On 12 November, a controlled blast on Avenida de la Constitución in central Seville cleared a suitcase left at a Metrocentro tram stop; police had cordoned off the stretch between Plaza Nueva and Puerta de Jerez. TEDAX specialists carried out the controlled detonation, and authorities later classified the alert as false. Sources at the Government Subdelegation also said the alert was false. The operation temporarily disrupted access along a central tourist and transport corridor.
Another abandoned suitcase led to the evacuation of Podemos’s Seville headquarters on León XIII street. Officers opened it without detonating it, and its contents appeared to be the belongings of a person experiencing homelessness. The incident was also classified as a false alarm, with no confirmed security threat or injuries reported.
Other checks caused temporary disruption without requiring wider evacuations. In Marbella, police cleared the San Pedro Alcántara health centre after a suitcase was found nearby; Policía Nacional TEDAX and canine units were deployed, and the alert was declared false at about 12:40 p.m. The suitcase contained papers. At Zaragoza-Delicias station, officers inspected a possible suspicious backpack after a telephone report. Police also classified that alert as false, with no explosive device reported.
In Arganda del Rey, the Guardia Civil deployed near a school after a report of a suspicious backpack. The school and nearby residential buildings were not evacuated, and no explosives were confirmed. At Galapagar, a suspicious object near a petrol station on Calle Colmenarejo was also found to pose no danger. The town council said the incident was not a bomb warning; it concerned the discovery of a suspicious object.
The Madrid-region checks followed controlled detonations the previous evening and morning: a backpack in Guadarrama and a suitcase in Plaza de España. A previous Guadarrama report described an earlier controlled blast near a petrol station.
In Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, police cordoned off an area beside a restaurant entrance on Calle Barcelona after reports of abandoned bags and belongings. Canine units and TEDAX examined the bags before carrying out a controlled detonation. No explosive material was found. The incidents across Seville, Marbella, Zaragoza, Madrid-region municipalities and Las Palmas were among at least nine suspicious-package responses over roughly 24 hours.
