STOCKHOLM — The case against two filmmakers charged with disturbing the wreck of the ferry Estonia, which sank in 1994 with the loss of 852 lives, was dismissed Monday by a Swedish court as their vessel was not covered by the law protecting the gravesite.
The men were part of a Discovery Network documentary team that sent a remote-operated vehicle to film the wreck in the Baltic Sea in 2019, discovering previously unknown damage to the hull and reviving speculation about the cause of the disaster.
The Gothenburg court dismissed the charges of disturbing a marine grave against the two Swedish citizens because the law which protects Estonia did not apply to foreign-registered v…
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