German investigators have concluded that saboteurs of Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline traveled from Ukraine last year and then returned to the country, according to German investigators quoted by the weekly Der Spiegel this Friday.
Data assessed by experts from the Criminal Investigation Department (BKA) and the Federal Police, including IP addresses, show that the suspects were in Ukraine before and after the attack and communicated from there.
According to security sources cited by the weekly, the message emerging from these investigations is “quite clear.”
On the contrary, there is no indication that the sabotage that disabled three of the four strings of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines as they passed through Danish waters was a false flag attack. organized by Moscow to blame Ukraine as originally proposed.
According to Spiegel, the command that, according to German investigators, is behind the explosion, also studied the possibility of sabotaging the Turkish Stream pipeline, which transports Russian gas through the Black Sea to Turkey, but ended up dismantling it for unknown reasons.
The intelligence services of a number of countries would have warned about this last summer, and would also have warned about the risk of an attack on Nord Stream, which at the time of the attack had already stopped receiving gas intended for Germany.
Neither the German government nor the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, which is investigating the facts, has yet officially commented on the evidence pointing to Ukraine and asked to wait until the process is completed.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faser said she hopes prosecutors will be able to collect enough evidence to charge the saboteurs and bring them to justice.
“These crimes must be brought to justice. It also builds citizens’ confidence in the rule of law,” he told the weekly.
According to previous leaks, German investigators believe the saboteurs left Germany’s northern coast aboard the Andromeda yacht, rented through a Polish travel agency, to plant explosives.
However, it has not yet been possible to clarify whether they received an order from a state body and, if so, whether Ukrainian officials were aware of the operation.
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Source: CM Jornal
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