Three letters containing “animal eyes”, addressed to the diplomatic representations of Ukraine in Spain, were intercepted on Monday, according to what Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned from a police source, a few days after the explosion of a letter bomb at the Ukrainian embassy in that country.
“Correos security services detected and intercepted three suspicious letters this morning, addressed to the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid and to the country’s consulates in Barcelona and Malaga,” said this source, who specified that these envelopes did not contain “explosive substances.” . “, but “animal eyes”.
“These shipments are similar in their characteristics to those received last Friday by the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid, as well as by other consulates and embassies of the country in other European cities,” continues the source.
Letter bomb in Madrid
On Friday, the spokesman for Ukrainian diplomacy announced that several Ukrainian diplomatic missions in Europe had received “bloody” envelopes containing animal eyes. kyiv then denounced a “planned campaign of terror” by Moscow.
On Wednesday, a letter bomb exploded and slightly injured an employee of the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid.
After the explosion of this letter, the Spanish authorities announced the interception of other similar letters addressed in particular to the President of the Spanish Government and his Defense Minister, as well as to the United States Embassy and to an arms manufacturing company that manufactures grenade launchers donated by Madrid. to kyiv at the beginning of the Russian invasion.
According to the first elements of the investigation, these trap letters were sent from Spain, said the Spanish Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, on Thursday. The Spanish justice has opened an investigation for alleged acts of “terrorism”.
Spain was rocked last year by sending threatening letters containing assault rifle bullets to various politicians, including the interior minister.
Source: BFM TV
