THE ASSAULT ON THE NORD STREAM PIPELINE: AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME OF A STATE CHARACTER. ARTICLE ONE

Author(s): Sreto Nogo, Dragan Manojlovic

Rubric: Relevant aspects of criminal law, criminal proceedings and criminalistics

DOI: 10.21777/2587-9472-2024-2-93-101

Release: 2024-2 (42)

Pages: 93-101

Keywords: Nord Stream, pipelines, sabotage, crime, the person who committed the crime, international crime

Annotation: The article analyzes the nature of the crime within the framework of scientific approaches, as a result of which pipelines laid in the Baltic Sea from the mainland of the Russian Federation to the mainland of the Federal Republic of Germany, known as Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, were violently damaged; the possibilities of determining the perpetrators of this crime are explored. The concealment of information and its “distortion” by the world media, the silence of one part of the international community and the abstention from assessing this crime by a number of permanent and non-permanent members of the UN Security Council at a meeting held on March 27, 2023, the failure of the international decision to launch the investigation process at the international level, actually show that a multi-level controlled security, intelligence and information operation in the direction of interference (physical, geographical), infrastructural interdependence, interdependence in the field of mass media, the interdependence between the crime and the perpetrators. The investigation shows that this criminal act can be classified as an international State crime, that the crime was committed by an alliance of States organized in the form of a criminal association. The results also show the intention of the perpetrator, under the auspices of the UN Security Council, to exclude the possibility of an independent “criminal investigation”, counting on the “pas- sage of time”, which may interfere with obtaining relevant evidence. Of all the above, the attack on the “Northern Stream” pipelines is a complex crime that has shown the vulnerability of the infrastructure through which goods and services are exchanged across the waters of the seas and oceans, as it does not fall under the sovereignty, which means that they are not under the direct protection of the national jurisdiction of States. The commission of these crimes may threaten not only economic security but also the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States.

Bibliography: Sreto NO., Dragan MA. THE ASSAULT ON THE NORD STREAM PIPELINE: AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME OF A STATE CHARACTER. ARTICLE ONE // Journal of Legal Sciences. – 2024. – № 2 (42). – С. 93-101. doi: 10.21777/2587-9472-2024-2-93-101