Poisoned couple not victim of a targeted attack

Poisoned couple not victim of a targeted attack

SALISBURY. British investigators exploit random contact – The novitiate poisons the former spy Skripal

Police secures the property where the couple poisoned was found. Image: AFP

On Thursday, the British government officially informed the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) that a second poisoning by a nerve agent had occurred in Great Britain. -Britain. Charlie Rowley, 45, and Dawn Sturgess, 46, are currently hospitalized in Salisbury, in danger of death.

They were poisoned in Nowitschok. The police said that he was the same war officer who had poisoned four-month-old former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia in Salisbury

Nowitschok, a novice, is a neurotoxin. was developed in the Soviet Union from the 1970s and is much stronger than any veteran. It has been specifically designed to be difficult to detect and long lasting.

Contrary to the case of Skripal, the poisoning of Rowley and Sturgess was not meant to be a planned attack. The working hypothesis of the investigators is currently that it was not an badbadination but an accident and that the couple accidentally came in contact with the neurotoxin.

Police warn of containers

Police in Salisbury and Amesbury, where Rowley lives, warned to read "unknown containers lying around". It is believed that the Skripal killers threw the container in which they kept the poison after the attack. He may have been suspected of having been a syringe or a blister. The poisoned couple may have been affected and became a victim of cross-contamination.

Security forces in both cities are currently closing half a dozen squares. These are sites that Rowley and Sturgess visited between Friday night and Saturday morning when Sturgess developed the first serious symptoms.

Javid: Russia in charge

Interior Minister Sajid Javid yesterday led a meeting of the COBRA crisis committee. He then made a statement to the lower house. "It is totally unacceptable," he said, "that our citizens become deliberate or accidental targets and that our streets, parks and cities are dumpsters. Javid again blamed Russia for the incident because it was the same nervous agent as the Skripal case. "It's time for Russia to come and explain exactly what happened here."

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