Anchoring Criminal Jurisdiction at Sea: The Helsinki District Court’s Eagle S Judgement and its impact for the protection of submarine cables and pipelines

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Yiannis Bamnios holds an LL.M. in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the Geneva Academy and a bachelor’s degree in law from the Democritus University of Thrace.

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Anchoring Criminal Jurisdiction at Sea: The Helsinki District Court’s Eagle S Judgement and its impact for the protection of submarine cables and pipelines

November 7, 2025

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Yiannis Bamnios

The Eagle S incident – a refresher On Christmas Day 2024, the Estlink 2 electricity cable connecting Finland and Estonia was cut by the Eagle S, an oil tanker sailing under the flag of the Cook Islands and linked to the Russian ‘shadow fleet’ (the vessel was later added to the EU’s list of sanctioned…