The first inspections carried out by Swedish authorities this week on gas leaks in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, in the Baltic Sea, “strengthen suspicions of sabotage”, with “explosions” and “significant damage”, a source announced this Thursday. from the investigation.
“We can see that there were explosions near Nord Stream 1 and 2 in the Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone, which caused significant damage to the pipelines,” the special prosecutor in charge of the Swedish parallel investigation said in a press release.
“The crime scene inspections reinforced suspicions of aggravated sabotage. There were seizures on the scene that will be investigated,” he added.
In the last week of September, following the discovery of leaks in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, it became known that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which supplies gas from Russia to Germany, had been hit at two leak points in the Baltic Sea, according to Danish and Sweden
Washington and Moscow blamed each other for sabotaging Russian-built gas pipelines.
Danish and Swedish authorities have discovered leaks in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which Russia closed in early September, and in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was never commissioned due to a lack of permission from Germany, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. .
Despite not being operational, the two pipelines of a consortium of the Russian ‘giant’ Gazprom were full of gas.
Source: DN
