The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry announced the receipt of letters with bomb threats at the embassies
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Five Lithuanian embassies received bomb threat emails this week, the reports turned out to be false, Paulina Levickite, press spokeswoman for the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, told Delfi.
“We are reacting calmly, it resembles an ordinary information attack, then law enforcement will deal with this issue,” said Levitskite.
According to the portal, bomb threats in the courts, in the Vilnius Municipality, the Prosecutor General’s Office, airports, shopping centers and schools in Lithuania were reported on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, the authors of one of the letters demanded to issue visas to Russians.
After sending letters to Lithuanian embassies in different countries, which are not specified, the police are investigating. The suspect faces a fine, restriction of freedom, arrest or imprisonment for up to one year, writes Delfi.
On September 9, the Council of the European Union decided to completely suspend the visa facilitation agreement between the EU and Russia. The European Commission recommended that member countries of the Union increase the time for issuing visas to Russian citizens to 45 days against the current 15, issue them only for travel dates and check all applications for possible security threats.
Later, the foreign ministers of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia decided to take additional measures on their own and agreed on restrictions on the entry of Russians into the Schengen zone through their land borders from September 19.
On December 18 last year, TASS, citing Catalan law enforcement agencies, reported that a suspicious letter had been intercepted in Spain, which was sent to the Ukrainian consulate in Barcelona. In early December, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko reported that nine Ukrainian consulates and embassies in Europe had received parcels with animal eyes. In early January, to the Russian Embassy in Riga came parcel with a substance of unknown origin, Latvijas Radio reported.
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