Bulgaria's Report on the third Skripal-assassin

The Bulgarian Parliament after Reports of a third Suspect in the case of the poison attack on the Russian Ex-double agent Sergei Skripal in the UK. A parliamentary Committee wants to request to next Thursday's secret service information.

This is the Chairman of the government party, stated Gerb, Zwetan Zwetanow, on Saturday. This is according to new findings on a poison attack in Bulgaria in 2015.

The former double-agent Skripal and his daughter Julia had been suspended in March 2018 in the southern English town of Salisbury in the Soviet Union developed nerve toxin Nowitschok. Both barely escaped death. The British government makes Russia responsible for the attack. As a Suspect, two agents of the Russian military intelligence service GRU shall apply.

In the last week, the British research platform Bellingcat had reported on a previously unknown third Suspect. The man is travelled, therefore, two days before the poison attack on Skripal under the alias of Sergei Fedotov in the UK and at the stop involved. In 2015, he's supposed to be, according to Bellingcat to a stop on the Bulgarian businessman Emilian Gebrew have been involved.

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The armor manufacturer Gebrew was broken in April of 2015 at a reception with heavy symptoms of intoxication and coma like. His son and an employee were treated for similar symptoms. All three were healthy again. According to Bellingcat Fedotov's supposed to be two days before the poison attack on Gebrew from Moscow to Sofia, fly.

In the Bulgarian government, and the details were confirmed in circles now, as the weekly newspaper "Capital" reported on Friday, citing a representative of the Ministry of interior. The Declaration of Zwetanow was the first official reaction to the revelations in Bulgaria. Zwetanow said he expected that the authorities in Bulgaria, the UK and the EU discuss the new revelations and enlightenment work. (nag/sda)

Created: 10.02.2019, 09:44 PM