Jutta Rabe is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 journalist and the current deputy chairman of the Europe section of the German Federation of Journalists, Berlin chapter.

She worked as a freelancer

Freelancer

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 for the German TV-magazine Spiegel-TV

Der Spiegel

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 for a number of years, as well as for Focus TV, ZDF

ZDF

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

, ARTE

Arte

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 and NDR

NDR

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.

Her book, Die Estonia: Tragödie eines Schiffsuntergangs (ISBN 3-7688-1267-7, ISBN 3-7688-1460-2), about the alleged cover-up of the true cause of the 1994 M/S Estonia

M/S Estonia

MS Estonia, previously MS Viking Sally , MS Silja Star , and MS Wasa King , was a cruise ferry built in 1979/80 at the German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg. The ship sank in the Baltic Sea in one of the worst maritime disasters of the 20th century...

 passenger ferry disaster, was made into the 2003 film Baltic Storm

Baltic Storm

Baltic Storm is a 2003 film written and directed by Reuben Leder about the MS Estonia disaster. Based on the book Die Estonia: Tragödie eines Schiffsuntergangs by German journalist Jutta Rabe, the film focuses on the confirmed transport of defense materials by the Swedish Armed Forces, and alleged...

. The video footage of her group's diving expedition to the Estonia shipwreck reveals holes in the ship's hull, suggesting that explosives played a role in the tragedy.

In the summer of 2000, Sweden

Sweden

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 issued an arrest warrant against Rabe for violating the sanctity of the shipwreck, in violation of the Estonia Agreement of 1995, barring her from entering Sweden or risk prosecution.