The head of the Russia institute at King's College London, Dr Samuel Greene said the Kremlin would be able to shift suspicions to "innate Russophobia".
Counter-terror police are leading the investigation and officers are keen to speak to anyone who visited the Zizzi pizza restaurant on Sunday. which has been closed "as a precaution".
Emergency services went to a business park in Amesbury, north of Salisbury, on Monday where parts of Solstice Park, including an ambulance station, were cordoned off by firefighters. The incident has not been declared a terrorist incident "at this stage" but officers are "keeping an open mind as to what happened", Met Police added.
A COBRA committee will take place today. Yvette Cooper, chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, has written to Home Secretary Amber Rudd calling for an investigation into 14 deaths >"that have not been treated as suspicious by the UK police, but have - reportedly - been identified by United States intelligence sources as potentially connected to the Russian state". Mr Skripal was convicted in Russia of spying for MI6 in 06, and later given refuge in the UK as part of a swap.
Yulia currently works for Pepsico in Moscow, according to her Facebook after moving to Britain for a few years in 2010.
Boris Johnson said that "should evidence emerge that implies state responsibility, then Her Majesty's Government will respond appropriately and robustly".
This picture was taken from a CCTV camera at 3.47pm on Sunday at Snap Fitness 24/7 gym and shows an alleyway connecting Zizzi restaurant and the bench where Mr Skripal and his daughter were found.
Carter Martin
The Sun reports a theory that someone may have spiked the pair’s drinks in a pub - however another theory is they sprayed the pair on the street.
They ate starters, seafood risotto and drank white wine and water. Skripal lost his temper after being forced to wait 40 minutes for his main course. A chef said: “He was very angry and being very rude. He was smartly dressed and had a thick Russian accent but he was behaving like an a******e.” The chef, who said Yulia had “shoulder length reddish brown hair”, added: “He was waving his hands and banging the table. She barely said a word.”
A witness said he saw them: “There was a man on the bench with his head between his legs being sick. I couldn’t see the woman properly, she was on the floor at the other person’s feet.”
Friends of Skripal’s yesterday said he liked to drink at Salisbury’s Railway social club. Nicholas Sebright, 70, said: “He was just one of the guys that came in on a Sunday and sat drinking with his pals.”
Bio-terrorism experts said a chemical poison like thallium is believed more likely. After initial reports released claimed an uber strength opiate was responsible.
Josiah Peterson
>seafood risotto >at Zizzi's Asking for trouble, especially on a Sunday
Bentley Cook
Witness Jamie Paine told the BBC yesterday: ‘Her eyes were just completely white, they were wide open, but just white and she was frothing at the mouth. And then the man went stiff, his arms stopped moving and still looking dead straight
Destiny Reynolds, 20, who works in Ganesha Handicrafts in the centre, said: ‘They put her on the ground in the recovery position, and she was shaking like she was having a seizure. It was a bit manic.
Zachary Lopez
This actually sounds a bit like nerve gas, maybe they got VXd like Kim's brother at the airport
Aiden Lee
there was an asian chick with an LOL t-shirt walking very fast
Aiden Adams
they questioned the chef and he denies it apparently
Benjamin Nelson
Who fucking cares. He’s a traitor.
Gavin Perez
What the fuck is up with all this fucking opiate.
I bet it was fucking fentanyl.
niggas need to look at canada and their drug industry
who the fuck makes fentanyl thats probably where you will find it.
Either that or in their ears. like an ear infection
Justin Murphy
Lol! MI6 btfo!
Remember Livinenko? Russia 2 : UK 0
Dylan Robinson
Who do you think putin works for?
Jason Richardson
Not ur fucking whore queen!
Elijah King
i think russia cares with the upcoming election
Jordan Stewart
>election
yeah sure thing
Adrian Rogers
>be a russian traitor, spy against russia, sell top secret information to other countries >get killed
colour me surprised.
Jackson Garcia
>respond appropriately
Yes. By sweeping it under the rug to avoid pointing fingers at the people whose money laundering in British banks is keeping your economy afloat.
Even if UK was able and willing finally retaliate after a decade+ of Russia gangsters and spies people there with no consequence, what would U.K. Do? Well? What? Complain to UN?
Well this is Sup Forums, so obviously "the Jews".
Adam Young
No more suspicious than Hastings or Seth Rich.
Scary times nonetheless.
Justin Ward
The thing that I find odd here is that despite moving to a different country and probably knowing that Putin would try to get him, he didn't change his identity or anything
Jose Wright
Daily Mail reports Sergei said that he was a 'Russian spy' and kissed a black wolf ring, according to a cab firm boss. Adam Blake who owns local firm A2B Taxis, said he 'fairly regularly' used to pick up Mr Skripal.
Ryder Cooper
Which makes it worse you're being naïve to the way media can disregard that he was a traitor and blame someone else. It doesnt exactly look that way our foreign secretary was talking about pulling out the world cup football tournament, national sport is considered quite important usually. This comes after the widely read athletics scandal, which might continue into this. It doesnt look like a cover up so far
Jason Green
This "infograph" is really fucking poorly thought out. give me details on collusion or conspiracy rather than a couple of lines and pictures.
Adrian Lee
>tfw my sleepy hometown is the starting point for WW3
Salisbury is finally relevant
Joshua Jackson
Mhhhhh strange how many faggots in these thread defend russia
Blake Price
Amber Rudd says more has been discovered about the substance used and will be announced later today youtube.com/watch?v=3M6-DBSzflI
>slide threads A man and his daughter are poisoned in Britain, allegedly by the Russian secret service, but it's a slide thread because it isn't about Trump. Boomers need to leave.
Gabriel Mitchell
So skip World Cup. Nobody care. Countries have protest olympics in the past, nobody care. Think. The threat here for Russia is
>spend years murdering people in another country, exploiting this country banks to launder money and hide assets stolen from USSR >punmishment is UK does not attend sport match when you host
Gabriel Cox
>Her Majesty's Government will respond appropriately and robustly We'll do fuck all and he knows it.
Easton Gray
OP, make me happy. Tell me that this bitch is dead.
So it’s a crime when Putin wants to kill off traitorous spies but it’s perfectly normal when the USA does the same exact thing? I fucking hate my country and I’m American, the Cold War emotions need to be destroyed.
Gabriel Anderson
>whore queen
I'd ask if you're retarded but you have a memeflag so i guess that answers that
Logan Brooks
>This explains everything
They ordered the seafood risotto. Case closed.
Andrew Mitchell
Local News reaction from yesterday youtube.com/watch?v=xj6QeTnqf5I >a russian bot thanks for posting user The world has a thing with putin/russia and the uk loves football. explain how nobody cares plz? sorry not yet. but I bet your not the only one, friend kek
Liam Morris
UK players not being at World Cup won't kill it any more than US or soviet teams skipping 1980 and 1984 olympics killed those events
So U.K. Does not play sport ball. Wow. That will teach a lesson. Sure told them.
