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UK police: 21 people sought treatment after ex-spy poisoning

By JILL LAWLESS clear who is to blame.
LONDON (AP) — Around 21 The Russian Embassy in Lon-
people have had hospital don, which has mocked
treatment after a nerve- other British politicians
agent attack on an ex-Rus- for suggesting Russian in-
sian spy, British police said volvement, tweeted that it
Thursday, as the U.K. vowed agreed with Rudd: "First evi-
strong action against who- dence then conclusions on
ever was responsible for the Mr. Skripal's case. Respon-
"brazen and reckless" act. sible political approach."
Three people remain hos- Police have refused to pub-
pitalized after the poison- licly speculate on who is be-
ing Sunday in the southern hind the attack, but many
English city of Salisbury — experts have focused on
former spy Sergei Skripal, Russia because of the simi-
his daughter and a British larity to the 2006 killing of
police officer who tried to another former Russian spy
help them. who was poisoned in Lon-
Health authorities say there don with radioactive polo-
is little risk to the wider pub- nium-210. In this Feb. 27, 2018 grab taken from CCTV video, former spy Sergei Skripal shops at a store in
lic. But Wiltshire county A public inquiry found that Salisbury, England. British authorities have new information about the mysterious substance that
acting police chief Kier Russia was responsible for left a former Russian spy and his daughter in critical condition, the minister responsible for public
Pritchard said "around 21 killing Alexander Litvinenko, safety said Wednesday.
people" have had treat- and that President Vladimir (ITN via AP)
ment, including the Skri- Putin probably approved it.
pals, who were found un- The Russian government most likely story, given Sky News. But Greene said structure,” Greene said.
conscious on a bench. has denied any involve- what we know both of the that even if the attack was “There’s echoes of Litvinen-
Pritchard said some of the ment in the Litvinenko kill- background of this case planned in Russia, it may ko — you are doing it in a
21 had had blood tests, or ing or the attempted killing ... given the track record not have been ordered by way that makes it obvious
received support and ad- of Skripal, a former Russian in the state of the relation- the Kremlin. you’re doing it,” he said.
vice. Previously, authorities agent who had served jail ship, the fact that we have “A lot of these things are Russia is “obviously a clear
had said only that "several" time in his homeland for seen things like this be- being done by people op- candidate,” but it is too
people had sought treat- spying for Britain before be- fore," Sam Greene, direc- erating at sort of an arm’s soon to say who was be-
ment. The ex-spy and his ing freed in a spy swap. tor of the Russia Institute at length’s distance from the hind the attack, Guthrie
daughter remain in critical "Russia does seem like the King's College London, told command and control added.q
condition in a Salisbury hos-
pital. A police officer who
came to their aid, Sgt. Nick Danish inventor denies killing journalist at trial
Bailey, is hospitalized in a
serious condition, though
he is conscious and talking, By JAN M. OLSEN testified at the opening of tower in one piece to throw in detail how Wall's body
officials said. Associated Press his trial in Copenhagen City her overboard so he had to parts were found on the
British Home Secretary Am- COPENHAGEN, Denmark Court, Madsen appeared cut her up. ocean bed.
ber Rudd said enormous re- (AP) — The Danish inventor irritated at times as he Wall, a 30-year-old free- He said Madsen has "no
sources are being devoted accused of torturing and brushed off any suggestion lance journalist who wrote empathy or feelings of
to determining who poi- killing Swedish journalist Kim of sexual activity with Wall for The New York Times, guilt," citing the court-or-
soned Skripal, 66, and his Wall during a private sub- before or after her death. The Guardian and other dered psychiatric evalua-
33-year-old daughter Yulia. marine trip before dismem- Prosecutor Jakob Buch- publications, embarked tion.
They were found uncon- bering her body strongly Jepsen read from a psy- on Madsen's submarine If found guilty, Madsen
scious on a bench, trigger- denied killing her, asserting chiatric report describing on Aug. 10 to interview the faces between five years
ing a police inquiry headed at his trial Thursday that she Madsen as an intelligent 47-year-old co-founder of and life in prison — which
by counterterrorism detec- died accidentally because man "with psychopathic a company that develops in this case means 16 years
tives. of a pressure problem in tendencies." Madsen him- and builds manned space- that could be extended as
"The use of a nerve agent the submarine. self told the court Thursday craft. Her remains were long as Madsen is deemed
on British soil is a brazen Peter Madsen, who is ac- that he was "a promiscuous found in plastic bags on the dangerous — or he could
and reckless act," Rudd cused of torturing Wall be- person." Baltic Sea bed weeks later, be locked up in a secure
told Parliament. "This was fore he either cut her throat Madsen has admitted to and her torso was found mental facility if deemed
attempted murder in the or strangled her on his sub- dismembering Wall's body stabbed multiple times. necessary by psychiatrists,
most cruel and public way." marine, also denied he was before he "buried her at Buch-Jepsen started the for as long as he's consid-
Rudd said Britain would re- sexually attracted to her. sea," saying he could not 12-day trial by reading out ered sick and a danger to
spond strongly when it is Sitting on his hands as he lift her up the submarine the charges, describing others.q