The British government believes that the Russian president, Vladimir Putinis behind the Novichok poisoning that on March 4, 2018, they were about to kill the former Russian double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julie in Salisbury, in the south of England.
A representative of the British Foreign Office testified in the investigation directly naming the highest official in the Kremlin, assuring that the attack with this substance was so sensitive that the president himself should have given his approval , according to the newspaper. The Guardian’.
Former spy Sergei Skripal, the target of the attack, stressed that Putin was responsible for the attack in a statement to the court. “I think Putin makes all the important decisions himself; Therefore, I think he must have at least given authorization for the attack.“, he assured.
Sergei was poisoned on March 4, 2018 after her daughter sprayed herself with novichok thinking it was a perfume bottle. Both were left unconscious on a bench and the authorities who came to their rescue to take them to the hospital were also affected.
In fact, four months later, Dawn Sturgess, a 44-year-old woman, died from poisoning when his partner found the bottle which contained the toxic active ingredient. The victim’s families have demanded that the British government and authorities not do everything possible to find the remains of the first poisoning before it took his life.
