The results of the BAM Examinations were published by both Spiegel TV and Spiegel Magazine in January 2001, but due to its clouded language caused considerable confusion in the public. The public discussions about explosions on board of the ESTONIA however continued, and probably because also five German citizens had lost their lives in the ESTONIA casualty the Federal General Attorney decided to commence a pretrial investigation which was subsequently delegated to one of the Hamburg prosecutors. Assisted by a team of the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) this prosecutor instructed the MPA, DN, BAM and the Technical University Braunschweig to examine the relevant specimen of Sample 1 again. The responsible Professor of the Technical University Braunschweig should then evaluate the results of the other institutes and his conclusions should be binding for the prosecutor. The outcome of these renewed examinations is unknown to us, however since the prosecutor discontinued the pretrial investigation and closed the file it has to be assumed that the conclusions were negative.  See in this context Chapter 9 and the comments of Prof. Neubert about the poor sample treatment by BAM, as a result of which it was no more possible to prove high speed deformations to these samples.