Nord Stream Sabotage: Investigation Commission Overdue
On September 26, 2022, three strings of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipelines were destroyed by explosive devices. Since then, a fierce dispute has erupted over the authorship of this suspected terrorist attack on a critical energy infrastructure. Especially since the publications of the world-renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh at the beginning of February 2023, which are intended to prove the perpetration of the USA on the orders of US President Biden, the pressure to clarify the course of events of this immense act of sabotage has increased dramatically. Since then, there has been much back and forth, but to the astonishment of many, no results have yet been presented. The patience of those who want to know the truth is fading fast, and the credibility of the parties involved in the investigation, including Germany, is diminishing rapidly. There has been, among other things, a topical debate in the German Bundestag and a special session of the UN Security Council calling for the establishment of an international commission of inquiry led by the UN and sharply criticizing the lack of any investigative results from the institutions active to date. Such an investigative commission should be established as soon as possible.
