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INVESTIGATION. The Russian president, more isolated than ever, accumulates failures in Ukraine. And the risks of a headlong rush are increasing.
By Marc Nexon, Julien Peyron (in Bornholm, Denmark) and Katia Swarovskaya
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LMonday, September 26, an unknown number appears on Jakob Trost’s phone screen. The former police officer has recently become the mayor of Ronne, capital of the Danish island of Bornholm. In a meeting, he refrains from answering. Then comes a text message signed by a name that doesn’t mean anything to him either. Discreetly, he types this one into Google and discovers that the person trying to reach him is a senior official at the Ministry of Energy in Copenhagen. The mayor gets up, excuses himself and goes out to call back his interlocutor. He learns, a little ahead of the rest of the world, the worrying news: a drop in pressure has been observed in the Nord Stream 2 underwater gas pipeline, which connects Russia to Germany and passes off Bornholm , at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. His interlocutor gives him…
GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/sputnik/AFP – Grigory Sysoev/Sputnik/ABACA – Julien Peyron/ “Le Point”
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