View taken from a Danish F-16 interceptor of the Nord Stream 2 gas leak just south of Dueodde, Denmark in September of 2022. Italian police arrested a suspect Thursday in connection to an explosion caused by the sabotage of the gas pipelines. File Photo by Danish Defence/UPI | License Photo
German officials said Thursday that Italy has arrested a Ukrainian citizen alleged to have helped blow up Europe’s Nord Stream pipeline nearly three years ago.
Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office reported that, based on a European warrant issued by the investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice on Monday, officers of the Carabinieri station in Misano Adriatico in Italy’s province of Rimini took a Ukrainian national into custody.
The person accused, currently only identified as “Serhii K.,” is to be transferred from Italy to stand before the investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice.
Serhil K. has been charged with jointly causing an explosion, anti-constitutional sabotage and of the destruction of buildings, as per German criminal code.
The accused, who is said to have acted with “a group of individuals” allegedly used a yacht rented from a Germany company with the use of phony ID to place explosives on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea near the Danish island of Bornholm in September of 2022.
The resulting explosions heavily damaged the pipelines.
