Police searched a house near Berlin in the case of sabotage on the Nord Stream gas pipeline

The attack on the Nord Stream pipeline took place in September 2022. Photo: AFP

German police searched a house in a town near Berlin. in connection with the sabotage on the Nord Stream gas pipeline in September last year.

On May 25, detectives from the German Federal Crime Agency searched an apartment in the city of Frankfurt an der Oder.

Apartment belongs to a young woman who was once romantically involved with the prime suspect with whom she has a child, according to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Detectives took a DNA swab from the child, which they are now going to compare with the DNA found on the yacht, which is believed to have been used by saboteurs during the sabotage operation.

The woman, who is not herself a suspect, cooperated with the police and handed over your mobile phone.

German media claim that they know the identity of the woman's former partner, who is a member of the Ukrainian army.

German investigators believe he was one of six people who chartered a yacht off the coast of the Baltic Sea in Germany and traveled to the Nord Stream pipelines, where divers planted explosives on the outer shell of the pipeline.

Investigators believe the yacht was hired to sail to the Nord Stream pipelines. Photo: OLIVER DENZER/REUTERS

The boat was hired through a front company in Warsaw, a travel agency, German media previously reported.

The woman identified as the owner of the company is a Ukrainian living in Ukraine.

On September 26 last year, an explosion blew holes in three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines that were built to transport gas directly from Russia to Germany.

While various media trace the culprits to Ukraine, Germany's top spy warned against jumping to any conclusions.

Speaking in Berlin last month, Bruno Kahl, head of the Federal Intelligence Service, said there were «evidence leading in all directions.»