Sabotage in Denmark?

Sudden power failure on Bornholm island

Created: 10/10/2022 12:29 p.m

By: Tim Vincent Dicke

There is a power outage on the island of Bornholm in Denmark.

There is a suspicion: Was the blackout triggered by sabotage?

Copenhagen – The power went out on the entire Danish island of Bornholm on Monday morning (October 10).

According to the authorities, the undersea cable that supplies the island with energy from Sweden was cut.

It is currently unclear whether this is sabotage.

"At the moment there is no reason to speculate about the cause," said the energy supplier Trefor on its website.

"And we are in the process of clarifying what is responsible for the power failure." Bornholm is around 590 square kilometers in size.

Almost 40,000 people live on the island, which lies south of Sweden.

Power failure in Denmark: Blackout in the morning on Bornholm

The limited blackout happened just before 8 a.m., Trefor wrote.

According to the state transmission system operator Energinet, around 10.30 a.m. two thirds of the households were supplied again, the rest should follow until midday.

According to Swedish and Danish media, a local power station was connected to the grid to restore the supply.

The power went out on the island of Bornholm.

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The cause of the error is still unknown, and they are working flat out to find the problem, according to the Energinet authority, which is responsible for the overall operation of the electricity and gas system in Denmark.

Damaged Nord Stream pipelines lie at Bornholm

The development against the background of the Ukraine conflict and suspected acts of Russian sabotage within Europe is explosive.

At the end of September, a total of four underwater leaks were found in the two Nord Stream pipelines near Bornholm, from which enormous amounts of gas escaped for days.

According to the authorities, at least two explosions under water have occurred before.

The EU and NATO assume sabotage.

The Kremlin had dismissed speculation about Russian participation as "stupid and absurd".

The leaks in the gas lines were discovered by Danish F-16 fighter jets.

They were sent airborne from Bornholm to photograph the area and discovered that bubbles were rising from the water at a point south-east of the island.

After the explosions in the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea two weeks ago, the federal police and navy launched an investigative mission.

Officials were "sent to the Baltic Sea off the island of Bornholm with the support of the Navy and the federal police ship BP 81-Potsdam," confirmed the authority of the

.

A minesweeper from Kiel manned by soldiers and a multi-purpose boat from Eckernförde manned by civilians are involved in the mission.

(tvd/dpa)