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I think Lapsed Agnostic has it spot on wheh he/she mentions – “The footage further shows that they sat down on the bench at 15:36. There’s no sign of any impairment in their gaits. So why would they sit down again in front of some shops just a couple minutes after they’d been seated for an hour and 15 minutes at Zizzi’s? I think they were waiting for someone. ”
And…. “I wonder why we’re not being treated to footage from the library’s CCTV from 15:48 to 15:55 on 4th March 2018.”
Precisely. We have narrowed it down to between 15:36 and 16:00 approx that afternoon. Before that, the Skripals show no sign of incapacitation. After that, they are fitting, vomiting, rambling incoherently and then unconcious.
The footage from that camera would show what happened during those 20 minutes, who they were meeting, and indeed the minutes afterwards – and who was really the first person to come to their aid. Maybe we should put in a Freedom Of Information request to view it? After all, if it is declared unavailable due to National Security, we can draw our own conclusions. It may have been wiped of course, but then someone could be charged with (at least) perverting the course of justice by deleting vital evidence of a crime scene.
Lapsed Agnostic, you said “The footage further shows that they sat down on the bench at 15:36. There’s no sign of any impairment in their gaits. So why would they sit down again in front of some shops just a couple minutes after they’d been seated for an hour and 15 minutes at Zizzi’s? I think they were waiting for someone.”
Just because they sat down on the bench does not mean they were waiting for someone. In fact, if the nerve agent was just beginning to take effect on one of them then it is perfectly understandable that they would want to sit down. For example, “I need to sit down for a minute, dad, I feel a bit funny”, they sit, and then get progressively worse.
Having said that, there are some comments in the witness statements that allude to reasons why they might have another appointment. The night before, Ross Cassidy had told Sergei that he was going to be at a club until 3:30 and suggested that Sergei meet him there. Perhaps Sergei was rushing to catch him by 3:30 or shortly after.
Ross had also said his son was going to help Sergei repair a broken shower fitting in Sergei’s house. Sergei had told the son that he would be out from 2pm to 5pm that day, so possibly they had arranged for the son to come at 5pm to fix the fitting and Sergei didn’t want to keep him waiting.
Another point that I am very curious about is who made the initial silent 999 call? You would think they would have the number and location of that phone. But I have not seen any answer to this yet.
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What’s this silent 999 call you referred to? Could you elaborate, as I’ve heard nothing about this before.
(I’m assuming that you’re talking about someone making a 999 call at or around the time the Skripals became incapacitated, and made from somewhere in that location)
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Now I can only imagine that The Maltings shopping center is pretty busy most of the time, and Sunday would be no different, and quite possibly even busier than most week days. And my point is this (which only occurred to me yesterday): That no-one appears to have noticed the Skripals as they initially started to become ill, and the only people that spotted them, did so when they were already incapacitated – ie Yulia slumped against Sergei and him staring into the sky and making gestures with his hands (pointing to the sky or something like that). And it makes me wonder – if it WAS all an act – if they were looking around them waiting for a point when there was no-one close by so that they could then start their performance.
Maybe this could explain the absence of the library CCTV during this period.
That is an interesting thought, Allan; but are you saying they somehow made themselves vomit and go rigid?
Or are you implying they had some form of organophospate upon their person and contaminated themselves with it?
Certainly, it is not a scenario I had contemplated. And it does not explain the DS Bailey poisoning.
Allan, I read about the silent 999 call here. I haven’t found the source article yet. Hopefully I find it in the inquiry statements – if I do, I’ll post.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/04/the-official-skripal-story-is-a-dead-duck/comment-page-5/
