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Following the Estonian disaster in 1994, the Swedish Prosecutor’s Office decided to close the preliminary investigation into the crime. The decision was appealed to the end before the prosecutor, the country’s highest prosecutor, who had the same opinion and 22 years ago the preliminary investigation was abandoned.
Following this fall’s documentary, where hitherto unknown wounds were found on the helmet, one of the survivors has requested that the Public Ministry resume the preliminary investigation, says Swedish Radio Ekot. It will be the National Unit against International Crime that will judge the case, confirms the Public Ministry of DN.
In september of last year The dive was carried out at the expense of a television company on the Estonian wreck, the passenger ship that sank in the Baltic Sea 26 years ago in a disaster that cost 852 lives. The divers then found hitherto unknown damage to the Estonian hull, which is about four meters long and embedded in the seabed.
It is not known how long it will take before prosecutors make a decision on whether to launch a formal preliminary investigation, TT says.
DN has sought a responsible prosecutor in the National Unit against International Crime for comment.
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