The Anti-Terrorism Unit of the Judicial Police has already identified the author and sender of two suspicious letters that arrived on Monday at the Ukrainian Embassy in Lisbon. CNN Portugal.
According to analyzes carried out on envelopes and the contents of letters at the Ricardo Jorge Institute and the Scientific Police Laboratory, biological traces of animal blood and animal eyes were found, as well as other letters sent in packets to embassies and consulates. in Ukraine in other countries. However, some of the envelopes contained explosive devices.
In all cases, the author pretends that the sender is Tesla, which, according to the authorities, is intended to influence the image of the American company.
According to CNN Portugal, the person responsible for these threats has already been identified in one of the EU countries. The channel adds that the envelopes that arrived at the Ukrainian embassy in Lisbon had a “specific smell” and were sent by regular mail via CTT.
The Portuguese Judicial Police are investigating the case together with their European counterparts.
Alerted by the Ukrainian government, officials from the Ukrainian embassy in Lisbon called the PSP as soon as they received the letter, but the authorities did not find any traces of gunpowder or any other explosive devices.
So far, threatening letters have been confirmed – with pyrotechnic material or with animal eyes inside and traces of blood – in Spain, Hungary, Holland, Poland, Croatia, Italy, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Romania.
In Spain, envelopes with these characteristics have been intercepted in recent days at the embassy in Madrid, as well as at the consulates in Malaga and Barcelona.
Before that, trap letters had already been sent, the first of which was sent on November 24 to Moncloa Palace (the seat of the Spanish government) and addressed to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
Fraudulent emails were also sent to the Spanish Ministry of Defense, to the Satellite Center at the Torrejon de Ardoz Air Base (Madrid) and to the Instalaza arms company in Zaragoza.
Only one of these packages caused minor injury when a Ukrainian embassy employee opened the envelope and suffered hand injuries.
The Spanish Interior Minister on Friday recommended that the European Commission and partner countries take action if they receive trap letters like those sent to various organizations in Spain, acknowledging that they may be related to the war in Ukraine.
On Monday, the Ukrainian embassy in Lisbon called the police over “suspicious correspondence” but authorities did not find any explosives.
