Denmark says 'hard to imagine' leaks in Nord Stream pipeline 'are accidental'

MADRID, 27 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, stated this Tuesday that "it is difficult to imagine" that the gas leaks registered in the last hours in the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline "are accidental", after the Kremlin has asked not to rule out any possibility.

Frederiksen stressed that "the possibility of sabotage cannot be ruled out" and said that, although "it is early to draw conclusions", it is "an extraordinary situation". "There are three leaks, so it's hard to imagine it could be accidental," she said.

"It is something unusual and I would like to say that we, as part of the Government and the authorities, take it very seriously," said the Prime Minister in statements to the Danish public television channel, DR, within the framework of her visit. official to Poland.

Hours earlier, the operator of the Nord Stream, Nord Stream AG, has indicated that the damage suffered by three of the pipes late on Monday "is unprecedented", after a gas leak in one of the sections of the Nord Stream 2 and a loss of pressure in the Nord Stream 1, without the causes being known for now.

During the afternoon of Monday, the Danish authorities detected a gas leak in one of the sections of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on the Danish island of Bornholm. Hours later, the Nord Stream 1 submarine gas pipeline detected a drop in the pressure of the gas from Russia sent to Germany and that affects the two lines of the pipeline.