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The defendants in the poisoning of the Skripals gave the first interview. There are even more questions
The Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who are suspected of poisoning the Skripals, were given an interview with RT editor Margarita Simonyan: they said that they had traveled to the UK for tourism purposes. At the same time, men emphasize that they turned to the TV channel "to protect." It would be logical to assume that during the conversation they will try to talk as openly and in detail about their trip to refute the accusations of the GRU connections. But their explanations were so slurred and absurd in places that even more questions arose - both themselves and to the RT channel.
Why did Petrov and Boshirov show photos from the Salisbury Cathedral?
The Russians explain their trip to Salisbury with the desire to see local attractions, in particular, Salisbury Cathedral. According to them, during the second trip on March 4, they managed to visit him, and they even took photos there.
During the interview, Petrov and Boshirov were surprised why the British police did not publish filming from video surveillance cameras near the cathedral (although Scotland Yard did not claim that the Russians were not there). At the same time, for some reason they did not show their own pictures against the backdrop of attractions that would confirm their version about the purpose of the trip to Salisbury-and did not react to Simonyan’s direct proposal to do this.
Why did Boshirov and Petrov talk about themselves so little?
The main goal of the interview for Boshirov and Petrov, judging by their own words, is to show that they are ordinary Russians. However, for this they made a minimum of effort: for example, they refused to talk at least some details of their personal life. As a result, the conversation only causes additional suspicions. If they called at least the company in which they work, it would be possible to check when it was registered, whether it really conducts financial activities - and whether it is connected with the state.
Boshirov and Petrov came to London to "tear themselves away." Of the three days, they spent two in Salisbury. Is this in their view "separation"?
Between Salisbury, a calm town for 45 thousand people, and the capital of Great Britain London - more than 100 kilometers. At the beginning of the interview, Boshirov and Petrov report that they came to the UK not to work, but to “tear themselves away”. It turns out that in their view “to break away” is two of the three days of the trip to spend on the road in Salisbury and back.
Perhaps Boshirov and Petrov are very fond of architecture and are really carried away by Gothic. But, again, from an interview with their special interest in architecture, imperceptibly.
Did the weather interfere with Petrov and Boshirov?
The British police says that Petrov and Boshirov were in Salisbury for two days: they went to the first “for intelligence”, and the second to commit a crime. In an interview with RT, Petrov and Boshirov claim that both times they visited the city by tourists: on March 3, they arrived in Salisbury, but there was a “slurry”, they got wet on his knee and left to return the next day.
Photos in social networks during this time show that on March 3, tourists were in Salisbury, and nothing prevented them from enjoying the cathedral. Here is an example:
How did Boshirov and Petrov go to Margarita Simonyan?
As the chief editor of RT said, the alleged poisoners themselves asked her about the interview, calling her on her mobile phone. At the same time, according to Simonyan, her number “everyone knows, even couriers that deliver flowers on March 8”. In fact, the phone number of Simonyan is not indicated in any of its social networks, there is no it on the RT website. For standard requests in search engines, the Simonyan number is also not looking for .
Men, in their own words, decided to communicate with the media only after the proposal of Vladimir Putin. “I want to contact them to hear us today. Let them come <...> in the media, ”Putin said on the day of September 12, and in the evening the interview was recorded. It turns out that Petrov and Boshirov recognized the number of Simonyan in just a couple of hours.
On the evening of September 13, in search of Yandex, at the request of Margarita Simonyan Cell Telephone, in the first places, a link to the journalist’s exam, where there really is her phone number, began to be issued. Google, according to similar requests, this page, as before, does not show issues on the first pages. Simonyan herself said that she did not exclude that her phone was Putin Bashirov and Petrov.
Why didn't Simonyan ask them a few important questions?
Why do their passports differ by only one digit? Why are they so sure that they would be stopped at the border if they were discovered by female perfumes? How do relatives, close, acquaintances, business partners react to the hype around their names? Vladimir Putin said: “Of course, we looked at what kind of people are. We know who they are, we found them ” - but who found them? Did they communicate with the special services?
And finally, the most banal questions: where did they study? Who are their parents? What is their biography? In fact, after an interview about them, more did not know more than before him.