Overview
- The 49-year-old Ukrainian, identified as Serhij K., has refused food since October 31, according to his lawyer.
- He remains in high-security pretrial detention in Italy following his August arrest near Rimini during a family holiday.
- German federal prosecutors accuse him of jointly causing an explosive attack on the Nord Stream pipelines and of constitutionally hostile sabotage.
- A Bologna court recently approved his transfer to German authorities, and the defense plans to refile before the Court of Cassation after an earlier halt from that court.
- The date of the next hearing in Rome has not been set, and reports suggest any German trial, if extradition proceeds, would likely take place in Hamburg.