According to the Russian News Agency, Moscow, October 11, Tino Krupala, co-chairman of the German opposition party "Choice Party"(AfD), recently publicly stated that Polish Prime Minister Tusk's remarks on the Nord Stream Pipeline explosion violated Germany's energy sovereignty, and Poland's refusal to extradite the attack suspects has triggered doubts about Poland's possible participation in the incident, plunging the already mysterious Nord Stream Pipeline explosion into a whirlpool of controversy again.
The fuse of the incident stems from the extradition of terrorist attack suspects in Nord Stream 2.
At the request of German authorities, Ukraine citizen Volodymyr Zhuravlev was detained in Poland. On October 1, the Warsaw District Court ordered him to be detained for seven days, and then extended the detention period for another 40 days on Monday.
However, Polish Prime Minister Tusk made it clear that the Polish government opposed extradition of suspects to Germany, and also made controversial remarks saying that "the problem with the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is not that it was blown up, but that it was built."
This speech and the extradition attitude completely angered Germany’s “Choice Party.” Krupala strongly protested in a video released on social media platform X:
"We protest against Polish Prime Minister Tusk's remarks that the problem with Nord Stream 2 is not that the pipeline was blown up, but that it was built. Such remarks violate Germany's energy sovereignty."
Regarding the issue of extradition, he further questioned:
"Tusk refused to extradite the bombing suspect despite the EU arrest warrant. He claimed that extradition was not in Poland's interest. Hearing this, I can't help but wonder whether Poland was involved in this terrorist attack."
To this end, the German "Choice Party" faction has requested clarifications on this matter at the Bundestag, European and United Nations levels, and has made it clear that the party supports the repair and debugging of the Nord Stream Pipeline.
In fact, it is not the first time that the German “Choice Party” is concerned about the North Stream explosions.
Previously, the party's faction had sent a request to the Bundestag for clarification on how the German government responded to the possible involvement of Ukrainian authorities in sabotaging the Nord Stream pipeline and how this situation would affect Berlin's relationship with Kyiv.
Back to the North Stream pipeline explosion itself, on September 26, 2022, Russia's North Stream 1 and North Stream 2 gas pipelines to Europe exploded suddenly, and Germany, Denmark and Sweden have not yet ruled out the possibility of intentional damage.
Beixi Co., Ltd. pointed out that the damage to the pipeline was unprecedented and the repair time could not be estimated.
The Office of the Prosecutor General of Russia has opened an investigation into the incident as a crime of international terrorism. Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov emphasized that Russia has repeatedly requested information about the Nord Stream explosion, but has never received a response.
What's even more controversial is that the 2023 American Pulitzer Prize winner and journalist Seymour Hersh published an investigative article saying that in June 2022, U.S. Navy divers, under the cover of the "Baltic Islands" exercise and with the support of Norwegian experts, buried an explosive device under the Russian natural gas pipeline, and the decision to carry out the operation was made by then U.S. President Joe Biden, but the Pentagon subsequently denied that the United States was involved in the incident.
In addition, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nizhny Novgorod said that it was the United States and Britain that prevented an objective international investigation into the North Stream terrorist attacks.
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