The men were sentenced in the Court of Appeal to 80 days’ fines for violating the law on grave peace at the wreck. They were part of a film crew that made the acclaimed television documentary “Estonia – the discovery that changes everything” on Discovery.
Journalist Henrik Evertsson, who led the film crew, now wants HD to review the verdict.
In his appeal, he gives a number of reasons for this, including that the so-called Estonia law does not apply to the German boat that the team used, that the peace of the grave was not actually disturbed, that there was a very large public interest in the disaster, and that the law was not tested in any previous court case.
852 people died when Estonia sank in heavy weather in the Baltic Sea in 1994. The documentary, which was shown in 2020, led, among other things, to the Norwegian National Accident Commission (SHK) starting a new investigation into the disaster.
Images taken by the robot showed two previously unknown holes in the ship’s hull. However, they are considered to have been caused by the bedrock on the seabed, according to SHK.