One person was arrested in the operation organized by the police. Civil Guard inside Barcelonawhich one secret production workshop explosives almost got arrested One of the largest seizures of this type with 500 kilos of material Spain. The Civil Guard said in a statement that the detainee was a 41 year old manHe lived in an isolated farmhouse in the municipality of Montmajor in Barcelona’s Bages district, where he set up a farm. secret laboratory
In the agents 468 kilos of explosive premise intervenedOne of the largest seizures of such material to date in Spain, and also chemical products for the same detailing, the wick and 2.2 kilos of explosive mixture ready.
The investigation of this case, “Conditions“, a year ago agents Information Headquarters of the Civil Guard they met through Intelligence Center Against Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO) a suspected transaction of explosive precursors through a platform internet commerce. The work of the Civil Guard led to a 41-year-old man residing in Montmajor, from where he received large quantities of precursors, fuses, electrical equipment and a large number of laboratory supplies.
The Civil Guard explains that explosive intermediates are chemicals in certain concentrations that are mixed with each other or with other products. homemade and illegal explosive production. It states that these properties mean that its trade, acquisition, possession and use are tightly controlled “to prevent diversion for illegal, violent or terrorist purposes.”
In this sense, the Civil Guard qualifies, precisely because of it. dangerousness of finished explosive mixtures, Found intermediates and other chemical products, technical agents participated in the registration of the workshop. disposal of explosives (TEDAX).
In addition to the explosive in the workshop, the agents also found: lab equipment flasks and test tubes of different capacities, electric heating mantle, magnetic stirrers, vacuum pumps, flow controllers, distillation and alembic to increase the degree of concentration of chemical compounds, thermometers and precision balances, as well as a gas mask for protection from dangerous chemical vapors. Found material allowed manufacture of gunpowder or triacetone triperoxide, Also known as the “mother of the devil”, widely used by Islamic terrorists, it is very dangerous and quite destructive.
These operations are one of the most important operations of the Civil Guard in this region, among them the ones that took place in Miranda de Ebro (Burgos) in 2019 or Castilleja de la Cuesta (Seville) in 2021, where secret workshops were held. dismantled for the manufacture of explosive devices and the transport of firearms.