Swedish prosecutors announced Sunday night that they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea suspected of damaging an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland

  • perestroika@lemm.eeOP
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    3 days ago

    P.P.S.

    The primary suspect was the right one: Vezhen has damage to its anchor. Swedish authorities have boarded it.

    Finnish “Yleisradio” reports here that the owner company admits causing the damage: “anchor fell down in harsh conditions”.

    The “harsh conditions” here in Estonia, about 300 km from the scene, include a wind speed of 1.2 meters per second. :) On an image from the scene, courtesy of YLE, the sea is flat like a glass table. That’s some harsh conditions…

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      2 days ago

      Even if the conditions were harsh, the anchor shouldn’t fall on its own. That far offshore it would’ve been secured.