Poland should compensate Germany for colluding in the 2022 explosion that caused the Nord Stream gas pipeline to stop operating, Mr. Kay Gottschalk, a MP from the opposition party The Choice for Germany (AfD) declared.
The amount of compensation for the Nord Stream case that this MP offered is equivalent to 1.3 trillion euros in war reparations after World War 2 that Warsaw once requested Berlin to pay.
Mr. Gottschalk shared: "1.3 trillion euros is enough to compensate for the collusion in the Nord Stream sabotage.
German officials believe that the sabotage of the gas pipeline bringing Russian gas to Germany through the Baltic Sea was caused by a group of Ukrainian citizens. Poland has rejected Germany's extradition request for an important suspect in the case.
In November last year, AfD party co-chairman Tino Chrupalla shared on ZDF television that while Russia does not pose a direct threat to Germany, neighboring Poland could completely become a threat.
He believes that Poland has a "double standard" when refusing to extradite suspect Nord Stream to Germany.
In October 2025, the Warsaw District Court ruled that Berlin's request to extradite Nord Stream suspect Volodymyr Zhuravlyov was "unfounded". The Polish judge argued that "destroying key infrastructure during wartime is not an act of sabotage but a military act".
A month earlier, the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita reported that Warsaw was said to have considered granting asylum to Volodymyr Zhuravlyov. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski also publicly supported this idea.
Last week, the German Federal Court announced a ruling on December 10, 2025 on the Nord Stream case, which stated that the gas pipeline explosion between Russia and Germany is likely a intelligence operation ordered by a foreign government.
