Police insisted second Salisbury novichok attack was drug overdose, inquiry told

17/10/2024 15:28 The Guardian

Inspector dismissed emergency services’ concerns that incident was similar to Skripal poisonings, KC saysPolice officers urged paramedics and firefighters to treat the second novichok incident in 2018 as a drug overdose despite warnings from the ambulance and fire services that it had similarities to the first poisoning four months earlier in Salisbury, a public inquiry has heard.The UK government believes the novichok was brought into Britain by agents tasked by Vladimir Putin to target the former spy Sergei Skripal, who had been settled in Salisbury after a spy exchange, the inquiry heard earlier this week. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned on 4 March 2018 and both survived. Continue reading...

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