The judge grants unconditional imprisonment for the alleged author of the explosive letters

He attributes six crimes of terrorism to him, two of them aggravated because the letters were addressed to members of the Government

MADRID, 27 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has agreed this Friday unconditional prison for the retiree from Miranda de Ebro who was arrested this Wednesday as the alleged author of sending explosive letters to various institutions, including the Presidency of the Government.

In the order, the head of the Central Investigating Court Number 4 explains that although there are no indications that the person investigated belongs to or collaborates with any terrorist gang or organized group, the actions that are objectively imputed to him, the context in which they occur ( war in Ukraine) and the recipients of the packages show that "the objective of seriously disturbing public peace" is present in their minds.

It indicates that it conveys the message that it is "in the face of actions carried out by persons linked to Russia as repression of the interests of Spain and the United States as a consequence of their support for Ukraine in the face of the Russian occupation", and adds that it seeks to "force the public authorities of our country to refrain from supporting Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression".

The judge's decision is in line with the request of the prosecutor of the National Court, Ana Noé, who was interested in the provisional detention communicated and without bail for P.G.P., a Spanish national and 74 years old, who has accepted his right to not testify before the magistrate.

The judge and the Public Prosecutor's Office attribute 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 and incendiary devices for terrorist purposes.

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.