Activists from Greenpeace Norden painted slogans on the tanker "Zicorne" in the Baltic Sea off the Swedish island of Gotland on Friday. The action is a protest against the transport of Russian oil. The environmental organization states this in a press release.
The Greenpeace activists sailed out in small rubber boats and have written "oil fuels war" and "people want peace" in white paint on the side of the ship. Swedish police are currently present at the ship. This is reported by the Swedish media SVT.
- We have police officers on site who are working on this together with the coast guard. We are investigating whether there has been damage to a ship off Gotland, says Per Fahlström, spokesperson for the Swedish police's regional command center, to SVT.
The police in Sweden are investigating, among other things, whether the action took place in Swedish or international waters. This is crucial for the further investigation. Swedish police also inform SVT that they are in the process of preparing a damage report.
Shadow fleet
The operation was aimed at the Latvian bunker company Fast Bunkering. Last week, SVT uncovered that Fast Bunkering has sold fuel to passing ships via the ship Zicorne. Satellite data has shown that almost all of the ships that have purchased fuel have been on their way to or from ports in Russia.
At the same time, the discovery shows that most of the ships belong to the Russian shadow fleet. The shadow fleet consists of older and often environmentally hazardous ships that are involved in the Russian export of oil, which, according to Greenpeace, is trying to circumvent Western sanctions against Russia. This is also the basis for the action from Greenpeace.
- The Russian shadow fleet not only poses a serious threat to our valuable oceans, but is also a painful reminder that blood and human lives are the price of our continued dependence on oil, says Sune Scheller, campaign manager at Greenpeace Denmark, in the press release.
Greenpeace wants it to be prohibited to supply the shadow fleet with fuel.
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