Tension between Russia and Britain returns due to another nerve gas poisoning

LONDON.- Four months after
attack on ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, the government of Britain today asked for explanations to


Russia
in front of a new case of poisoning with nerve gas Novichok, a substance manufactured by the Soviets, also used against the first.

"That two other people were exposed to the Novichok in Britain is extremely disturbing evidence and I know that the police will move the heavens and the earth in their investigation to determine what happened," said the prime minister.


Theresa May
during a visit to Berlin

British police confirmed yesterday that a 45-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman from Amesbury (in the south-west of countries) are in critical condition after being poisoned with this week's substance British officials have however pointed out that it is highly unlikely that they were the target of an attack and experts believe that they were infected when they came in contact with a contaminated object used to attack the Skripal.

British, identified by the media as Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley, came into contact with slowly decaying poison. There is nothing in its background that suggests a connection with the world of espionage or with the former Soviet Union.

After the British accusations, the Russian answer was not long in coming. "The government of Theresa May (…) will have to apologize for everything she has done, before Russia and in front of the international community," said Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy , at a press conference.

We ask the British authorities not to give in to the dirty political games launched by certain forces in London and to cooperate with the Russian security forces in this investigation. "

Last March, the case of the former spy has triggered
strong tension between Great Britain and Russia, a country that London accuses of having poisoned them with the substance of Soviet manufacture. The Russian double agent 67 years old, and
his 33-year-old daughter – who had already been released – was poisoned last March with the nerve agent Salisbury, located 13 kilometers from Amesbury.

Charges

"The time has come for the Russian state to take a step forward and explain exactly what has happened," said Britain's Interior Minister Savid Javid at the end of a government emergency meeting on this new case. British Security Minister Ben Wallace has also reiterated today British accusations that Russian agents are behind the attack on the Skripal, urging the Moscow government to provide information. "The Russian state could solve this problem," he told the BBC. "You could tell us what happened (…) they are the only ones who can give all the clues to ensure the safety of people."

Russia has always denied being behind this attack and offered help Nobody responded then, recalled the Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov, quoted by the Interfax news agency

Moscow also rejected any connection with the new case. The Russian Embassy in the Netherlands, said that in any case follows the new case in Amesbury. "Do you really believe that Russia is so stupid as to use" the new so-called Novichok "again precisely during the World Cup?", He said on Twitter

In Russia, new theories about infection are being prepared. A psychically unstable employee at the Porton Down Chemical Research Lab, near Salisbury, may have spread the substance to the area for revenge, said former secret service chief Nikolai Kovaljov, quoted by the newspaper as saying. 39; Interfax agency

former chief of FSB information services speculated with the possibility that the laboratory has storage problems of the substance.