“Turning planes into flying torches": Russia lashes out at the West
The US newspaper The Wall Street Journal reports the news. Moscow is accused of organizing the shipment of incendiary devices aboard cargo and passenger aircraft bound for the USA and Canada. Devices concealed in DHL parcels have already caught fire in Germany and England (Europe).
Last July, the Machiavellian technique in question was revealed. The alert was unprecedented, as “modified” packages contained electrical massagers rigged to house a magnesium-based substance, whose extreme flammability could turn an aircraft into a flying torch, reports La Dépêche.
According to European security experts, Russian military intelligence (or GRU) was behind the parcel bombs. It seems that the aim of this operation was to “test the transfer channel for these packages, which ultimately were to be sent to the United States of America and Canada”. Pawel Szota, head of Polish foreign intelligence, points out that, if the packages exploded, the result would have been the death of a large number of people.
These revelations come as no surprise to Western intelligence services, who had already been observing an increase in Russian sabotage operations for several months. Power grids, oil pipelines and sensitive European infrastructures: Russia is multiplying its threats.
Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, firmly denied the accusations, deploring “traditional unfounded insinuations by the media”.
(MH with Manon Pierre - Source : La Dépêche - Illustration : Unsplash)