He sprayed himself with Novichok thinking it was perfume

The victim unknowingly exposed himself to the chemical weapon after spraying himself with the deadly nerve agent believing it was perfume. Misfortune meant that a discarded jar in Amesbury, England, ended up in his hands after his partner found it and took it home as a gift.

While the attempted murder of the Skripal It had a great international impact and in the media, this mother’s case went completely unnoticed. Now a public investigation that began this Monday in Salisbury (England) will determine if this woman was a victim of a “cross confrontation” in an “international assassination attempt.”

Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench in the city of Salisburysouthern England, in March 2018, after Russian spies applied Novichok to the handle of the front door of their home.

Both fell seriously ill as a result, but recovered, as did a police officer who went to the Skripal home.

The poisoning attempt led to a wave of condemnations and rejections of Russia by the Westdespite the fact that the Kremlin always denied its involvement.

The United Kingdom accused Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, two suspects identified as officers of the Russian military intelligence service, also known as GRU, for this poisoning. However, no one was charged for the death of Dawn Sturgess.

On June 30, 2018, This woman sprayed the poison on her skin. Fifteen minutes later he fell ill and just eight days later he died.

According to the investigation, the perfume bottle found by this woman contained enough military-grade nerve agent to “kill thousands of people”.

“Those who left him showed an indecent disregard for human life,” said adviser Andrew O’Connor, part of the investigation, on Monday. He further noted that “it is not possible to adequately investigate Dawn’s death without first understanding the circumstances of the attempted poisoning of the Skripals.”

Therefore, these investigations aim to determine if the Novichok that killed the woman was part of the same batch of the chemical element that poisoned the ex-spy, his daughter and a police officer.

They will also seek to clarify whether the United Kingdom took “appropriate steps to protect the Skripals from the attack and the general public from collateral damage” and whether it is possible that “mistakes were made in protecting the Skripals that indirectly contributed to the death of Dawn.”