The accused of making ready the incendiary letters, after the search of his residence.
Pompeyo G. consulted the net pages of all of the establishments and organizations that acquired inflammatory lettersWith that very same connection, the retiree, in response to the investigators, purchased on Amazon cable with a wick, switches and potassium nitrate, stickers for envelopes and templates to attract lettersThe Police crossed these knowledge with cell visitors from two particular tobacconists within the metropolis of Burgos
The procuring listing was sufficient for the brokers of the General Information Commission (CGI) of the National Police to concentrate on the principle suspect. There was a kilo of pure potassium nitrate, wire with a wick, switches, copper wires, incandescent mild bulbs, stickers for envelopes, hinges, screws, precision drill bits, and even a template for drawing letters and numbers. All bought on-line and all acquired by a retiree residing in Miranda de Ebro, who the brokers maintained as the principle suspect for having despatched six letters with incendiary units that arrived on the finish of November on the Ministry of the Presidency, on the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid, to the Ministry of Defense and several other know-how and weapons manufacturing corporations in protest in opposition to Spain’s assist for Ukraine after the invasion of their nation by the Russian military.
But there was extra knowledge since from that very same connection, used presumably by Pompeyo G, the retiree now detained for terrorism consulted, in response to the investigators, all the net pages of the businesses and establishments that acquired these letters. Even that of the Ministry of the Presidency, based mostly in Moncloa. The investigators suspect that these inquiries had been made to acquire the addresses to which the letters ought to be despatched and the knowledge of the attainable recipients.
In the case of the Ministry of the Presidency, as NIUS has been capable of affirm, the web site was consulted by the investigated terminal on November 4, 14 and 18, 2022, whereas purchases from that very same IP on Amazon materialized on November 10, two weeks earlier than the letters started to reach.
Data crossing from three completely different sources
Thus, the Information brokers immediately relate the purchases on Amazon with the elaboration of the artifacts, which had inside a home made picket field that had the identical hinge mannequin bought in that order, and with some perforations of two and 4 millimeters that carried a metallic piece discovered within the bundle despatched to the embassy of Ukraine. Those holes match the precision drill bits additionally bought on-line by the retiree.
However, there was a key piece of knowledge that served to shut the circle and relate the now detainee to the shipments: the presence of that IP tackle (and due to this fact of the terminal that generated it) within the neighborhood of two tobacconists on Calle San Pablo 17 and hat store 19 in Burgos. After an exhaustive evaluation of the letters despatched, the brokers of the General Information Commissioner got here to the conclusion that the stamps used to ship them may solely have been bought in these two institutions. It was then that they requested the listing of cell phones that had been within the space, they usually matched them with the visitors of queries from the web sites of the establishments and corporations that acquired the assaults.