The National Court has summoned as witnesses as of the 22nd the security managers of the organizations that last November were the target of a wave of letters prepared with a pyrotechnic device to burn when opened, one of which caused minor injuries. in one hand to an employee of the Embassy of Ukraine in Madrid, as confirmed by legal sources.
The people cited by José Luis Calama, head of the Central Investigating Court number 4, are technicians from the ministries of the Presidency and Defense, from the diplomatic legations in Spain, Ukraine and the United States and from the Satellite Center of the Torrejón air base in Ardoz, in Madrid, where envelopes containing homemade devices that activated a small charge of gunpowder designed to ignite, that is, with a fishing line, were intercepted.
The recipients of the envelopes were the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez;
the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles;
the US ambassador, Julissa Reynoso;
the Ukrainian ambassador in Spain, Sergi Pohoreltsev, and the person in charge of the Satellite Center.
A letter was also consigned to the director of the Instalaza arms company.
Now the Court is advancing in the investigation with the call of the witnesses and has also asked the police to investigate technological issues related to the exploding envelopes.
Among those cited is also the wounded man in the Ukrainian legation.
The magistrate has decided that the declaration of the person in charge of Instalaza be held separately.
Calama has urged the investigators of this case to report and detail what materials the artifacts in the packages were made of, according to the aforementioned legal sources.
The Ministry of the Interior has already pointed out that the referral of the incendiary letters "could be related to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia."
The pyrotechnic letters have already been subjected to analysis of all kinds, thanks to which it has been possible to determine that they were sent from national territory, probably from the province of Valladolid.
The first package was received by ordinary mail on November 24 at the Presidency offices of the Palacio de La Moncloa.
It was addressed to Pedro Sánchez and was detected when it was passed through the X-ray machine. The second was the one located at the Ukrainian Embassy, and it was the only one that caused injuries to a person.
The last one was the one controlled on the first day of December in the security filter of the United States Embassy in Madrid, as confirmed by Interior.
This investigation is different from the one related to the receipt of envelopes with sheep's eyes in dozens of Ukrainian embassies and consulates throughout Europe, including those in Madrid, Barcelona and Malaga.