On Tuesday, the Italian court ordered a Ukrainian to issue a Ukrainian suspected of coordinating the Nord Stream pipeline attacks in 2022. The man denies the accusations and plans to appeal against the decision. According to Reuters and AFP reports, TASR reports.
- The Italian court ruled on the publication of a Ukrainian to Germany.
- The Ukrainian blames the Nord Stream pipeline coordination.
- The accused Serhij K. denies participation and plans to appeal.
- The German prosecutor’s office claims that the group carried out the act in September 2022.
- The investigation indicates the involvement of the Ukrainians to attack with a rented yacht.
The man was arrested in August near the Italian city of Rimini based on a European arrest warrant. German Federal Prosecutor’s Office She accused the Ukrainian identified as Serhij K. of causing an explosion and sabotage. According to her, it was part of a group that placed explosives on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines near the Danish Bornholm Island in the Baltic Sea in September 2022. Serhij K. was reportedly coordinator of the whole event.
Detained in court in Bologna claimed that At that time he was in Ukraine and it was this year for family reasons. His lawyers for news agencies on Tuesday confirmed that the Supreme Court of Italian will be appealed against the decision of the Bologna Court of Bologna.
The investigation of the German bodies came to the conclusion that The attack on the pipeline was carried out by a group of Ukrainians consisting of five men and one woman. They probably rented a yacht attack, which sailed from the German city of Rostock and Serhij K. He used false identity documents.
Both pipelines were pressed at the time of the attack, but as a result of the invasion of Russian forces into Ukraine, which started in February 2022, it was not carried out. No one has signed up for responsibility and Ukraine denied any participation.
According to Der Spiegel, Serhij K. is a former agent of the Ukrainian secret service SBU. The Italian authorities are investigating whether it was also involved in attacks on the ships of Russian so -called. shadow fleet in the Mediterranean.
Last year, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office issued an arrest warrant for another Ukrainian Volodymyr Z., a diving instructor whose last known address was in Poland. According to several media, it was reportedly one of the divers who set up explosive devices. A married couple owned by a diving school was also supposedly involved in the sabotage.
