Madrid (EFE).- The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama takes a statement this Friday from the retired former Vitoria City Council official, Pompeyo GP, arrested on Wednesday in Miranda de Ebro (Burgos) as the author of six shipments of envelopes with material fireworks to embassies, such as the one of Ukraine, or even to the Moncloa Palace.
The 74-year-old detainee in the so-called Operation Konvert (“on” in Ukrainian) lived alone in an apartment on Clavel street in the town of Burgos, in the La Charca neighborhood, and was intensely active on social networks, according to the investigation.
The AVT will ask to appear in the case as popular accusation, according to sources from the association of victims of terrorism have informed Efe.
Slightly injured a security guard
The Central Court of Instruction number 4 of the National Court is investigating the facts as a possible crime of terrorism since the discovery on November 30 of the first envelope in the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid and that slightly injured the security guard who manipulated.
However, the following day it was learned that a week earlier, on November 24, a similar shipment had been detected in the Moncloa Palace addressed to the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, which had not been reported until then.
The investigation was thus opened for an alleged crime of terrorism, although the Prosecutor’s Office will specify the crimes attributed to the detainee, once the motivation for the shipments is determined.
They could also be classified as a crime against high State institutions (for the envelope to Moncloa and another to the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles) and injuries due to the injuries suffered by the guard.
The detainee made the artifacts and sent them alone
The complex and laborious operation has determined that all the letters were sent from Burgos and indicates that the detainee made the artifacts and sent them alone, but for the moment the participation or influence of other people in the events has not been ruled out.
Regarding the possible connections or sympathy of the detainee with the Russian government, the Police are analyzing the documentation and the devices that were intervened in an intense search at his home with the support of dogs specialized in the detection of explosives.
In total, the sending of six brown envelopes with homemade pyrotechnic material similar to gunpowder inside is attributed to the President of the Government, the embassies of Ukraine and the US, the Minister of Defense, the arms company Instalaza Zaragoza and to the Torrejón de Ardoz air base, between November and December 2022.
The Court maintains the secrecy of the actions undertaken to locate the suspect for security reasons, but not the main piece in which the arrest warrant and search of the address has been issued.
The Spanish Police were already on the trail of this suspect when the American newspaper “The New York Times” published that Moscow agents arranged the shipment of these packages, according to EFE legal sources.