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Recording by the Swedish Coast Guard: Gas leak in the Baltic Sea (on September 27, 2022)
Photo: Swedish Coast Guard / AP
Denmark has closed its investigation into the explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines.
"There are no sufficient reasons to pursue criminal proceedings in Denmark," said the Danish police.
Therefore, “the Copenhagen police decided to close the criminal investigation into the explosions.”
Before Denmark, Sweden also completed a separate investigation into the pipeline leaks.
After the gas pipes were blown up in September 2022, the Swedish security police investigated gross sabotage and stopped the investigation at the beginning of February because the Swedish authorities were apparently unable to find a specific suspect in their own country.
The Swedish investigators handed over their results to colleagues in Germany.
In this country, the proceedings are conducted by the Federal Prosecutor General and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).
The two Nord Stream twin tubes were damaged by detonations in Swedish and Danish territorial waters in September 2022.
Given the scale of the attacks, investigators quickly assumed that it was sabotage.
Until deliveries stopped, Russia pumped natural gas from Siberia to Germany and other European countries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.
Nord Stream 2 was not put into operation because of the Russian attack on Ukraine.
It is not clear who is responsible for the attacks.
Traces point to Ukraine.
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