A new BBC drama-documentary mix account of the Salisbury poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia will air starting today, with a scene-by-scene realization detailed by the live account given by their neighbour, a one British soul named Mr. Cassidy. His testimony is a direct testament to the reason behind the British government’s accusation of the Russian government’s intervention in Skripal’s death.
On March 4, 2018 two Russian assassins soaped the door handle of Skripal’s house with Novichok, considered to be the most lethal nerve poisoning agent of all, while posing as tourists fascinated by Salisbury cathedral. As we see in the series’s powerful opening scene, within a few hours Skripal, now 68, and his daughter, Yulia, 35, fell into a catatonic stupor as they sat on a public bench after lunching together on that Sunday afternoon. They spent weeks in hospital.
In the dramatic realization of the incident, there comes a moment where Skripal foreshadows his own death, eventfully only a week before his real murder happening.
‘You know, one day Putin is going to get me.point 37 | ’ Skripal is seen saying in the recreation of the moment.point 90 | Mr Cassidy believed Sergei Skripal “was serious in predicting he would be assassinated on the orders of the Russian president.point 205 |
” Mr Cassidy, 63, had driven Skripal to Heathrow Airport to meet Yulia off her flight from Moscow.point 89 | He retells the moment with the two Counter Terrorism Command officers in the dramatic pre-climax, as he is sure they were followed back by a man and woman.point 217 |
When they ask him for more information, and if he remembers anything from the incident, he replies:point 83 | 1
‘I do, yes,’ replies Mr Cassidy ‘Something Sergei said when he was right here last week. Sat exactly where you are, in fact. He said: “Putin’s going to get me.”’
There have been several theories regarding the motivations behind Skripal’s death and almost certain homicide by poisoning, including that former insurgents in the intelligence community, with less importance stretching to Putin, might have orchestrated the whole affair. The BBC dramatisation of Cassidy’s account of the last moments of the ex-espionage will surely put the blame on Putin, possibly setting a light in the mysterious murder case.
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