– It is a very sad case that we have to deal with. Both the police and other authorities look very seriously at this and we try to intensively investigate who is behind it, ” says Uffe Stormly, the inspector at the police in Denmark, to the Danish TV 2.
In Denmark, several companies, including Danish Crown, one of the world’s largest köttexportörer, received the threatening letters. According to TV 2, they have received together with the suspicious powder, and a written threat to have its products contaminated in the grocery stores if companies do not pay 300.000 euro in a kryptovaluta.
The Italian newspaper La Repubblica lists similar cases in several other countries. In addition to Denmark and Italy, the Belgium, the Uk, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden.
färdigrättstillverkaren Findus a threat to its headquarters in Malmö, sweden. A letter with powder was received on the evening of the 5 april and the barricade was lifted not until two days later, when the police completed its technical examination of the premises.
the Police were, at the time restrained on the letter, and did not want to go into what the analysis of the powder showed. The matter is now in the Riksenheten against international and organised crime at the public Prosecutor’s office, but the prosecutor Helena Ljunggren remains secretive about the details.
– There is an ongoing investigation now and then I can’t leave a few comments, ” she says.
She would not comment on any links to similar cases in Europe or if they have any suspicious.
during the period around the beginning of april, and, according to La Repubblica, have you been able to see that they are sent from the belgian city of Ghent. At present, however, no suspect has been arrested.
It is still unclear whether the powder in the letters is dangerous or not, but the threats of poisoning, shall apply to the substance oleandrin, which can cause everything from diarrhea to serious heart problems.