Natasha Niebieskikwiat
11/14/2020 4:40 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 11/14/2020 4:40 PM
The security forces are investigating an anonymous complaint that arrived in the last hours on the social networks of the Argentine embassy to the United Kingdom.
The complaint claimed that a
shipment of ammonium nitrate
had passed
from the Paraguayan city of Encarnación to its neighbor Posadas, capital of the province of Misiones.
And that the objective was to arm explosives.
In fact, ammonium nitrate is so powerful that the daunting explosion in the port of Beirut, last August, which left 204 dead and more than 5,000 injured in varying degrees, can be remembered.
It was stored ammonium nitrate that exploded.
The first version was published on the Data Clave site, which was confirmed by
Clarín
from high government sources, who indicated that it is true that there was a similar complaint in the last ones, but clarified that there is no confirmation that the transport of said cargo has been truly accomplished.
The complaint was referred to Federal Court 6 together with the Federal Police.
The sources consulted indicated that "numerous complaints" are received throughout the year.
In this case, it was received
on the Facebook page of the Argentine embassy in London, and that Ambassador Javier Figueroa transferred to Buenos Aires,
after which Interpol also intervened.
Minister Sabina Frederic spoke in the last hours with the president of DAIA, Jorge Knoblovits, who expressed his
concern about the complaint.
Both spoke of reinforcing the sites of the Jewish community - temples, clubs, schools - since, according to the complaint, the transport of that shipment of ammonium nitrate would have as target targets in the Jewish community.
But that line of the complaint is also being investigated, and has not been confirmed.
Days ago, Knoblovits and Frederic had also talked about tightening the security of the community sites.
It was after the recent terrorist attack in Vienna, which left five dead.
With the antecedent of the terrorist attacks on the Israeli embassy (1992, 29 dead) and the AMIA (1994, 85 dead), all the events that take place in the Triple Border, or in nearby areas always, sensitize both the leadership Jewish and security forces.
Officials who handle information about the complaint made to the embassy in London asked not to alert about any attack, but to let the police do their investigations.
And they recalled that the northern border is today also the scene of a phenomenon in which terrorism is used by organized crime in drug trafficking networks and the two are interrelated.
By the way, this Friday the newspaper
Misiones Online
carried out with wide deployment the assault carried out by the police and the Ministry of Security in said province that allowed to
abort an attack by the so-called First Capital Command (PCC), an
emblematic criminal gang in Brazil.
It was going to use a
car bomb to free several of its leaders
who are serving time in the Cambyretá prison.
This is close to Encarnacion.
And also to Posadas.
According to the Misiones newspaper, a dog from the anti-explosives division detected a bag with
12 cartridges of dynamite gel weighing one and a half kilograms each, plus three detonating tubes and rolls of detonating cord.