MADRIDDec 5 – Spanish police intercepted three more animal-eyed envelopes addressed to the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid and its consulates in Barcelona and Malaga on Monday, according to police sources close to the investigation.
Last week, Ukraine said it received a series of “bloody parcels” addressed to its delegations across Europe, shortly after a letter bomb exploded at the Ukrainian embassy in Spain and police defused others sent , among others, to the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sanchez.
Security personnel from the Spanish postal service detected the new envelopes during checks on Monday morning, after which they alerted the police, the sources said. Police found no explosives or flammables inside, the sources added.
The Ukrainian embassy in Madrid had already received a package with animal eyes on Friday which, according to the Interior Ministry, bore a foreign stamp.
Evidence from that package shared with the postal service aided its staff in the latest interception, the police sources added.
On Saturday, a source close to the investigation told Reuters the six letter bombs appeared to have been sent from the city of Valladolid.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko confirmed the latest wiretaps on Monday, adding that there are already 21 known cases in which threats of this type have been sent to diplomatic missions in 12 countries.
