It's a spy thriller that has the potential to change the course of international politics: A year ago, a secret commando blew up the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Since then, investigators have been searching for the perpetrators. The leads they have found are extremely politically sensitive.

only a handful of investigators at most have been assigned to work on the Nord Stream case on a full-time basis.

the perception among investigators is that the will to solve the case is not particularly pronounced in the capital. Politically, it is easier to live with what happened if it remains unclear who is behind the attacks.

  • @severien
    15•1 year ago

    Yeah… I always suspected it was Ukraine, since what would Russia gain from destroying it?

    Weirdly enough, I think it might have benefited Germany by removing the insane option to bow to Russia’s blackmail. Just the debate might destabilize the government / society. With NS gone, there wasn’t any question.

    • morry040
      4•1 year ago

      If it was Russia, a possible motive would be so that they frame the US for blowing it up in the hope that Europe would then blame the US for destroying the supply of gas to Europe. One of the biggest goals of Russia’s disinformation campaigns is to hurt relations between the US and Europe by portraying the US as the bad guy.

      • @severien
        1•1 year ago

        A one weird thing is that Russia surprisingly didn’t push this issue very hard. I expected a lot of Russia-sponsored propaganda and finger-pointing in the German mediaspace, but there wasn’t that much.