Prosecutor's Office requests prison without bail for the retiree allegedly responsible for sending explosive letters

MADRID, 27 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The prosecutor of the National Court, Ana Noé, has requested this Friday provisional detention communicated and without bail for the retiree from Miranda de Ebro alleged author of sending explosive letters. This is confirmed by tax sources, who point out that P.G.P., a Spanish national and 74 years old, has accepted his right not to testify before the magistrate.

The Public Ministry attributes six crimes of terrorism to him - one for each inflammatory letter sent - two of them aggravated by being addressed to members of the Government. These crimes would be in competition with a crime of manufacturing, use of explosive, flammable, incendiary devices for terrorist purposes.

From the Prosecutor's Office they motivate their request for unconditional imprisonment due to the risk of escape, concealment of sources of evidence and risk of committing other criminal acts.

The retiree sent up to six letters at the end of last November and beginning of December to institutions such as the Presidency of the Government, the Ministry of Defense or the US and Ukrainian embassies in Spain. He is a very active person on social networks and with technical and computer knowledge, according to sources from the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police. The Vitoria City Council has confirmed that he was an official of this consistory until 2013.

The person arrested, who was an official of the Vitoria town hall until 2013, lived in a small house on Clavel street in Miranda de Ebro, where specialists from the National Police carried out a search on Wednesday.

The Ministry of the Interior stressed that the investigation has been very "complex and laborious", affecting several provinces of Spain. The proceedings have been able to determine that all shipments of the six letters were made from the city of Burgos.

On November 24, a letter with explosive material addressed to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, which had been sent by ordinary postal mail, was detected. The services of the Security Department of the Presidency of the Government detected the letter in the tasks of screening and filtering correspondence.

Five other similar letters, due to their characteristics and content, reached the Embassy of Ukraine and the Embassy of the United States in Madrid, the Instalaza company in Zaragoza, the European Union Satellite Center located at the Torrejón Air Base and the Ministry of Defence. A security guard from the Ukrainian Embassy was injured by the explosion of one of the devices.

On January 3, the judge of the National Court investigating the sending of this series of explosive letters agreed to open a new line of investigation in the case to carry out a series of investigations of a technological nature.