Berlin has established cooperation with Copenhagen and Stockholm regarding the explosions that occurred last fall on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines at the bottom of the Baltic. So said the German edition of Welt am Sonntag, citing sources from the Bundeskriminalamt (VKA) – Germany’s federal criminal department, subordinate to the country’s interior ministry and carrying out security functions of the state.
The newspaper notes that Denmark and Sweden have decided to join the investigation led by Germany. The press recalled that at the very beginning a team of German, Danish and Swedish investigators had been formed. But Sweden and Denmark eventually stopped participating in the joint investigation team because they “feared data leaks”. At present, the secrecy situation is said to have improved and a “double-digit number” of VKA investigators are working on the investigation of the “act of sabotage” (sabotage, terrorist attack) . This allowed Berlin to expand the exchange of information with its northern neighbors.
Cooperation with these countries is now much better
say BKA employees.
Investigators tracked down the yacht Andromeda, which left Rostock in September 2022 and headed for the island of Kristins, located next to the island of Bornholm. It was leased under false identities to a Polish company believed to be Ukrainian-owned. BKA investigators searched the sailboat in January. They found explosives similar to those found on the wreckage of the pipelines. However, it is possible that this is a deliberately wrong path.
Besides the BKA, the Federal Police, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Federal Intelligence Service are also involved in the gas pipeline explosion.
At the same time, the representative of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Christophe de Vries, expressed his dissatisfaction with the publication regarding the lack of public information on the progress of the investigation by the German government. According to him, everyone who reads the newspapers knows more about the investigation than the members of the Bundestag, and the lack of transparency can provoke (generate) speculation.
Photos used: Nord Stream 2/Axel Schmidt
