Noboa denounces another murder attempt after finding “highly” dangerous chemicals in some jams that were given to him

The tension in Ecuador continues growing up. The president Daniel Noboa He assured this Thursday that he was the victim of a new murder attempt, this time through an alleged poisoning through some gifts that contained toxic chemicals. The event occurred during a meeting with farmers that took place last Friday in the coastal province of Los Ríos and adds to the “ambush” that the convoy in which the president was traveling suffered a few days ago.

“There was three different chemicals with a very high concentration and it was practically impossible for these three chemicals to be together at those levels in a particular product. It is impossible that it was accidental, it is impossible that it was the packaging,” Noboa explained in an interview with the network. CNN. In recent weeks, your Government has faced a series of indigenous mobilizations after the elimination of the diesel subsidy.

The products, a tamarind jam, another chocolate jam and a cocoa mistelawere delivered to the president’s team by an entrepreneur, and after routine testing it was determined that they contained “dangerous chemicals.” According to Noboa himself, the Presidential Military House already filed a complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office this Thursday.

The alert arose precisely from the Military House, whose head sent a report last Tuesday to the Secretary of Public Administration, Cynthia Gellibert, in which he detailed that the presidential protocol team received some gifts from an artisan entrepreneur that they were addressed to Noboa and that they were inside a basket.

A physical verification of the basket was immediately carried out and subsequently the eight products it contained began to be reviewed. As a result, it was reported that the security team detected that three of the eight items had “highly dangerous chemicals”says the document.

After analyzing the artifacts in the laboratory, it was determined that the products had thionyl chloride, chloroethanol and anthracene“the same ones that are considered harmful and harmful to health,” mentions the report from the Military House.

The military made contact with intelligence personnel to locate the person or persons who would have delivered said present. The report also highlights that the products delivered did not have “the corresponding health registration for human consumption due to the content of ingredients potentially dangerous“.

President Noboa insisted this Thursday that it is “impossible” that the presence of these chemicals in the gifts “it was not intentional”. “Maybe one of the three could have been found in the packaging due to the same productive activities in the area, but that all three are there and in a high concentration, it is impossible that it was not intentional,” he said.

The governor added that, with the complaint, several tests were presented, including the level of “concentration of the three chemicals” and that now an expert opinion and “an entire legal process” must be carried out to determine responsibilities.

Two weeks ago, Noboa himself denounced an alleged “assassination attempt” when the presidential car was stoned by a group of protesters at the time that the caravan where the head of state was traveling passed through one of the blockades that the population carried out in protest against the economic policies of his Government.