
周一,保加利亚针对两名19岁的德国公民发出了欧洲逮捕令,称怀疑他们参与了在首都索菲亚附近破坏多座Starlink卫星天线的行为。
Bulgaria on Monday issued European arrest warrants against two 19-year-old German nationals, saying it suspected their involvement in the sabotage of a series of Starlink antennae near the capital Sofia.
索菲亚法院在批准检察官的请求后表示:“根据收集到的证据,我们有合理的理由怀疑这两名被告的涉案嫌疑。”
"The evidence gathered makes it possible to conclude that there are reasonable grounds to suspect the involvement of the two defendants," the court in Sofia rules, granting a request from prosecutors.
在俄罗斯入侵期间,乌克兰军队正在使用Starlink提供的军用级卫星互联网服务(Starshield)进行战场通信。
Ukraine's military uses Starlink's military-grade satellite internet service Starshield for battlefield communications amid Russia's invasion.
保加利亚虽然不与乌克兰直接接壤,但它位于黑海沿岸——该地区是冲突的热点之一。在波兰(与乌克兰接壤的国家)也发生过类似事件,上周共有四人因此在德国被捕。关于保加利亚的这起事件,我们了解到以下信息:两名青少年嫌疑人被指控于10月9日晚故意纵火烧毁了这些卫星天线。
Bulgaria does not directly border Ukraine, but it is on the Black Sea, one of the flashpoints of the conflict. A similar case in Poland, which does directly border Ukraine, led to a total of four arrests last week, also in Germany. What do we know about the incident in Bulgaria? The two teenage suspects are accused of deliberately setting fire to the antennae on the evening of October 9.
根据检察官的说法,在索菲亚南部的一个山区,共有18座Starlink天线被破坏:其中3座被完全烧毁,2座部分受损,另外3座也受到了损坏。
Of 18 in a mountainous region south of Sofia, three were destroyed entirely, two were partially burned and three more were damaged, according to prosecutors.
检察官称,嫌疑人驾驶一辆挂着德国车牌的汽车从塞尔维亚进入保加利亚,自称是游客,并在案发前后仅在该地区停留了几个小时。
Prosecutors say the suspects entered from Serbia in a car with German license plates, claiming to be tourists, staying just a few hours around the time of the alleged crime.
保加利亚国内情报机构DANS的负责人普拉门·托恩切夫表示,他们初步认定这是一起蓄意破坏行为,并强调未来类似事件仍有可能发生。这次逮捕事件与波兰的破坏事件之间是否存在关联呢?
Plamen Tonchev, the head of Bulgaria's domestic intelligence agency DANS, said he was working on the assumption that it was deliberate sabotage and said other such acts could not be ruled out in future. What is the potential tie-in to a Polish sabotage case?
此次逮捕的消息是在德国发生类似事件一周后发布的:9月底,波兰中部有四人因破坏Starlink卫星通信站而被捕。
News of the arrests follow just a week after a total of four people were arrested in Germany, accused of sabotaging a Starlink satellite communications station in central Poland in late September.
上周初,德国警方逮捕了三名当地居民(其中两人是土耳其公民)。
German police detained three resident men and a woman, two of them Turkish nationals, early last week.
波兰官员表示,他们认为俄罗斯幕后策划了这次破坏企图,总理唐纳德·图斯克将其称为“混合战争”行为。国内情报机构还声称,俄罗斯在涉嫌的这次行动中与德国的有组织犯罪分子合作。
Polish officials said they believed that Russia was behind the sabotage attempt, with Prime Minister Donald Tusk calling it an act of "hybrid warfare." The domestic intelligence agency also claimed that Russia had cooperated with organized crime elements in Germany on the alleged operation.
与此同时,在波罗的海地区,立陶宛总理周日表示,俄罗斯很可能是针对一家为星链卫星提供通信硬件的公司的纵火未遂事件的幕后黑手。
Meanwhile, in the Baltic, Lithuania's prime minister on Sunday said that Russia was likely behind an attempted arson attack on a company hosting communication hardware for Starlink satellites.