The explosions that triggered vital injury to the Nord Stream pipelines close to the Danish island of Bornholm in late September had been the results of "gross sabotage," Swedish prosecutors confirmed.
"Analyses which have now been carried out present traces of explosives on a number of of the international objects that had been discovered," public prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, who's answerable for the continuing preliminary investigation into the explosions, mentioned in a press release Friday.
There are not any indications of who's guilty for the incident right now, and the investigation is ongoing.
"The preliminary investigation could be very advanced and intensive. The continued preliminary investigation should present whether or not anybody may be served with suspicion of a criminal offense," the assertion mentioned.
Swedish investigators will proceed to cooperate with home authorities and different nations. The prosecutor's workplace has requested for endurance.
"It will be important that we are able to work in peace and quiet," Ljungqvist mentioned, including he couldn't present additional info and wouldn't be out there to the press.
On 27 September, undersea blasts ruptured each the Nord Stream 1 and a pair of pipelines, main to very large methane leaks.
Though allegations of potential sabotage have circulated for the reason that incident, this marks the primary time a deliberate act to trigger injury to the pipeline has been confirmed.
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