A diver suspected by German authorities of being involved in blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipeline left Poland for Ukraine at the beginning of July, the press secretary of the Polish Prosecutor General, Anna Adamiak, said. Onet publication.
According to a number of German mass media, the German authorities suspect Volodymyr Z., a Ukrainian diving instructor, of undermining the gas pipeline.
“It is assumed that he, along with three other people, sailed on a sailing yacht from the port of Rostock in the Baltic Sea in September 2022, then went underwater and planted explosive devices on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines. The yacht returned to Rostock after stops in Rügen, Bornholm and Kristiansø in Denmark, as well as Sandhamn in Sweden and Kolobrzeg in Poland,” reports Onet.
The suspect lived in Pruszków near Warsaw, in June the German services demanded his detention.
In turn, the Polish prosecutor’s office confirms that a European arrest warrant has been received from the German side in this case. However, the Polish services did not find the man at his likely place of residence.
“The man crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border at the beginning of July,” the press secretary of the Prosecutor General of Poland reported.
She explained that Germany had just issued a European arrest warrant for the diver, but he had not been entered into the wanted persons database used by the border service, meaning that the German side had not entered his details there. As a result, the Polish border guards did not detain the suspect.
