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Charlie letade vigselring – hittade ryskt nervgift

Engelske Charlie Rowley gillar att fynda bland bortkastade föremål. I juni 2018 letade han i en donationslåda i jakt på en vigselring till flickvännen Dawn Sturgess. Där hittade han en plastinlindad Nina Ricci-parfymflaska, berättar han i CNN:s nya dokumentär ”The Salisbury poisonings: A spy next door”.

I tron att det var en dyr, bortslängd parfym tog han hem den till Sturgess, som sprejade lite på handleden.

– Kort senare sa hon att hon kände sig konstig. Hon klagade på huvudvärk [...] sedan blev hon okontaktbar. Jag försökte återuppliva henne. Allt gick i slow motion.

Flaskan innehöll det ryska nervgiftet novitjok. Tre månader tidigare användes den för att förgifta den ryska före detta dubbelagenten Sergej Skripal och hans dotter Julia.

Sturgess blev förgiftningens enda dödsoffer. Skripal, hans dotter och Rowley överlevde efter långa sjukhusvistelser.

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Förgiftningen av Sergej och Julia Skripal
Wikipedia (en)
The poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, also known as the Salisbury poisoning, was a failed assassination attempt to poison Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military officer and double agent for the British intelligence agencies in the city of Salisbury, England, on 4 March 2018. Sergei and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, were poisoned by means of a Novichok nerve agent. Both spent several weeks in hospital in a critical condition, before being discharged. A police officer, Nick Bailey, was also taken into intensive care after attending the incident, and was later discharged. The British government accused Russia of attempted murder and announced a series of punitive measures against Russia, including the expulsion of diplomats. The UK's official assessment of the incident was supported by 28 other countries which responded similarly. Altogether, an unprecedented 153 Russian diplomats were expelled by the end of March 2018. Russia denied the accusations, expelled foreign diplomats in retaliation for the expulsion of its own diplomats, and accused Britain of the poisoning. On 30 June 2018, a similar poisoning of two British nationals in Amesbury, 11 km (7 mi) north of Salisbury, involved the same nerve agent. Charlie Rowley found a perfume bottle, later discovered to contain the agent, in a litter bin somewhere in Salisbury and gave it to Dawn Sturgess, who sprayed it on her wrist. Sturgess fell ill within 15 minutes and died on 8 July, but Rowley, who had also come into contact with the poison, survived after treatment. British police believe this incident was not a targeted attack, but a result of the way the nerve agent was disposed of after the poisoning in Salisbury. A public inquiry was launched into the circumstances of Sturgess's death. On 5 September 2018, British authorities identified two Russian nationals, using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, as suspected of the Skripals' poisoning, and alleged that they were active officers in Russian military intelligence. Later, investigative website Bellingcat stated that it had positively identified Ruslan Boshirov as being the highly decorated GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, that Alexander Petrov was Alexander Mishkin, also of the GRU, and that a third GRU officer present in the UK at the time was identified as Denis Vyacheslavovich Sergeev, believed to hold the rank of major general in the GRU. The pattern of his communications while in the UK indicates that he liaised with superior officers in Moscow. The attempted assassination and subsequent agent exposures was an embarrassment for Putin and for Russia's spying organisation. It was allegedly organised by the secret Unit 29155 of the Russian GRU, under the command of Major General Andrey Averyanov. On 27 November 2019, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) added Novichok, the Soviet-era nerve agent used in the attack, to its list of banned substances.
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