Berlin (dpa / mv) - According to the federal government, there will be no joint investigative team to investigate the explosions on the Baltic Sea pipelines. Even without such a "Joint Investigation Team", the results of the investigations would be shared with partners, said a spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior on Monday in Berlin.
When asked why the investigation team planned jointly with Sweden and Denmark did not come about, she said that she "could not say at this point". The "Spiegel" had reported that Sweden had rejected this, justifying that the security classification of its investigation results was too high to share them with other countries.
At the end of September, according to the authorities, a total of four underwater leaks were found on the two Nord Stream pipelines, from which enormous amounts of gas escaped for days. The leaks are located near the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm, partly in Danish and partly in Swedish waters. The EU and NATO assume sabotage. The Kremlin had dismissed speculation about Russian participation as "stupid and absurd". Russian President Vladimir Putin himself had spoken of an "international terrorist attack" and indicated that he believed the United States could be behind it.
The German Navy is also involved in the investigations. Findings were shared internationally, even without a joint investigation group, said the spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior. She added: "The difference, I think, is basically the structure, so you form a group where people really sit together, or you exchange closely."
