COPENHAGEN – Denmark on Monday joined Sweden in last its investigation into the 2022 explosions that broken the Nord Stream gasoline pipelines, saying that “authorities can conclude that there was deliberate sabotage.”
“However, the assessment is that there is not the sufficient grounds to pursue a criminal case in Denmark,” Copenhagen police and the Danish security service, who carried out the investigation together, said in a joint statement.
The underwater detonations on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany, occurred in international waters but within Swedish and Danish economic zones. Sweden earlier said that a state actor was the most likely culprit.
Denmark’s investigation was one of three into the explosions.
Sweden spiked its probe on Feb. 7 on the grounds that “Swedish jurisdiction does not apply,” saying the investigation’s number one function used to be to determine whether or not Sweden or its electorate one way or the other had been concerned. Swedish officers additionally mentioned they passed over to Germany “material that can be used as evidence in the German investigation.”
Germany still needs to make public its conclusions on the detonations.
The supply of the explosions has been a major international mystery.
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