The owner of the mobile phone used to make the botched warning call ahead of the car bomb attack at Navarra University last Thursday, has been released following his arrest in Bilbao last Friday.

Around twenty people were injured in the blast, which also caused material damage estimated at around four million euros.

A source close to the investigation revealed that the suspect is a well-known petty criminal with a history of drug-trafficking and shady mobile phone dealings, but with absolutely no links to ETA.

It seems the mobile phone was acquired by the suspect in Bilbao last May, although he initially denied this when initially questioned.

Police detain owner of mobile used in campus bombing
By: thinkSPAIN
Saturday, November 1, 2008

The owner of the mobile phone used to make a warning call ahead of the car bomb attack at Navarra University in Pamplona last Thursday morning, has been transferred to Madrid following his arrest in Bilbao yesterday.

It has been confirmed that the call was made at 9.50am to the offices of the DYA road traffic information organisation in Vitoria, warning that a car bomb had been left "at the university campus," without specifying which one.

Just over an hour later, a 40kg device packed inside a white Peugeot 306 that had been stolen the previous day from Zumaya, detonated in a car park, injuring around twenty people and causing extensive material damage. 

Several injured in unannounced car bomb attack
By: thinkSPAIN
Thursday, October 30, 2008

A car bomb attack at Navarra University in Pamplona this morning has left at least seventeen people injured, ten cars on fire, and several other vehicles damaged.

It seems that most of the injured were hit by flying glass. 

The bomb went off, without prior warning in a car park behind the Edificio Central, near the library and the Faculty of Journalism, at around 11am.

Hundreds of students and staff have been evacuated from the area after a telephone warning of a second bomb.

The attack comes just days after three ETA terror suspects were detained in Pamplona.

If it is confirmed that ETA is behind this attack, this would be the sixth time that the separatists have targeted the university.

Detained terror suspects 'had explosives and were ready to strike'
By: thinkSPAIN
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Interior minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, has told Congress this morning that four ETA suspects arrested during overnight raids in Pamplona and Valencia, "had weapons, explosives, and information about possible targets, and were preparing an imminent attack."
 
Describing the operation as "a preventive measure that has avoided a lot of pain," the minister added that "prevention is better than the cure."
 
Two handguns, and 100kg of various explosives, including pentrite, nitromethane and powdered aluminium (the basic ingredients of amonitol), which has been used in numerous previous ETA attacks, have been seized so far.
 
It has been confirmed that Araitz Amatriain, who was the only one of the four arrested in Valencia, her boyfriend, Xabier Rey, who was detained in Pamplona old town, and Sergio Boado, who was seized in Añorbe, were all previously unknown to the police.
 
The fourth, Aurken Sola Campillo, was sentenced to serve fifteen months in jail in 2005 by the High Court in Madrid for collaborating with a terrorist organisation.