The Police detain a 74-year-old man in Burgos for his alleged relationship with the sending of the inflammatory letters

The National Police have arrested a person in Miranda de Ebro (Burgos) for his alleged relationship with the cargo of the six explosive letters that final November had been despatched to the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and to different organizations. Investigation sources have confirmed to NIUS that he’s a 74-year-old retiree and that he has been arrested in that city and that for now he’s credited with being answerable for all of the shipments.

At this time, the operation, coordinated by courtroom quantity 4 of the National Court, continues to be open. The brokers perform the search of the tackle of the arrested individual with the intention to collect proof earlier than the decide takes an announcement this Friday, January 27.

On November 24, a letter with explosive materials addressed to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, which had been despatched by unusual postal mail, was detected. The companies of the Security Department of the Presidency of the Government detected the letter within the duties of screening and filtering correspondence.

Five different letters related as a result of their traits and content material to these acquired by the Embassy of Ukraine and the Embassy of the United States in Madrid, by the Instalaza firm in Zaragoza, by the European Union Satellite Center positioned on the Torrejón Air Base and by the Ministry of Defence. A safety guard from the Ukrainian Embassy was injured by the explosion of one of many gadgets.

On January 3, the decide of the National Court investigating the sending of this collection of explosive letters agreed to open a brand new line of investigation within the case to hold out a collection of investigations of a technological nature.