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Police in Finland have opened an investigation into the breach of a data cable that runs from Finland to Germany via the Baltic Sea.
This is according to the Finnish police, according to the Reuters news agency.
The police suspect that the data cable has been deliberately damaged and that those behind it have deliberately disrupted telecommunications.
The foreign ministers of Germany and Finland issued a statement on Monday expressing their ‘deep concern’ about the break in the cable that runs from Helsinki in Finland to Rostock in 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 an initial investigation into the one case. From the Swedish side, sabotage is suspected.
Germany also suspects that there is sabotage in connection with the damage to the two data cables.
This was said by the country’s defense minister, Boris Pistorius, on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
“No one believes that these cables were cut by accident. I also don’t believe that anchors accidentally caused the damage to the cables,’ he said.
The Chinese cargo ship ‘Yi Peng 3’ has been linked to the breaches.
The breaches have thus been registered at locations that lie on the route that ‘Yi Peng 3’ has sailed since the ship set sail from a Russian port on the Baltic Sea 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, it is a Swedish-led operation.
‘Yi Peng 3’ is on Wednesday afternoon in Kattegat south of Anholt.
According to the Finnish security police Skypo, around 200 submarine cables break in the Baltic Sea every year. Often human error is the cause.
When the two gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2 were damaged in September 2022, however, suspicions quickly arose that sabotage had taken place – partly because of the extent of the damage.
The case about the pipelines is being investigated by German police, while the police in both Denmark and Sweden have stopped their investigations.
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Source: politiken.dk
