El artefacto, de fabricación casera y rudimentaria, causó una explosión significativa. Afortunadamente, el segundo paquete no contenía explosivos. Las autoridades investigan el incidente para determinar la magnitud del daño y los responsables detrás del atentado.
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00:00This is the moment of the explosion, two orders, two packages sent to the Argentine Rural Society, and an attack against La Rural.
00:20With orders sent to the president, Nicolás Pino, and to the vice president of La Rural, Marcos Pereda.
00:29One of the artifacts ended up exploding, the other was not an explosive.
00:34Martín Duran is a security specialist, and we are going to talk to him. Martín, good morning.
00:38How are you? Good morning.
00:41For the type of explosion, what magnitude did that explosive have? I mean, how do you imagine the manufacture, according to the data that is known so far?
00:51Well, it's a bomb package, it's a homemade bomb, it's a bomb made in unauthorized places, that is, in clandestinity, with materials that are not certified and have no plan or anything, right?
01:05It was a box the size of a box of beans, with an estimated average weight of 500 grams.
01:12It had a spring, it was something very rudimentary, which at the time of making the opening, what it causes is a spark, and it makes the ignition, right?
01:23It works like lightning, and it caused the explosion. What we have to determine, now that the authorities are working on it, and the experts, especially, to see if a part of the content exploded or everything exploded.
01:38Because when you see the images of the package, where you see the email address, the name, the label, and so on, it seems like it was not completely consumed.
01:51So, well, that will have to do with justice and the experts. What was an explosion of magnitude for the size of the package, an important explosion.
02:06What does it mean when they point out, Martin, that it did not have a machine gun to generate a greater damage?
02:12Sure, exactly. What I was going to tell you is, when you have this type of homemade bombs, you can put a machine gun, which is bolts, nuts, washers, or any element of that type of characteristic,
02:28which, with the explosion, makes a deflagration, takes them out and expels them with a power, a very important violence, which then crushes everything that is on the way, the wax, cuts, hurts, breaks, and so on.
02:43You can also put a charge, I don't know, a fire charge, so that when that explodes, it sets on fire, or you can put a toxic, neurochemical gas, whatever.
02:53That's why, when it explodes, it releases white smoke and spreads, also like dust, it takes all the people, by protocol, 12 hours to have them in the hospital, I think it was in Fernández, to be able to study them, do chemical tests, blood tests, and so on.
03:12The clothes were taken out, their clothes were taken out, and they were taken to be analyzed elsewhere, to see what type of remains the clothes had. So, well, that's a bit of what happened, and what happened.
03:27When the chemical results of the people, the clothes, the physical experiments that were being carried out, we will be able to have something a little clearer.
03:40Durán, what catches our attention is all the previous movement that this package must have had in the hands of a mail company, and that at that moment it did not detonate, and that the mechanism is ready to achieve its purpose, which is only at the opening.
03:58Does that speak of a sophisticated mechanism, or is it something very basic, very rudimentary? I ask you, more than anything, oriented to whether it allows certain traceability, to detect where the components that allow this could have been acquired.
04:15No, well, this is the issue. The components are very basic, they are very rudimentary, and they can be obtained at any hardware store, they can be obtained, I don't know, they have to have knowledge.
04:29The one who did this is a person who has knowledge. Your question is very good, because the artifacts, being homemade, are very fragile, they do not have the same resistance as, I don't know, an explosive that is made for the armies, or for a company that has to dynamite a bridge, or break down, I don't know, an old building.
04:50So these are, it is not known exactly what resistance they have.
04:56In other words, could it have exploded in the transfer, Martin?
04:59Of course, of course. I wanted to tell you, do you remember that a little while ago, well, a little, 4 or 5 years ago, when they were trying to put an explosive in the collection cemetery, the same manufacturers were manipulating it and it exploded.
05:15It exploded, it caused a very serious injury to the person who was manipulating it and others. That is the problem we have with this type of explosives.
05:26Now, if we do an analysis of what we can see, of the images and so on, we see that, for example, the QR has the label Spalson, it is missing a piece, it does not work, it does not have the 4 components.
05:39Then it has the name of a very important email that, here we have two ways. The first way is, if the person went to take that package and deposited it, sent it to any branch, it will be recorded, because all the branches of this company record, follow documents.
06:00Of course, we are going to say that the document was false and so on, right? But there is a traceability that is going to be done through the analysis, the study of the cameras, the cross-checking of data and so on, right?
06:13Surely they are going to ask for the cameras to see all the people who entered the branch that day. Now, it may also be that, I don't know, the postman, because it is the postman who always goes, according to what the statements of the people who received the package say,
06:28maybe they grabbed it, I don't know, 10 meters before and said, yes, you know what, they left this package, but it is wrong, right? He said, look, just as he had to take another package that the vice-president had asked for, a particular personal request, which was a decoder, he put the two packages together and took them, right?
06:47So he can't have delivered it, so there it will be complicated, but also that person, if he was intercepted by the postman, he will say, no, look at this package, they gave it to me here, and the cameras that are on the public road will provide the images, except that the person who gave him the package or whatever, has had a mountain pass, dark glasses, hat, gloves, and I don't know, so we are not going to clarify it.
07:11With all these elements, the investigation is beginning, so we hope to know the truth and the origin of the explosives.