This Monday, the Police cornered Pompeyo González, a 75-year-old retiree accused of sending six letters with pyrotechnic material in 2022 to, among others, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Ukrainian and US embassies in Madrid. During the first day of the trial being held at the National Court, the agents have described the numerous clues that led to the man, such as traces of DNA, the type of envelopes used or remains of screws. “His home practically looked like a workshop,” one of the researchers summarized. “He was very manic. When he left home he took security measures. And, when we stopped him and reduced [en la calle]he was very calm and told me: ‘You are confused, I am a person who likes marquetry,’ another recalled.
The Prosecutor’s Office requests 22 years in prison for Pompeyo González, a retired official of the Vitoria City Council and resident of Miranda de Ebro (Burgos). He was arrested on January 25, 2023, after the National Police followed his trail for two months. According to researchers, due to his ideological affinity with the current Russian regime, he undertook these actions as a sign of rejection of the support that Spain provided to Ukraine after the invasion launched by the Kremlin.
The trial against González is expected to end on Thursday. The first session has started with the interrogations of witnesses and experts, since the magistrates have authorized the accused to testify at the end of all of them. For now, this Monday’s session has been disastrous for their interests. Fifteen agents from the National Police and the Civil Guard have described the investigations that led to him and have unequivocally pointed him out. “The moulder I had caught my attention, in which the Tedax (Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist Technicians) found a brown substance that matched what was found in the devices. [incendiarios]”, one of the investigators told the court, after detailing all the clues found against him.
The investigations began after an explosive device exploded on November 30, 2022 at the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid, causing injuries to the security guard. The agents then found out that, just a few days before, a similar message addressed to the President of the Government had been received at La Moncloa. And that other similar packages – which contained “hand-made wooden boxes” with a “homemade pyrotechnic device” inside, according to the summary – also arrived at the Ministry of Defense, the United States embassy, the company Instalaza weapons plant—manufacturer of the C-90 grenade launchers that Spain sent as part of military aid to Ukraine—and to the Satellite Center at the Torrejón de Ardoz air base, in Madrid.
“We understood that it could be an issue of terrorism,” the police officer stressed. “With the objectives that had been attacked, we already understood that the objective was to influence Spain’s position on Ukraine. And, from the first moment, we realized that it could be the same person because of the envelope, the stamps and the writing.” “The [Policía] “A scientist told us that she had collected DNA from the same man on different artifacts, including inside the pieces,” added the agent, who emphasized that later, once the suspect was arrested, it was found that “his genetic profile ” coincided with the samples collected.
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They are not the only evidence that points to the retiree. On the one hand, researchers have explained that the trail of used packages points to him: thanks to the postmarks, they discovered that they were sent from Castilla y León; which allowed them to reconstruct the route and specify that they had left Miranda de Ebro. In addition, the envelope used had been purchased through a website whose clients included Pompeyo González. The agents also asked Amazon to see if they could find more matches: “And, at a recent date, I had bought labels identical to those on the envelopes, hinges like the ones on the devices… Everything led us there,” one of them stressed. the police officers.
When prosecuting him, the investigating judge José Luis Calama listed more evidence found in the search of his house, such as “several cylindrical rods that may correspond to the same type of cylinders that housed the incendiary piston of the homemade devices inside; different screws along with springs, similar to the firing pin that was used in the devices; and drills with precision drill bits similar to those used for their production.” The police highlighted today that, during the follow-ups they carried out before his arrest (which included searching for evidence in the trash he threw away), they found “256 scratched matches.” “And the matchhead, according to the Tedax, is what the artifact was made of.”
The summary stated that González regularly consulted news portals financed by the Russian Government and banned in the EU for spreading pro-Russian propaganda, such as Russia Today and Sputnik News, as well as web pages on weapons and chemicals. And, according to the public ministry, he made queries on the Internet such as “if gunpowder is wrapped with nails it can explode”; “how much does a liter of uranium weigh”, “learn Russian in 10 days” and “where are tanks manufactured in Spain”. “Pompeyo González, contrary to the support provided to the Ukrainian nation by the Government of Spain, by the Government of the United States, as well as by other institutions based in national territory, with the aim of changing these positions, [buscaba] “cause a profound shock to the normal peaceful coexistence of Spanish society,” the Prosecutor’s Office states in its indictment.
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