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Failed assassination attempt on Trump
The White House Postal Service intercepted a letter containing the potent ricin poison.
An assassination attempt against Donald Trump could have been prepared. In any case, in the White House they found an envelope with a deadly poison, which was intended for the president.
A suspect of sending an envelope has already been detained at the Canadian border.
Correspondent.netgathered information about Trump’s attempt.
About suspect
The suspicious envelope was noticed by employees of the White House postal control service. Inside was found a powerful poison, ricin.
All mail destined for the head of state is screened and sorted at a remote facility before reaching the White House. After the discovery of the dangerous package, two tests were carried out to confirm the presence of ricin in it.
An investigation has begun to find out where the ricin letter came from, involving the FBI, the United States Postal Inspection Service and intelligence officials. According to US media reports, the poisoned letter was sent from Canada.
Ricin is extracted from the fruits of the castor bean, a very widespread plant that looks like a palm tree, more precisely, from the waste of its processing into castor oil. Damaged seeds are dangerous to humans if ingested.
The Bellingcat online edition rated castor bean a hobbyist weapon for its availability and ease of preparation.
There is no antidote for ricin. If a person inhales or ingests it, death occurs within 36 to 72 hours, depending on the dose received. A dose of half a milligram of this substance the size of the head of a pin is enough to kill an adult.
It’s not the first time
This is not the first time that Trump has been sent an envelope containing ricin. In 2018, a US citizen, a Navy veteran, was arrested for sending Donald Trump and members of his administration, as well as FBI Director Christopher Ray and several high-ranking military officers, letters containing a substance derived from ricin.
In 2014, another US citizen, originally from Mississippi, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sending letters containing ricin to US President Barack Obama and Republican Senator Roger Wicker.
In 2019, in Germany, the Tunisian Zif Allah H. was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison, who managed to obtain 84.3 grams of ricin for committing a terrorist attack. He also bought 250 steel balls on the Internet, on which he planned to apply ricin and then fill an explosive device with them.
In 2001, instructions to make ricin were found at a vandalized al-Qaeda base in Kabul.
The most famous case of ricin use is the murder of the Bulgarian dissident and BBC World Service employee Georgy Markov. He was poisoned on September 11, 1978 in London by being stabbed with a specially designed umbrella containing a mini pneumatic gun that fired a tiny ricin capsule. The weapon was developed in the KGB laboratory and provided to them by the secret services of communist Bulgaria.
There is a suspect
A Canadian citizen was arrested at a border crossing in Buffalo, New York, suspected of sending an envelope containing ricin to Trump. The detainee, whose name was not released, tried to enter the United States, had a firearm with her, reports The New York Times.
In March 2019, the Canadian was arrested by Texas State Police, according to authorities. An unregistered gun, a fake driver’s license and an expired six-month visa were found on him. After that, the woman was deported from the country to Canada.
