The intrepid reporters of Germany’s Der Spiegel informed their readers yesterday that they succeeded in locating the very yacht that, earlier, they had claimed was the key to the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines. It turns out that it was just sitting there, anchored on Germany’s northeast coast of the Baltic Sea. The charter firm that had rented the yacht three weeks prior to the pipeline explosion evidently uses the site to anchor boats that they rent.
So, evidently, the big news is that the boat that the German authorities supposedly tested in January hasn’t disappeared since then. It is worth recalling that the key evidence supposedly linking the boat to the sabotage is the report that alleged traces of ‘explosive’ material were found on the surface of a table on the boat.
But Spiegel doesn’t stop there. Apparently the rental company, still in business, “supposedly has the number of [a crew member’s] ID document and boating license details. Der Spiegel reveals that an email address used by one of the crew “could, according to Der Spiegel’s investigation, point to Ukraine” — but warns that one must be wary of phony evidence planted on the scene.
