Russia suspected of planting device on plane that caused UK warehouse fire
Source: The Guardian
Counter-terrorism police are investigating whether Russian spies planted an incendiary device on a plane to Britain that later caught fire at a DHL warehouse in Birmingham, the Guardian can reveal.
Nobody was reported injured in the fire on 22 July at a warehouse in the suburb of Minworth that handles parcels for delivery, and the blaze was dealt with by the local fire brigade and by staff.
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A similar incident occurred in Germany, also in late July, when a suspect package bound for a flight caught fire at another DHL facility in Leipzig, and investigators are looking at links between the two. German authorities warned this week that had the parcel caught fire mid-air it could have downed the plane.
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However, the most serious plot uncovered was an attempt to assassinate Armin Papperger, the chief executive of the German arms maker Rheinmetall. In July, it was reported that US intelligence services had foiled Russian plans to murder him.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/16/russia-suspected-of-planting-device-on-plane-that-caused-uk-warehouse-fire
It so happens that the inquiry into the murder of Dawn Sturgess by Russian agents with Novichok has just started:
The woman killed in the Salisbury novichok poisonings began foaming at the mouth and convulsing 10 or 15 minutes after unwittingly spraying the nerve agent on her wrists, an inquiry has heard.
Dawn Sturgess, 44, got into a bath with all her clothes on after becoming contaminated with novichok, which had been secreted in a fake perfume bottle that her boyfriend, Charlie Rowley, had given her, the inquiry into her death was told.
In police interviews read out at the inquiry, Rowley said he had told her “look what I found” before giving Sturgess what he thought was perfume as a present. He told how he had also spilled novichok on himself, and said his memory had been compromised and he was plagued by “peculiar dreams”.
The inquiry has heard that the UK government believes the novichok was brought into Britain by agents tasked by Vladimir Putin to target the former spy Sergei Skripal, who was settled in Salisbury after a spy exchange. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned on 4 March 2018.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/16/salisbury-novichok-poisoning-inquiry-dawn-sturgess
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