The District Court in Warsaw on Monday extended by 40 days the pretrial detention of Volodymyr Z., a suspect in the Nord Stream explosions, the Polish Press Agency reported.
The suspect, a Ukrainian citizen, has been wanted by Germany over his alleged involvement in the explosions.
“The court rejected the prosecutor’s request for a 100-day pre-trial detention, instead ordering it for 40 days,” his lawyer said. The defendant denied any involvement.
The man was detained on Tuesday in Pruszkow, about 15 kilometers west of Warsaw, under a European arrest warrant issued by a German court.
The District Court in Warsaw on Wednesday granted the prosecutor’s office’s request to detain Volodymyr Z. for seven days.
Piotr Antoni Skiba, a spokesperson for the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office, said the court will decide within the legal 100-day period whether to extradite him to Germany.
On Sept. 26, 2022, the Nord Stream pipelines transporting natural gas from Russia to Europe were ruptured in a series of explosions underneath the Baltic Sea near Sweden and Denmark. Sweden, Denmark, and Germany called the incident a deliberate act of sabotage. Enditem
Source: Xinhua
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