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    Finnish authorities seize cargo ship Fitburg and crew after undersea cable cut, pursuing criminal charges — Finnish special forces board ship, detain all 14 crewmembers | Cables and pipelines in the Gulf of Finland have been damaged four times in less than 1.5 years.
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    Finnish authorities seize cargo ship Fitburg and crew after undersea cable cut, pursuing criminal charges — Finnish special forces board ship, detain all 14 crewmembers | Cables and pipelines in the Gulf of Finland have been damaged four times in less than 1.5 years.


    Finnish authorities seize cargo ship Fitburg and crew after undersea cable cut, pursuing criminal charges — Finnish special forces board ship, detain all 14 crewmembers | Cables and pipelines in the Gulf of Finland have been damaged four times in less than 1.5 years.

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    1. Keikobad on

      > … detained its 14-member crew, and revealed that they were citizens of Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan.

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    2. crysisnotaverted on

      Good. I’m not surprised where they’re from. They should stop fucking with **billions** of dollars of infrastructure and getting away scot free.

    4. Tempires on

      Previous case year ago ended ship and crew just get away because court determined Finland had no jurisdiction to prosecute(random island nation ship was registered should instead). Guess will there ever be court case to pay for damages let alone sentence for crew?

    7. harbinger-nz on

      I’m sure the military have a couple of kilograms of specific high explosive that could put it on the bottom of the ocean in minutes

    9. Mangeytwat on

      At this point the ships should just be destroyed and billed to the corpo that operates them. If ~~russia~~ some completely innocent corpo ~~purposefully~~ accidentally destroys key infrastructure then they can pay for the cost of destroying their errant ship. Personally I’d toss the crew in a lifeboat and leave them to their own devices but that might be a bit too close to stooping to their level.

      Edit – a significant problem the west has is that it protects ~~russia~~ these corpos like it would any good faith actors and fears that any action against ~~russian~~ corpo sabotage will scare off other corpo entities but the reality is that any corpo entity knows that as long as they don’t conduct deliberate sabotage of key infrastructure they don’t face any extraordinary risk. *All laws are made up, as is the enforcement of said*. Bending over for a purely malicious actor is *fucking stupid by every metric*.

    12. jtrades69 on

      “Finnish special forces have taken control of the cargo ship Fitburg, detained its 14-member crew, and revealed that they were citizens of Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan.”