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In March 2018, Nick Bailey was the first police officer to enter Sergei Skripal’s home in Salisbury, UK, after the ex-agent and his daughter were poisoned. He did not know then that the novitjok neurotoxin had been smeared on the door handle of the house. Bailey became seriously ill and was cared for for two weeks in the intensive care unit, where he nearly died, The Independent reports.
The events are described in the television series “The Poison Attack in Salisbury”, which has been shown recently in Sweden.
Now Bailey announces leaving Wiltshire police, after 18 years.
He writes on Twitter that he must admit defeat and accept that he can no longer do the job.
“I wanted to be a cop since I was a teenager, I couldn’t imagine doing anything else, that’s why it makes me so sad,” he writes, using the hashtag “mental healthmatters” .
https://twitter.com/ExDsNickBailey/status/1317465190536019970
Bailey believes that the events in Salisbury made him very deprived.
“Even though I worked very hard to make it work, I know that I cannot have peace as long as I remain in that environment. Police work will remain in my heart and I am honored and privileged to have been a part of the Wiltshire Police Department. “
Bailey has previously spoken of the difficult time after the poisoning. You have tried to return to work three times, but it has not worked.
The UK has It pointed to two Russian agents from the GRU military intelligence service as responsible for the poisoning. Both men were captured on surveillance footage in Salisbury the day before the attack.
But Russia has consistently denied the allegations, and President Putin has claimed the suspects are civilians.
In august i got sick Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny when flying between Tomsk in Siberia and Moscow. Later, German doctors discovered that he had been poisoned by novitjok. Navalny accuses Putin of being behind the poisoning, but even in this case, Russia has dismissed all the accusations.
Read more:
After almost a year: Novitjok cleanup in England is complete
Putin wants to forget the poison attack he calls “fluff”
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