Germany should name pipelines saboteur

Denmark announced on Monday that it had ended its investigation into the explosions that damaged the underwater Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022, with the Danish authorities saying the "comprehensive and complex" probe jointly carried out by the Copenhagen Police and the Danish security service concluded the blasts were acts of sabotage, but they did not have sufficient grounds to pursue a criminal case.

The announcement came after Sweden closed its investigation into the explosions earlier this month. While its investigation came to the same conclusion, Swedish officials went so far as to say that a state actor was the most likely culprit. But they too refused to point the finger at the perpetrator, saying the country didn't have jurisdiction.

The two countries' investigation materials remain confidential, but Sweden has said it had handed over to the German authorities "material that can be used as evidence" in investigation that Germany is carrying out.