Swedish prosecutors have decided to release a vessel belonging to a Bulgarian shipping company after ruling out initial suspicions that sabotage caused damage to an undersea fiber-optic cable between Sweden and Latvia. Damage to the cable running between was detected on Jan. 26 and the vessel was seized by Swedish authorities later that day.
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An investigation into a possible role of the Vezhen ship “has clarified that it is not a case of gross sabotage,” the prosecutors said in a statement. Senior prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said the ship did cause the cable break, but after crime-scene investigations, analyses of confiscated equipment, and the collection of testimonies, “we can say with certainty that this is not a case of sabotage.”
“An investigation is continuing to find out whether other crimes may have been responsible for the cable break,” the statement said.Sweden releases 5 arrested following the killing of an Iraqi who carried out Quran burningsNavibulgar had cited crew accounts that the ship had been sailing in extremely bad weather and that its left anchor was apparently dragging along the seabed.
On Friday, authorities in neighboring Norway inspected a Norwegian-owned and Russian-crewed ship, the Silver Dana, that authorities initially suspected may have been involved in damage to the cable, but laterTrump says Americans could feel ‘some pain’ from tariffs as he threatens more import taxes
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