Nord Stream: Denmark also closes the investigation without saying anything
Denmark is closing its investigation into what it described as “deliberate sabotage” of Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022, due to a lack of legal grounds to pursue a criminal case, police in Copenhagen said on Monday. In the end everyone investigated, but no one wants to get to the end. from now on the Nordic countries will no longer have the right to speak of silence near the name of a Mediterranean region.
Gas leaks in each of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were discovered in late September 2022 from infrastructure just outside Swedish and Danish territorial waters in the Baltic Sea.
Nord Stream 2 never went into operation after Germany halted the certification process following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russia, for its part, shut down Nord Stream 1 indefinitely in early September 2022, claiming the inability to repair the gas turbines due to Western sanctions.
An investigation launched by Swedish authorities concluded that the losses were caused by detonations, probably the result of "serious sabotage".
Earlier this month, however, Swedish authorities concluded a preliminary investigation into the Nord Stream explosions, but found they did not have jurisdiction to continue because the accident occurred in international waters and did not involve Swedish citizens . Therefore, Sweden closed the investigation in early February.
Denmark also concluded its investigation on Monday, with Copenhagen police saying in a statement: “The joint investigation conducted by Copenhagen police and the Danish Security and Intelligence Services (PET) into the Nord Stream explosions is over."
Throughout the investigation, the Danish authorities cooperated with relevant foreign partners, Denmark said.
“The investigation led the authorities to conclude that there was intentional sabotage of the gas pipelines. However, the assessment is that there is insufficient basis to prosecute a criminal case in Denmark,” the police said, thus ruling out that Denmark had anything to do, directly or indirectly, with the sabotage, but not revealing who is responsible.
In addition to Denmark and Sweden, Germany also investigated the Nord Stream explosions, but Berlin has not yet concluded its investigation into the sabotage. A government spokesperson told Reuters in early February that Germany was still interested in resolving the case.
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