Italian Court of Appeal today ratified the arrest of a Ukrainian man who is suspected by the German authorities as a coordinator of the group who in the three gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in 2022, his lawyer said.
Former soldier and 49 -year -olds the suspect for sabotage
The 49 -year -old man, whose full name was announced in court, but is referred to as Sergi K., according to German privacy law, was arrested on Thursday near the Italian city of Rimini with a European arrest warrant.
The Bologna Court of Appeal, about 120 kilometers northwest of Rimini, announced that it will meet again on September 3 to consider its possible version in Germany, although the decision may not be taken on the same day.
The man told the court that he was a former soldier, his lawyer told Reuters by phone.
Sergi K was a member of a saboteur group says German prosecutor’s office
A video released shows him wearing handcuffs during his transfer from Rimini to Bologna Court, and make a provocative gesture with three fingers representing the national symbol of Ukraine in the trident.
He was a member of a group of people who placed mechanisms in the pipelines near the Danish island of Bornenholm in the Baltic Sea, according to a statement issued by the German prosecutor’s office on Thursday.
It faces charges of synergy with the aim of causing explosion, sabotage and destruction of important infrastructure.
The arrest took place at a time when Kiev is holding strong diplomatic discussions with the United States on how to end the war in Ukraine without significant territorial concessions in Russia.
Carabiniera Italian police arrested the man in San Clemente, a small town near Rimini on the coast of the Adriatic of Italy, where he vacationed with his family, acting on the basis of a European arrest warrant.
According to the German Public Prosecutor’s announcement, the arrested and his associates sailed from Rostok on the coast of northeast Germany, boarding a sailing boat to attack. The ship was rented by a German company with fake identities through intermediaries.
