A 66-year-old man, suspected of having sent several parcel bombs to food companies in Germany in recent days, has been arrested, the Baden-Württemberg criminal police announced on Saturday.
This pensioner living in Ulm and who is currently in pre-trial detention, was not known to the police.
He has yet to make any statement regarding the facts.
Investigators believe "
unlikely that he sent other letters suspecting explosives
."
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Two parcel bombs had exploded earlier this week in companies specializing in food in southwestern Germany, including one in an administrative center of German distribution giant Lidl.
These two explosions had injured four people in all, according to the prosecution.
A last parcel bomb had been discovered and defused in a mail distribution center at Munich airport.
It was addressed to Hipp, a Bavarian baby food manufacturer, local police said on Friday, which already suspected a link between these different shipments.
In addition to targeting companies related to the food sector, these shipments had the common feature of having been sent by fictitious senders, according to investigators.
