They investigate a complaint about trafficking in explosives at the border with Paraguay

Federal security forces are investigating an anonymous complaint that arrived Friday the 13th on social media from the Argentine Embassy in the United Kingdom. The complaint maintained that there had been a passage ammonium nitrate shipment from the Paraguayan town of Encarnación to its neighbor Posadas, capital of the province of Misiones. And that the objective was to arm explosives.

Indeed, ammonium nitrate is so powerful that the disheartening explosion in the port of Beirut last August, which left 204 dead and more than 5,000 injured to varying degrees, can be recalled. It was stored ammonium nitrate that exploded.

The post comes alongside a Paraguayan police operation in Encarnación, which seized sticks of dynamite and halted the making of a car bomb with which a well-known Brazilian gang sought to free its leaders imprisoned in a prison in the region. .

However, a high-security source pointed out that the facts are different and that the complaint that reached the Argentine Embassy in London concerns “international terrorism”. A statement from Minister Sabina Federic’s security team confirmed the complaint on Saturday afternoon, noting that the “Anonymous message” realized that “the possible target of this explosive would be the Jewish community”.

The first version was published on the Data Clave site, which was able to confirm Bugle high-level government sources, who said it was true that there was a similar complaint in the last few, but clarified that there was no confirmation that the said cargo was actually transported. The complaint was referred to the Federal Supreme Court 6 and is the subject of an investigation by the General Directorate for the International Coordination of the Federal Police, in collaboration with the Antiterrorist Investigation Unit, the other police forces and the National Directorate of Migration.

Sources consulted indicated that “many complaints” are received throughout the year. In this case it was received on the Facebook page of the Argentine Embassy in London, and that Ambassador Javier Figueroa has been transferred to Buenos Aires, after which Interpol also intervened. This newspaper also learned that it was reported among federal forces that the “user of said message” – the carrier of the shipment – is known as Hassan Zein Aldeen, who may also be a “pseudonym”. This material would continue to be moved and there are alerts in police stations.

Minister Sabina Frédéric spoke in the last hours with the president of the DAIA, Jorge knoblovits, who expressed his concern about the complaint. Both spoke of strengthening Jewish community sites – temples, clubs, schools – since, according to the complaint, the transport of this shipment of ammonium nitrate would target the Jewish community. But that line of the complaint is also under investigation and has not been confirmed.

A few days ago, Knoblovits and Frédéric also talked about strengthening the security of community sites. This was after the recent terrorist attack in Vienna, which left five people dead.

With the antecedent of the terrorist attacks against the Israeli embassy (1992, 29 dead) and AMIA (1994, 85 dead), all the events which take place in the Triple border, or in the neighboring areas, always raise awareness. both the Jewish and Security Forces leaders.

Officials handling the information about the complaint lodged with the London Embassy have asked not to alert on an attack, but to let the police investigate. And they recalled that the northern border is also today the scene of a phenomenon in which terrorism is used by organized crime in drug trafficking networks and the two are interdependent.

By the way, this Friday the newspaper Online missions was widely deployed in the assault led by the police and the Ministry of Security in the said province which allowed cancel an attack by the so-called First Capital Command (PCC) emblematic criminal gang of Brazil.

This was going to use a car bomb to free several of its leaders is serving a sentence in Cambyretá prison. It’s close to Encarnacion. And also in Posadas. According to the Misiones newspaper, a dog from the Explosives Division detected a bag containing 12 cartridges of dynamite gel weighing one and a half kilograms each, plus three detonator tubes and rolls of detonating cord.

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