STOCKHOLM - A final report into the September 1994 sinking of the car-ferry Estonia in the Baltic with the loss of 852 lives will not say who installed the weak locking devices on the outer bow door which caused the tragedy, the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter said yesterday.
The paper quoted a letter from a Swedish technical expert on the inquiry commission, Mr Boerje Stenstroem, to Germany's Meyer Werft shipyard which built the vessel in 1979, stating that the commission "will remain silent on the issue of who may have installed the weak parts".
But the chairman of the Swedish section of the commission, Mr Olof Forssberg, rejected the contents of the letter. He told the paper: "I disclaim all statements that we would try to hide anything in the final report."