The Swedish investigation of the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. as with that of Denmark, has proceeded “slower than molasses in January” for month after month. So, the comments of Sweden’s lead investigator, prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, made to Reuters yesterday, that they are convinced the “absolute main scenario” has to involve a state actor, came seemingly out of the blue. He said further that their investigators had determined the type of explosives used, and that it ruled out “a very large number of actors.”
Such comments would indicate that Sweden, unlike Germany, is not willing to subscribe to the ‘mysterious private boat’ narrative, proffered by anonymous U.S. intelligence actors. That narrative appeared in the wake of Seymour Hersh’s devastating account of the Biden administration’s leading role in blowing up the pipelines. And Sweden’s comments yesterday surface in the wake of Hersh’s followup analysis of the ridiculous elements of the ‘mysterious private boat’ concoction.
Otherwise, while Ljungqvist’s said that the Swedish investigators are unlikely to be able to prove which state actor carried out the sabotage, his explanation pointed at a country with experience in multiple levels of deception: “We believe it will be rather difficult to determine who did this. The people who did this have probably been aware that they would leave clues behind and probably took care so that the evidence would not point in one direction, but in several directions. That makes it difficult to clearly point to one actor.”