DHL said it was taking steps “to protect its network, people and assets, as well as customer cargo.”
Russia is planning terrorist attacks aboard cargo or passenger planes bound for the United States and Canada. The Wall Street Journal reported this on Monday, November 4.
In July, two devices sent through the postal service exploded at DHL logistics centers in Leipzig, Germany and Birmingham, England. According to Western intelligence agencies, these two devices are part of a covert Russian operation, which ultimately aims to start a fire on board a civilian aircraft.
“European investigators and spy agencies learned how the devices were made. They were electric massagers filled with a flammable magnesium-based substance. They were part of a Russian conspiracy,” the WSJ wrote.
Security officials said the electric massagers sent to the UK from Lithuania appeared to be a test attempt to figure out how to smuggle such incendiary devices onto planes bound for North America.
It is noteworthy that the Polish National Prosecutor’s Office announced the arrest of four people in connection with the fires – the country’s authorities accused them of participating in sabotage or terrorist operations on behalf of foreign intelligence.
“The group’s goal is also to test the transmission channel for such packages, which will ultimately be sent to the United States of America and Canada,” the prosecutor’s office said.
The publication noted that Poland has not named the people arrested in connection with incidents involving incendiary devices. Their nationalities remain unknown.
As we have already written, the German security forces have warned about “unconventional incendiary devices” sent by unknown persons through cargo delivery services.
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Source: korrespondent
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