Nerve agent used in ex-spy attack found at UK pub, restaurant

[DonViejo]

Source: Agence France-Presse



11 MAR 2018

Traces of a nerve agent used in the suspected attempted murder of a Russian ex-spy have been found in a pub and a restaurant he visited, England's chief medical officer said Sunday.

Sally Davies said up to 500 people who had visited The Mill pub and the Zizzi restaurant in Salisbury, southwest England, needed to wash their clothes and belongings as a precaution.

The March 4 attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia is being treated by detectives as attempted murder.

The pair were found slumped on a bench in Salisbury. They remain in a critical but stable condition in hospital.



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[KY_EnviroGuy]

1. Good link from the BBC..

Russian spy: Salisbury diners told to wash possessions

See: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43362673

Thanks for posting this Don - this suggests one or both had the stuff in some fashion on their person throughout much of their journey.

[toddwv]

2. How about the scientist who 'stabbed himself to death with two knives'?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/top-scientist-who-discovered-litvinenko-9325403

"The radiation expert who discovered the poison that killed Alexander Litvinenko "committed suicide" by stabbing himself repeatedly with two knives months after a trip to Russia, a coroner ruled.

Matthew Puncher, 46, bled to death at his home after receiving multiple stab wounds across his body from two kitchen knives, an inquest heard.

A pathologist said he could not completely exclude the possibility that someone else had been involved in the death of the father, but came to the conclusion that the injuries were self-inflicted."

[LisaL]

5. Or the guy in US who supposedly died from falling in his hotel room.

During this falling he somehow managed to get multiple blunt trauma injuries.

"In addition to the blunt trauma to the head, Mr. Lesin’s body had bruises on the neck, torso, arms and legs, but the cause of those was not clear."
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/us/mikhail-lesins-strange-death-in-us-follows-a-fall-from-russias-elite.html

[askyagerz]

3. Nice to know these asswipes

Are doing this in public. In restaurants and parks that kids visit. Wonder how much of this stuff is brought onto airplanes full of innocent people. And not one word from Republicans. ...

[SergeStorms]

4. I'm sure Vladimir Putin.....

thinks that's just a coincidence though. There are probably hundreds, if not thousands of people with access to nerve agents in Salisbury, England. It could have been anyone!