UK Government demands Russia's explanation for the poisoned couple with Novichok – 07/05/2018

Dawn Sturgess and her partner, Charlie Rowley, the new British poisoners with the Novichok neurological agent in Salisbury, could be "the remaining victims of the Skripal affair, which shocked Britain in March latest. Then the Russian secret services were held responsible.

Now the British government demands that Russia "tell the truth" about the attack on former spy Serguei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury with his international allies for the new case, for which Russia was sanctioned and her spies expelled from several countries. Just when US President Donald Trump will visit Britain on July 12 and see Queen Elizabeth. Prior to his participation at the planned NATO summit, and his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Helsinki on 16 July.

"The eyes of the world are on Russia, not only because of the World Cup," said British Interior Minister Sajid Javid. "It's time for the Russian state to go ahead and explain what exactly is going on," he told parliament, accusing Russia of "threatening our security ".

The British government and police know that the Novichok nervous agent who almost takes to death the former Russian spy Serguei Skripal and his daughter Yulia is the one who today has in the coma to a British couple, in the same Salisbury Hospital, where they saved them. But do not know how the agent happened to them, what objects they touched to be affected . The Novichok is the same and they were not targets: they are residual victims of the attack with which they attempted to murder Sergei and his daughter last March, who rescued toxicologists and doctors from around the world in the same hospital

The confrontation between Russia and Britain resumed with these newly infected. Ben Wallace, the UK's security minister, called on the Kremlin "to collaborate and say what he knows about Novichok to save the couple's life." "They chose a very dangerous and highly toxic weapon. In its smallest form, Novickok can kill or injure thousands of people. The Russian state must fill the important gaps that we are missing. They know how to fill them. They can come and tell us what happened. I'm waiting for the call of the Russian state. The offer is there, "said Minister Wallace.

The Kremlin announced on Thursday that it had proposed to have one of them. help Britain in the investigation of the Salisbury incident.March and they were rejected.In World Cup, President Vladimir Putin seeks to have a good image for his country.

In a statement, the Russians "worried that the nerve agent was used again in Europe." But they said they had not received any information from the authorities They insisted that Britain "never wanted to do a joint investigation."

"We have no information about the substances used and how they were used" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: Until now Russia denies having participated in the affair. ire Skripal

The Russian Foreign Ministry said in April that Britain was seeking to discredit President Putin in the Skripal case

. The poisoning of Sturgess and Rowley must be sought in a British source. Nikolai Koyalyov, former head of the GSB, the Russian secret service agency, told Interfax that the new poisoning "could have been caused by an unstable British researcher who stole the lethal toxin from a lab" without offering the most

In a telegram from the Russian Embbady in Holland, they asked themselves: "Novichock in the middle of the World Cup? The show must continue."

The Cobra Committee, the Britain's highest security agency, met on Thursday morning, under the chairmanship of Interior Minister Sajid Javid. Then he made a statement in the House of Commons

"Public health is of fundamental importance to us," said the Minister of the Interior, noting that "there is no no significant risk for the public "when two people

" It is unacceptable that our streets, our parks, our cities are transformed into a place to spread poison, "he said. Then he accused the Russian government of "weakening our national security " and badured that it was "totally unacceptable for our people to be deliberately or accidentally targeted."

Up to now, the police have never reported how the result was decontamination and how the Novichok gel had been applied, used to contaminate the shaft of the Skripal's house. But is supposed to have been a syringe, which would have been abandoned later . The couple could have been in contact with this object as "collateral victims" because Rowley is a heroin addict

Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley they are torn between life and death, completely unaware, after being picked up three hours apart, in the house that they were recently living in. Amesbury. But Dawn, an alcoholic and mother of three, lived until recently in a shelter for "homeless", 300 meters from the Zizzis restaurant, where the Skripal were intoxicated.

In view of the symptoms, the police believed that they were suffering from overdose. d & # 39; heroin. But the specialists who came to pick them up in the ambulances were dressed in chemical suits. Neighbors had warned them that they had foam in their mouths and seizures. Dawn's family learned from Sky News that they had been contaminated "in a major incident" while they were in the hospital that accompanied them, not by the police.

The Minister of the Interior said that all areas decontaminated by the Skripal case are safe. But this couple was not affected in any of the sites that had been decontaminated.

Be that as it may, John Baker House, the homeless home where Dawn lived before recently starting his new partner, was evacuated and investigations focused on the room she occupied. . Police interrogate door-to-door neighbors from where the couple was taken sick by ambulance to Amesbury

The sick couple is cared for in the only hospital experienced to badyze with success patients exposed to this type of nerve gas. The paramedics, doctors and nurses, who were in contact with them, should also be treated

Different regions of the district from Wilshire were contaminated. been cordoned off The gardens of Queen Elizabeth at Salisbury, the home of homeless on Rolleston St, a house on Mugleton Road in Amesbury, where the couple lived, the Pharmacy Boots of Stonehenge Walk in Amesbury and the Baptist Center at Butterfield Drive, where a popular party was held on Saturday, which the affected couple attended. The police advise the public to go to these places to wash the clothes they used in a washing machine and at the recommended temperature, to clean cell phones, wallets and electronic devices with baby cleaners and To throw in the bin. Dry cleaning in double plastic bags and cleaning jewelry and glbades.

Up to now, all found items had been destroyed or decontaminated at Porton Down, the government's defense laboratory. But the most serious proof is that the Novichok remains mortal for months even after four months of use against the Skripal. The chemical weapons expert Hamish of Bretton Gordon said that "it remains poisonous a lot, several months after this has been done."