Canadian police said that they searched an apartment in a suburb of Montreal, east of the country, associated with a woman who was arrested at the US-Canadian border, to send parcels containing the poisonous "Ricin" to the White House, and to 5 other addresses in Texas, south of the United States.
The inspection of the apartment in a southern suburb of Montreal came at the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), after the US authorities arrested a woman on the day before Sunday, on the border with Canada near Buffalo, New York State, on suspicion that she sent this poison. The killer mailed to the address is the White House.
The 53-year-old woman, who was carrying a firearm at the time of her arrest, is scheduled to appear before a New York City court today to face federal charges, and Reuters reported, citing two sources, on Monday that the woman has dual Canadian and French nationalities.
A special unit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which includes experts in chemical, nuclear and biological threats and explosives, searched an apartment in the Lungoy district, south of Montreal.
"We believe that 6 letters in total were sent, one to the White House and five to Texas," Canadian policeman Charles Bowery said, speaking in front of the apartment, adding, "We cannot confirm that she resided (in the apartment), but she is related to it."
The toxic substance ricin is extracted from castor seeds (Reuters)
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in Hidalgo County, Texas, said parcels containing ricin were sent to 4 policemen, and Eddie Guerra, the county police official, said in a tweet on Twitter, "I cannot make more statements at this time because there is an ongoing federal investigation." the case".
Last week, the authorities intercepted a parcel addressed to US President Donald Trump that contains the toxic "ricin" substance. Mail letters of the White House are being sorted and examined at an outside facility before they are delivered, and two tests were conducted to confirm the presence of this substance in the parcel.
And "ricin" is a highly toxic substance, and if ingested, inhaled, or injected, it causes nausea, vomiting, and internal bleeding in the stomach and intestines, followed by failure of the liver, spleen and kidney functions, which leads to death.
Ricin is found naturally in castor seeds, but it takes active action to treat these seeds to turn them into a biological weapon, and this substance can lead to death within a period ranging between 36 and 72 hours of exposure to a small amount of it the size of a pin head, and there is no known antidote. For ricin.