UK leader visits Salisbury a year after Novichok attack

UK leader visits Salisbury a year after Novichok attack | iNFOnews.ca
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves the Guildhall, in Salisbury, England, Monday, March 4, 2019, on the first anniversary of the Skripal poisoning. British authorities say they have completed the cleanup of the southwestern English city of Salisbury, where a former Russian spy was poisoned with a nerve agent. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

LONDON – British Prime Minister Thresa May has praised the “spirit and resolve” of people in Salisbury, the English city hit by a nerve agent attack on a Russian ex-spy a year ago.

May visited the cathedral city Monday to mark the anniversary of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

The Skripals were found unconscious on a park bench on March 4, 2018 after being exposed to the nerve agent Novichok. They spent weeks in critical condition, but recovered.

A police officer and a local man were also made sick, and a local woman died after coming across a perfume bottle containing traces of the discarded nerve agent.

Britain says the poisoning was authorized at a senior level of the Russian state — an accusation that Moscow denies.

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