Russia-backed saboteurs are suspected to be behind the apparent firebomb at a DHL warehouse in Birmingham as part of a plot to create ‘mayhem’ across Britain.
A race to find the suspects behind the fire at the building in Minworth kickstarted as it was similar to device explosions at DHL logistics hubs in Leipzig, Germany.
Four people were arrested by Polish authorities after parcels containing explosives ‘spontaneously ignited or detonated during land and air transport’.
Prosecutor Katarzyna Calow-Jaszewska said the explosives were allegedly sent via courier companies to countries including the UK
She confirmed that the saboteurs’ goal was allegedly ‘to test the transfer channel for such parcels, which were ultimately to be sent to the US and Canada’.
‘The group’s goal was also to test the transfer channel for such parcels, which were ultimately to be sent to the United States of America and Canada,’ the prosecutor’s office said, without saying who was orchestrating the group’s efforts.
Polish authorities confirmed back in October that they had been arrested under suspicion of being involved in international sabotage and a sabotage group.
An international search has been initiated for two more suspects, according to a statement from the national prosecutor’s office.
The arrests coincide with reports by the Wall Street Journal that the devices were ‘electric massagers implanted with a magnesium-based flammable substance’ and ‘part of a wider Russian plot’.
European authorities, including MI6, allege that Russia is behind the expanding campaign of sabotage.
When the WSJ asked Russia for comment about the suspected plot, the Kremlin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov denied the allegations.
He said: ‘We have never heard any official accusations. These are traditional unsubstantiated insinuations from the media.’
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