Danes verify ‘extensive damage’ to Baltic Sea pipelines

Danish officers on Tuesday confirmed that there was “extensive damage” to the Nord Stream 1 and a pair of gasoline pipelines within the Baltic Sea off Denmark and that the reason for the harm was “powerful explosions.” In an announcement, the Copenhagen Police mentioned it had carried out quite a lot of preliminary investigations of what it referred to as “the crime scenes,” with help from Denmark’s Armed Forces and in collaboration with, amongst others, the Danish safety and intelligence company.

The company and the police have determined to arrange a joint investigation group which can deal with the additional investigation of the incidents, the police mentioned, including it was “not possible to say when the investigation can be expected to be completed.” Earlier this month, the Swedish home safety company mentioned its preliminary investigation of two additional leaks nearer to its coast “has strengthened the suspicions of serious sabotage” and a prosecutor mentioned proof on the web site has been seized.

Swedish newspaper Expressen printed Tuesday what it claims is a video of the broken pipelines off Sweden and mentioned that a minimum of 50 meters (165 toes) of the steel pipe seems to be lacking The 4 leaks occurred in worldwide however inside the unique financial zone of Denmark and Sweden. The broken Nord Stream pipelines discharged enormous quantities of methane, a potent greenhouse gasoline, into the air for a number of days.