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The swell is short and the wind biting, on January 27, aboard the Cross-du-Sudthe military ship that France sent to contribute to the NATO operation, “Baltic Sentry”, launched in emergency, in mid-January, in the Baltic, to try to secure the many infrastructures that handle them depths.

In the wet fog, faced with a renewed suspicion of sabotage acts attributed to “ghosts” boats under the orders of Russia, men are concentrated. The crew of the French mine hunter knows that it sails in troubled water in this area located off the Danish coast, near the layout of an important pipeline, the Baltic pipe, connecting Norway to Poland.

No direct threat near the building, which is equipped with a sonar, a underwater robot and has six deminers. Only cargos and tankers sometimes meet, far away. But, as his commander sums up, Captain of Corvette Julien Malherbe, 41, in the square where the cups and the paintings pitch: “Our mission is first of all to share information between allies to have a most updated image of maritime traffic in the area, to establish a dialogue with the commercial buildings, to share suspicion criteria, And thus dissuade any sabotage attempts. »» Clearly, monitoring, informing, all in connection with maritime patrol planes, the presence of which has also been reinforced, and the interconnected radars of the banked banks.

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