS. Other sources describe them as “bangers” but emphasize that they can “damage” anyone who opens the envelope. So far, only the only activated one, addressed to the Ukrainian Ambassador to Spain, Sergi Pohoreltsev, was slightly injured in the hand of an employee of the diplomatic mission.
The other four letters were addressed to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez; Secretary of Defense Margarita Robles; the US Ambassador to Madrid, Julissa Reynoso; and the director of the weapons company Instalaza. The four deliveries were blown up in a controlled manner by police deactivation experts. The one obtained in the Torrejón base is the one that could be neutralized without taking any damage. None included notes or texts with threats, detailed sources close to the investigation. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, in a letter addressed to the other countries of the EU and the Schengen area, warns that the sending of these letters could be “related to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia”.
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