Albares affirms that the threats to planes and attacks on refrigerators are "an attempt at hybrid aggression and psychological warfare"

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, assured this Friday that the bomb threats on airplanes and the attacks on refrigerators in Europe in recent days are "an attempt at hybrid aggression and psychological warfare." Furthermore, he has stated that sooner or later it will be known who is behind all these incidents.

Albares made these statements during an interview on TVE after the false bomb threats on airplanes, which affected 27 flights this week, three of them originating or destined for Spain; and by the attacks on the refrigerators of many European supermarkets, in which the temperature has been raised to 50 degrees, spoiling the products.

"It will take some time to know what has happened, but we will know. From my point of view, the most normal thing is to think that we are facing an attempt at hybrid aggression and psychological warfare," said the minister. However, it has not specified when it would be possible to know who is behind these attacks, since they are taking measures so that the initial source "remains in a gray area."

In any case, Albares has maintained that there are "actors in the world who try to weaken Europe" because it is the great bastion of democracy and the "great hope." This fact, he specified, is something that "annoys those who prefer the law of the strongest" and that aims for Europe to "return to the Law of the Jungle." Thus, Albares has considered that these attacks are trying to divide Europeans to weaken the EU project.

He has also made reference to the complaints that there were in the Brazilian elections of operations on digital platforms to interfere in the electoral process and has expressed certainty that this will also occur in the Spanish electoral campaign. "The European Commission takes into account interference in electoral moments, especially fragile moments for societies," he said.