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Sweden rejected the idea of sharing its findings from the
investigation into the incidents on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas
pipelines with Germany and Denmark, referring to its high security
classification level, Der Spiegel reported on Friday citing
sources, reports citing .
The weekly said that Sweden declined to establish an
international joint investigation team to look into the incidents
on the Nord Stream system. According to the magazine, Sweden
justified its refusal by claiming 'the confidentiality level of the
results of its investigation was too high to share them with other
states.'
However, as Der Spiegel points out, Sweden had not initially
commented on the issue. Speaking about Sweden's refusal, Berlin
said that it still hopes for cooperation with local authorities.
Primarily, the German investigators need to assess images of the
German army's Sea Cat underwater drone, which reportedly shows a
larger crater, indicating a powerful explosion.
Moreover, most of the pipeline had been smashed and the current
might have washed some parts of the pipe away after the incident.
The weekly says that the German authorities believe after
conducting an initial analysis that an explosive device equivalent
to 500 kilos of TNT might have been used for the blast.
Earlier in the day, Germany's ARD television channel reported
citing sources in the German government that Germany, Sweden and
Denmark gave up plans to jointly investigate the sabotage at the
Nord Stream pipelines and will do it separately instead. A German
Interior Ministry spokesperson told reporters that the German
Federal Police had completed investigative activities on the
scene.
The WDR and NDR public broadcasters reported that the German
Federal Police, alongside the German Navy, began investigating the
sabotage on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines on October 7. On
the same day, two German vessels set sail towards the Danish island
of Bornholm carrying divers to document the damage to the
pipes.
Four leaks were discovered on the Nord Stream gas link, with the
most recent one pinpointed by Sweden's coast guard. Earlier, the
Nord Stream AG company reported that three threads of the Nord
Stream 1 and 2 offshore gas pipelines had suffered unprecedented
damage on September 26. Swedish seismologists later revealed that
two explosions had been recorded along the Nord Stream pipelines on
September 26. After that, investigators of the FSB of Russia opened
a criminal case on an act of international terrorism in connection
with the explosions.
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