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Scripal case — Look for those 'who benefit'
Let us look impartially at the facts but not guesswork and analyze independently what happened.
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The poisoning of Sergey Scripal, ex-officer of the Russian military intelligence, and his daughter Julia in Salisbury has become recently a “hot potato” in international information space. (JP/File)
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he poisoning of Sergey Scripal, ex-officer of the Russian military intelligence, and his daughter Julia in Salisbury has become recently a “hot potato” in international information space. Just several days after it had happened, the British prime minister stated that Russia is “highly likely” behind the spy attack. She didn’t bother to provide any evidence or persuasive arguments to support this statement.
Nevertheless the British version about the “Russian trace” was taken up. A reader actually has no chance to examine the situation independently. It was calculated that the inattentive and unsuspecting audience will blindly believe the new fictions invented by the British political strategists.
Let us look impartially at the facts but not guesswork and analyze independently what happened.
Scripal was arrested in Russia in 2004 for espionage and in 2006 sentenced by the court to 13 years of imprisonment. In 2010 he was granted a pardon and then exchanged to the Russian intelligent agents. Since that time Scripal lived abroad. Thus after his arrest in 2004 he hasn’t had access to any information which disclosure could threaten Russian security. So this personage could not be of any interest for Russian authorities.
