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British police said Sunday that the woman who had been exposed to the Novichok agent, a so-called gas, allegedly killed the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in southern England.
According to CNN, the 44-year-old woman She was identified by police as Dawn Sturgess and was exposed to the nerve agent earlier this week in Amesbury after handling a tainted object.
"This is a shocking and tragic news: Dawn leaves behind her family, including three children, and our thoughts and prayers are with them at this moment extremely difficult," said the deputy commissioner of the British anti-terrorist brigade. . Neil Basu
On July 4, two people, including Dawn Sturgess, were reported to have been seriously ill at Salisbury District Hospital after being exposed to Novichok's military neurotoxin, developed in the former Union. Soviet, according to the police. Deputy Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, Neil Basu, said: "We can confirm that the man and the woman were exposed to the Novichok nerve agent, identified as being the one who contaminated Yulia and Sergei Skripal "[19659006] Neurotoxic Novichok
A set of nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union in 1970 and 1980 with the aim of creating chemical weapons.
Sergei Skripal is a Russian ex-spy born in 1951, who worked at the Intelligence Directorate of Russia and retired with the rank of colonel.
He also worked for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1999. The Russian security services accused him of a crime of treason to the state in the form of espionage [19659008] In 2006, the Moscow Military Court found him guilty and was sentenced to 13 years in a high security prison; he accepted his guilt.
He was later released for barter in exchange for 10 Moscow spies arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the FBI.
