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The location of the leak on the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline. File photoPARIS, Oct 6French President Emmanuel Macron said Europe needs a common strategy to protect key infrastructure amid the recent terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines. «In Europe, we need to protect key infrastructure: some time ago we saw attacks on the gas pipeline Nord Stream. We have an infrastructure that makes us vulnerable, this applies to the EU countries and other members (the European Political Community): gas pipelines, cables, satellites. We need a European strategy to protect it,» he said at a press conference following the results of the first meeting of the European Political Community in Prague on Thursday. The attacks on two Russian export gas pipelines to Europe at once — Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 — occurred on September 26. Germany, Denmark and Sweden do not rule out targeted sabotage. The operator of Nord Stream, Nord Stream AG, reported that the emergency on gas pipelines was unprecedented and it was impossible to estimate the timing of repairs. Gazprom announced on October 3 that the pressure in the damaged strings of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines had stabilized, gas leaks had stopped, and gas is pumped out of another line of Nord Stream 2 to check its integrity. In turn, the Swedish Coast Guard said that day that a «smaller» leak from Nord Stream 2 was continuing and even slightly increasing. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office initiated an investigation into an act of international terrorism after damage to the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod announced the government's determination to refuse Russia's participation in the investigation of the sabotage and the identification of the perpetrators. terrorist attacks on Nord Stream