Bornholm

I come from a family of fish smokers and gastronomically interested people, not by any means chefs or fine dining lovers or anything like that, but very traditional peasant kind of food and fisherman's food.

And on Bornholm there's lots of smokehouses, a vast tradition of herring fishery and also these smokehouses smoking the herring.

a commodity back from medieval times.

There's a lot of food in my childhood.

That made a huge impact.

I can see that now.

Other than that, growing up on the island of Bornholm in the small town of Svanike, Craftsmanship is everywhere.

It's sort of a craft island and especially a town like Svenike.

He was arrested while on family holiday in Italy, with prosecutors alleging he had been traveling on a false passport.

Prosecutors allege that he coordinated six accomplices and divers and explosive specialists and a ship's captain who used a rented yacht to plant timer-controlled charges at around eighty meters depth in the Baltic Sea near the Danish island of Bornholm.

Right.

Um, I think there were only two places that the Russians helped, quote-unquote, "liberate," uh, that they then left from, right? One was Norwegian territory, uh, in the northern, uh, part of the country, uh, and, uh, near Kirkenes, if I recall, and the other one I think was on Bornholm, if I'm not mistaken.

Uh, but-

And, and, and Iran, 'cause we pushed them out of Iran.

So Nord Stream 1 had already stopped delivering gas, while Nord Stream 2 had never entered commercial service.

The explosions occurred near the Danish island of Bornholm, B-O-R-N-H-O-L-M. Danish and Swedish authorities detected underwater disturbances consistent with explosives, and enormous quantities of gas escaped into the Baltic Sea.

Less than 24 hours later, Poland and Norway celebrated the opening of the Baltic Pipe, which carries Norwegian natural gas to Poland through Denmark.

The Baltic Pipe was built between 2020 and 2022 and has an annual capacity of approximately 10 billion cubic meters.

They didn't specify which agencies, and Ukraine has denied involvement.

And then the plot itself, it's alleged that Serhiy K, as he's name un- known under German privacy rules, led a small team, including professional divers and an explosives expert, chartering a yacht from Germany's Baltic coast and sailing to waters off the Danish island of Bornholm before laying explosives on the pipelines back in September 2022.

That is the allegation.

Serhiy K has denied involvement.

The early warning earthquake system of Europe detected a very powerful disturbance, and they located that at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

What initially looked like an earthquake turned out to be a very powerful explosion not far from the Danish island of Bornholm.

So from the onset, governments were aware that something significant had happened, and so the Danish government scrambled fighter jets to the site of the disturbance to get a visual on what was going on.

And what they had seen were gigantic kind of bubbles in the water, which signaled that there was something coming out from the depth.

Yeah, okay.

Um, we have a Bon- you know Bornholm, the biggest island in Denmark?

No.

They make some schnapps that are infused with a bunch of things.