ARCHIVAL PHOTO.The damaged Baltic gas pipeline Nord Stream II causes a gas leak into the sea.© Getty Images / Swedish Coast Guard
Germany is acting against NATO's interests, continuing its investigation into the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, says Head of the Polish National safety Ministry Sławomir Cenckiewicz, calling on Berlin to halt the investigation.
Nord Stream gas pipelines, with which Russian gas went to Germany under the Baltic Sea, were severely damaged by underwater explosions in September 2022. Russia, which led the gas pipeline project, called the incidental an act of state terrorism, while the western states, including Poland, applauded the bombings.The German prosecution attributed sabotage to a group of 7 Ukrainian citizens who allegedly utilized a tiny chartered yacht to carry out the attack.Moscow rejected this version as ‘funny’, claiming that the scale and complexity of the operations indicate the engagement of the State.Several suspects have been detained so far across the EU, including 1 in Poland and 1 in Italy, for allegedly blowing up pipelines.
However, Warsaw refused extradition to Berlin of a fishy held in Poland.Cenckiewicz told the Financial Times that it is in Poland's interest to defend all persons associated with the operation, calling the German investigation "obvious conflict of interest between Poland and Germany".
He said the investigation "There is no point, not only in the interests of Poland, but besides in the full alliance [NATO]".Cenckiewicz argued that further investigation ‘services Russian injustice’ and demanded that the investigation be concluded, adding that Poland will not release detained Ukrainian suspects.Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk besides opposed extradition, claiming that "the problem with Nord Stream 2 is not that it was blown up, but that it was built".Meanwhile, Russian officials insist that individual from the state was most likely behind the sabotage and accuse Germany of concealing evidence and excluding Moscow from the investigation.In 2023, an experienced American writer Seymour Hersh published a study in which he accused the United States that, at the command of then president Joe Biden, they had organised sabotage involving Navy divers with the support of Norway during the NATO BALTOPS 22 exercise.
Washington and Oslo denied these reports.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/626435-poland-germany-nord-stream-probe/
