STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors decided Monday 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 the Latvian city of Ventspils and the Swedish island of Gotland was detected on Jan. 26 and the vessel was seized by Swedish authorities later that day. This was one of a stri…

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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.

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The cargo ship Vezhen did damage a subsea cable linking Sweden and Latvia last month but it was an accident, not sabotage, a Swedish prosecutor said on Monday, adding that the Maltese-flagged vessel had been released.

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Swedish prosecutors decided Monday 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.

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STOCKHOLM - The cargo ship Vezhen did damage a subsea cable linking Sweden and Latvia last month but it was an accident, not sabotage, a Swedish prosecutor said on Monday, adding that the Maltese-flagged vessel had been released.

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Swedish prosecutors have released a vessel after ruling out initial suspicions that sabotage caused damage to an undersea cable between Sweden and Latvia.

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A Swedish prosecutor said on Monday that a cargo ship seized last month did rupture an undersea cable in the Baltic Sea but that it was an accident rather than sabotage.
The severing of the subsea cable linking Sweden and Latvia on Jan. 26 was the latest of several similar incidents in recent months and triggered a hunt for vessels suspected of being responsible.
Senior Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said an investigation found that Vezhen’s anchor …

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Sweden Releases Ship Seized Over Baltic Sea Cable Severance, Rules Out Sabotage

The rupture of an undersea fiber optic cable on January 26 is believed to be due to a combination of faults and weather conditions. A Bulgarian ship was seized as part of the investigation. Source

Survenue le 26 janvier, la rupture d’un câble sous-marin de fibre optique serait due à un ensemble de défaillances et aux conditions météorologiques. Un navire bulgare avait été arraisonné dans le cadre de l’enquête. Source

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Broken cable between Sweden and Latvia: no sabotage, seizure of the ship lifted – INTELLI.NEWS

The Swedish prosecutor's office concluded that the optical cable break in the Baltic Sea was not sabotage and released the ship, which was arrested on suspicion of this. The Swedish Prosecutor's website notes that the incident occurred due to weather conditions, lack of equipment and poor crew training. On the night of January 26, the communication cable between Sweden and Latvia was damaged in the Baltic Sea. At the same time, a preliminary inv…

Шведская прокуратура пришла к выводу, что обрыв оптического кабеля в Балтийском море не был диверсией и отпустила судно, арестованное по подозрению в этом. На сайте прокуратуры Швеции отмечается, что инцидент произошел из-за погодных условий, недостатков оборудования и низкой подготовки экипажа. В ночь на 26 января в Балтийском море обнаружили повреждение кабеля связи между Швецией и Латвией. Тогда же начали предварительное расследование по факт…

Обрыв кабеля в Балтийском море не был диверсией — прокуратура Швеции

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A cable break in the Baltic Sea was not a sabotage — Swedish Prosecutor's Office

It was found that the cable break was caused by the imposition of weather conditions, as well as certain deficiencies in equipment and insufficient maritime training.

Установлено, что к обрыву кабеля привело наложение погодных условий, а также определенные недостатки оборудования и недостаточность морской подготовки.

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