No arrests in Poland
Poland’s Prime Minister demands apology from Nord Stream “initiators”
17.08.2024, 22:44
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A man suspected of being involved in the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines escapes to Poland despite an arrest warrant from Germany. This raises the question of whether the Polish authorities are cooperating sufficiently in the case. Prime Minister Tusk’s reaction to X is anything but self-critical.
A few days after an arrest warrant was issued against a Ukrainian in the case of pipeline sabotage in the Baltic Sea, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has commented on Nord Stream. “To all initiators and patrons of Nord Stream 1 and 2: The only thing you should do now is apologize and be quiet,” Tusk wrote on X. Several explosions damaged and interrupted the two gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2 at the end of September 2022.
There are still different speculations about the perpetrators and masterminds of the sabotage. The Russian-German project was politically highly controversial – and not just since Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022. Poland has always opposed the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
The head of the National Security Office in Warsaw, Jacek Siewiera, commented on Tusk’s message on X, saying: “Bad news for those addressed: there is a rock-solid consensus on this issue in Poland.” He added a winking smiley.
On Wednesday it became known that the Polish public prosecutor’s office had received a European arrest warrant from the Federal Prosecutor’s Office to arrest the suspect, who was last in Poland but is said to have fled from there to his home country. After the arrest warrant became known and the suspect left the country, the question arose in Germany as to whether the Polish authorities were cooperating sufficiently in solving the act of sabotage.