Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday that it is not in Poland's interest to accuse or extradite Volodymyr Z., a suspect in the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, reported Xinhua, quoting the Polish Press Agency.
Speaking at a press conference after meeting Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene here, Tusk said that he had explained the Polish government's position months earlier to the German and the Ukrainian sides.
The decision on whether to extradite the suspect should be made by the court, and the government will not intervene, he added.
The suspect was detained on Sept. 30 in Pruszkow, about 15 km west of Warsaw, under a European arrest warrant issued by a German court.
The District Court in Warsaw on Oct. 1 granted the prosecutor's office's request to detain him for seven days, and later extended the pretrial detention by 40 days.
Piotr Antoni Skiba, a spokesperson for the Warsaw District Prosecutor's Office, said the court will decide within the legal 100-day period whether to extradite him to Germany.
On Sept. 26, 2022, the Nord Stream pipelines transporting natural gas from Russia to Europe were ruptured in a series of explosions underneath the Baltic Sea near Sweden and Denmark. Sweden, Denmark, and Germany called the incident a deliberate act of sabotage.
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