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July 19, 2018 19:50:04
British investigators identified several Russians as being suspects in the badbadination attempt on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, the Press Association reported.
The Russian double agent Mr. Skripal and his daughter were poisoned. the Novichok neurological agent in March. Both were found unconscious on a bench in a mall.
The Skripals recovered, but the responsible people were never identified
The Press Association cites sources in this survey that verified CCTV videos with people entering the UK had allowed them to Identify several Russians as suspects. ] But former British intelligence officer Philip Ingram told Linda Mottram that officials had probably left the country and even if their identity was known, there would probably be no arrests. It is a very, very complex investigation, "he said.
" They [British authorities] can identify individuals, they will put international arrest warrants . "
if they were Russian nationals, it was unlikely that anything could be done because Moscow denied any involvement in the attack.
" What will happen realistically, I do not think much, "he said.
Mr. Ingram said in the Prime Minister's interview that the attempted murder would have involved a team of six people in chemical hazmat suits walk next to a police tent. "title =" Investigators on the scene where Sergei Skripal was found ill "width =" 700 "height =" 467 "/>
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Investigators in hazmat suits work near where Sergei Skripal became seriously ill. [AP: Steve Parsons / PA]
Russia denies involvement as responsible
"For an attempt at professional badbadination like this, these are the numbers you would have expected, because it would be an operation that would have" The Skripals' door was contaminated, "he said.
Britain blamed Russia for poisoning and identified the poison as Novichok, a deadly group of nerve agents developed by the United States. Soviet army in the 1970s and 1980s.
But Russia repeatedly denied its participation in the attack.
Mr. Skripal is a former Russian military intelligence colonel who was arrested in Moscow in 2004 after discovering that he was working as a double agent for the British government .. The motive for the attack on Mr. Skripal, an elderly Russian traitor who was traded at a trade exchange. 39, espionage approved by the Kremlin in 2010, is not c air, just as the motive for the use of an exotic nervous agent
But a Russian chemist involved in the development of Novichok said that only the Russian government could have led the attack.
A British investigation also concluded that Russia should be involved, and British Prime Minister Theresa May blamed Moscow for expelling 23 Russian diplomats in the UK.
A Briton, Dawn Sturgess, died this month. a small bottle containing Novichok near the town of Salisbury where the Skripals were slaughtered.
Her partner, Charlie Rowley, is still in the hospital
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