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The 74-year-old retiree arrested as the alleged perpetrator of sending explosive letters declares this Friday in the AN

He will go to court after the police carried out a search at his home on Wednesday.

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The 74-year-old retiree arrested as the alleged perpetrator of sending explosive letters declares this Friday in the AN

He will go to court after the police carried out a search at his home on Wednesday

MADRID, 26 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The retiree who was arrested this Wednesday in Miranda de Ebro as the alleged author of sending explosive letters from home to the Presidency of the Government and embassies will testify this Friday before the judge of the National Court José Luis Calama.

P.G.P., a Spanish national and 74 years old, is considered responsible for sending the six letters with explosive material sent at the end of last November and beginning of December to different companies and institutions such as the Government Presidency, the Embassy of Ukraine in Spain or the US Embassy in Spain.

He is a very active person on social networks and, according to the investigators, he has 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 arrested man resided in a small house on Calle del Clavel de Miranda de Ebro, where specialists from the National Police carried out a search this Wednesday before he was handed over to the head of the Central Investigating Court Number 4, who is investigating the shipment. of these letters with pyrotechnic material.

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 letters similar due to their characteristics and content to those received by the Embassy of Ukraine and the Embassy of the United States in Madrid, by the Instalaza company in Zaragoza, by the European Union Satellite Center located at the Torrejón Air Base and by the Ministry of Defence. A security guard from the Ukrainian Embassy was injured by the explosion of one of the devices. There were also shipments with envelopes that had animal eyes inside.

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.