Two suspicious envelopes arrived at the Ukrainian Embassy in Lisbon

The Embassy of Ukraine in Lisbon received two suspicious envelopes this afternoon by calling the PSP that arrived at the scene at the expense of the special police unit, a police source told Lusa.

The Ukrainian embassy in Lisbon confirmed to Lusa that it called the public security police after identifying “suspicious correspondence”.

In two suspicious envelopes delivered this afternoon to the Ukrainian embassy in Lisbon, PSP did not find any explosive devices, a police source told Lusa.

The same source said that in the assessment of the Center for Explosive Disposal and Underground Security of the Special Police Unit, “no explosive devices were found.”

According to the PSP, the alarm was raised around 3:00 p.m., and by 5:00 p.m., teams from a special police unit, namely the Bomb Disposal Center and Underground Guard, were still on site to check suspicious envelopes.

Traffic along Avenida das Descobertas, where several embassies are located, is blocked, and PSP facilities guarantee a security perimeter.

“Today we received suspicious mail that other missions [ucranianas] they already received it last week,” a source at the Ukrainian embassy told Lusa.

The same source did not know how to clarify the contents of the parcels brought by the postman, since they immediately aroused suspicion and were not opened, and the police were immediately alerted.

The “suspicious characteristics” of the correspondence, which cannot be accepted under the current embassy security protocol, were related to the “format and sender,” the embassy source said.

“People immediately saw that [a correspondência] aroused suspicion, turned to the police, and the postman was eventually detained “in the premises of the diplomatic mission, where police officers are still” in large numbers “, – said the same source.

On Friday, the office of Secretary General of the Internal Security System (SSI) Paulo Viseu Pinheiro told Lusa that Portuguese authorities have stepped up security at the Ukrainian embassy in Lisbon and admit to overestimating the threat level in Portugal. after decoy letters were received by organizations in Spain.

According to SSI, the Anti-Terrorist Coordination Unit (UCAT), which operates within the internal security system, is “watching the situation closely” and is “in close contact with its Spanish, European and international partners.”

“If, as a result of this cooperation with Spain and international partners, as well as our internal analysis, a reassessment of the degree of threat and security is justified, appropriate and appropriate warning and security measures will be immediately taken by the competent authorities.” he added in the SSI general secretary’s office.

UCAT brings together the Security Information Service (SIS), which assesses the degree of threat on the national territory, the Judicial Police (PJ), authorized to investigate terrorism, the PSP, which protects diplomatic facilities and “preventively enhanced security of the Embassy of Ukraine in Lisbon”, Poland, the Aliens Affairs Service and Borders (SEF), the Maritime Police and the Strategic and Defense Information Service (SIED).

SSI also assured that all these organizations are “working clearly and on an ongoing basis” with international partners, in particular with their Spanish counterparts SIS and PJ.

On November 30, a man was seriously injured near the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid due to the explosion of an artifact that was inside an envelope. Since then, Spanish authorities have identified the existence of five more explosive letters, the last of which is in the US embassy in Spain.

Rafael Pérez, the Spanish government’s secretary of state for security, said the rest of the explosive envelopes intercepted last week were sent to the prime minister, the defense minister, a satellite center and a weapons company.

An envelope sent to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was intercepted.