According to DPA, Reuters, Agence France-Presse and other media reports, Polish prosecutors confirmed on the 14th that Poland has received a European arrest warrant from Germany, asking Poland to help arrest a Ukrainian citizen suspected of participating in the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in 2022, but this person is no longer in Poland.
According to Anna Adamiak, a spokeswoman for the Polish prosecutor's office, German authorities sent a European arrest warrant to the regional prosecutor's office in Warsaw, Poland's capital, in June, in connection with German procedures for handling the case involving the Ukrainian suspect. The suspect was last known to have entered Poland from Ukraine in July, but was not found during a search of his home.
In accordance with Polish law, prosecutors did not disclose the full name of the suspect, calling him only "Vladimir Z." "In the end, Vladimir Z was not arrested because he crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border and left Polish territory in early July." Adamiak replied in an email to reporters.
She explained that the suspect was able to cross the border freely because the German authorities did not enter his name into the database of wanted persons, "which means that the Polish border guards have no way of knowing and no reason to arrest Vladimir Z."
German "Die" weekly, "Sueddeutsche Zeitung", German TV 1 reported earlier on the 14th that German investigators believe that in the "Nord Stream" gas pipeline was deliberately destroyed in 2022, a group of people responsible for diving into the water to install explosive devices on the pipeline, the wanted Ukrainian suspected of participating. The German Federal Prosecutor General has obtained an arrest warrant for the Ukrainian, who was believed to be in Poland at the time of the warrant.
A spokesman for the German justice ministry declined to comment on the reports.
According to the above three German media reports, the German investigation believes that a man and a woman who are also Ukrainian citizens are suspected of participating in the destruction of the "Nord Stream" pipeline and may also dive to install explosive devices, but the German side has not issued arrest warrants for these two people. All three said the source of the information was "a foreign intelligence agency."
The news disclosed by the Polish side is the latest development known to the outside world in the "cold case" investigation of the "Nord Stream" pipeline explosion for nearly two years. On September 26, 2022, Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, the Baltic Sea undersea gas pipelines connecting Russia and Germany and other European countries, suffered a violent underwater explosion near the waters of Denmark and Sweden, and a large number of natural gas leaks, after the incident, a total of four leakage points were found in the two groups of pipelines, which are suspected to be man-made sabotage.
Germany, Denmark, Sweden and other countries involved in the investigation refused to allow Russia to join the investigation. Denmark and Switzerland announced in February that they had closed their investigations without identifying any suspects.
"Nord Stream -1" was originally Russia's main natural gas pipeline to Germany, and "Nord Stream -2" after completion in 2021, because of the United States obstruction, the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, European and American sanctions against Russia and other factors, never really put into use. The explosion of the "Nord Stream" pipeline further damaged the economic ties between Russia and Europe, resulting in a tight supply of natural gas in the EU market and a high price. But questions remain about who is behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline.
Last year, well-known US investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh broke the news with unnamed sources that the Nord Stream pipeline bombing was planned by US intelligence and approved by President Joseph Biden, and explosives were planted by US Navy divers and detonated after Norwegian Navy planes dropped sonobuoys.
However, the US and German media, citing US and German officials as sources, said the bombing may have been carried out by a Ukrainian group and that the Ukrainian government was not necessarily aware of it.
Germany informed the UN Security Council last July that its investigation had found traces of explosives on a yacht that it suspected might have been used to carry out damage to Nord Stream.
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