Police in Finland have opened an investigation into the rupture of a data cable that runs from Finland to Germany via the Baltic Sea. This was reported by the Finnish police according to the news agency Reuters.
Police suspect that the data cable was deliberately damaged and that those responsible deliberately disrupted telecommunications. The foreign ministers of Germany and Finland issued a statement on Monday expressing their "deep concern" about the rupture of the cable that runs from Helsinki, Finland, to Rostock, Germany.
Both a Swedish-Lithuanian and a Finnish-German data cable have been damaged in the Baltic Sea in recent days. Swedish police have begun a preliminary investigation into the case involving the cable between Sweden and Lithuania. Sweden suspects sabotage.
Germany also suspects sabotage in connection with the damage to the two undersea data cables. This was stated by the country's Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, according to Reuters on Tuesday.
- No one believes that these cables were cut by accident. I also do not believe that anchors accidentally caused the damage to the cables, the Defense Minister said before a meeting in Brussels.
Chinese ship suspected
The Chinese cargo ship "Yi Peng 3" has been linked to the breaches. The breaches have been registered in places that are on the route that "Yi Peng 3" has sailed since the ship set sail from a Russian port on the Baltic coast near St. Petersburg.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Danish Armed Forces announced on the social media X that it is present at "Yi Peng 3". According to DR, this is a Swedish-led operation. "Yi Peng 3" is located in the Kattegat south of Anholt on Wednesday afternoon.
According to the Finnish security police Skypo, around 200 submarine cables break in the Baltic Sea every year. Human error is often the cause.
When the two gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2 were damaged in September 2022, suspicions quickly arose that sabotage had occurred - partly because of the extent of the damage. The case regarding the pipelines is being investigated by German police, while the police in both Denmark and Sweden have closed their investigations.
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