Finnish Police Full On-Web site Probe At Broken Baltic

Finnish police stated on Thursday they’d accomplished their crime scene investigation into the harm to a subsea fuel pipeline between Finland and Estonia. 

The Balticconnector pipeline linking Finland and Estonia ruptured earlier this month in what authorities stated might have been a deliberate act of sabotage, reducing off the movement of fuel between the 2 international locations till April not less than. 

Police stated in a press release samples collected on the web site in cooperation with Finland’s armed forces and coast guard would now be analyzed. 

“Though the scene investigation into the harm within the fuel pipeline has been accomplished, investigations and the presence of authorities nonetheless proceed within the space,” the Finnish Nationwide Bureau of Investigation stated. 

“Subsequently, the world surrounding the harm might be broadly examined,” they added.

 (Reuters – Reporting by Anna Ringstrom, modifying by Terje Solsvik)