Drones in Denmark – arrests on suspicious ship

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Drones in Denmark – arrests on suspicious ship

Who is behind the drone incidents in Denmark? A suspicious tanker is targeted by the investigators- in a completely different EU and NATO country.

After the repeated drone alarm in Denmark, French military forces applied a suspicious ship and reported two people. It was the captain and the first officer of the ship, the broadcaster France Info reported, citing the responsible public prosecutor.

They could have presented no evidence of the “nationality of the ship” and the crew had refused to follow instructions, the public prosecutor’s office of the German Press Agency said. A video that was seen on TV 2, among other things, showed how soldiers were on board the ship.

The ship “Boracay”, which is traveling under the flag of the Benin, is said to be part of the Russian shadow fleet and drove through Danish waters when drones had caused several accidents at Danish airports last week, among other things at the important airport of Copenhagen, two days later also in the west Denmark.

The tanker, who is also known as “Pushpa”, was at sea on Wednesday off the western French coast on Wednesday. The shadow fleet means tankers and other cargo ships, which Russia uses to avoid sanctions, for example during oil transport.

The Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said late in the evening about a question about the ship during an informal EU summit in Copenhagen that she could not comment on specific investigations. In general, there have been major problems with the Russian shadow fleet for a long time, especially in the Baltic Sea, she said.

It is still unclear who is behind the repeated drone alarm in Denmark. The Danish investigators assume that a “capable player” is responsible for this, i.e. someone with the necessary skills and the possible intention to create unrest in NATO country. The suspicion fell on a involvement in Russia – accusations that the Kremlin had rejected as “bottomless”.

It is also the assumption that the drones could have been controlled from a ship – possibly those that are counted as the so -called Russian shadow fleet. Several different ships had recently been mentioned in Danish media, including the one that the French soldiers are now entering.