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Orpo: It’s premature to blame sabotage for severed data cable between Finland and Germany

submarine cable laying c lion 1 damage

PRIME MINISTER Petteri Orpo (NCP) on Tuesday urged people not to jump to conclusions about the damage caused to C-Lion 1, a 1,173-kilometre undersea data cable connecting Helsinki, Finland, and Rostock, Germany.

“I’m sure the sequence of events at the [sea] bottom will be clarified quickly, [and we’ll learn] what kind of damage we’re talking about. It’s premature to say whether it was sabotage,” he was quoted saying by Helsingin Sanomat.

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