A Ukrainian national suspected of being one of the masterminds of the 2022 Baltic Sea blasts cannot be extradited to Germany, Italian top court rules.
The explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which carried Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea until Russia cut of supplies at the end of August 2022.
Italy’s top court has rejected the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian man arrested on suspicion of setting off explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022, his lawyer said on Thursday.
Italy’s Cassation Court annulled a previous decision by a Bologna appeals court on Wednesday, which had ordered the extradition to Germany of the 49-year-old suspect, Serhii Kuznietsov.
The Italian top court has now demanded another panel of the same appeals court to reassess the case