Fake “60 minutes” program: the parents of the British who died from the “newcomer” do not believe the official version and are ready to sue with the government

The program “60 minutes” on the Russia 1 TV channel, where they discussed the incident with the Russian flag posted on the facade of the cathedral in Salisbury, was attended by a writer and journalist, a former KGB officer, the author of two books on Soviet intelligence, Alexander Vasiliev, who has been living in the UK since the mid-1990s. His statement seemed so important to the channel that he was even dedicated to a separate plot in Vesti. Referring to the largest British tabloid The Sun, Vasiliev said :

“Sun journalists talked with the parents of Don Rodes-this is a woman who died-and parents say that they do not believe in the official version of the British government, they believe that the British government is hiding something and they say that they are going to justice. What does that mean? This means that, quite possibly, they are going to sue the British government. This will be a very interesting turn, because while this story with Salisbury was of an external character - it was about Russia, about “bad Russians”, about GRU, but if the court begins, it will already be an internal story, it will be a story about a government that is not a very good reputation, to put it mildly, due to Brexit, it will be a story about a police that also does not have a good reputation ... ”

At this place, the co -host of the program Yevgeny Popov interrupted Vasiliev and, catching on the mention of the police, returned the conversation to the topic of the Flag Cathedral hung on the facade. Obviously, he did not want a more detailed conversation about the circumstances of the poisoning and claims of his parents.

Mentioning The Sun, Vasiliev is not entirely accurate: the rodes did not give an interview to this newspaper. In her publication, she refers to the much more solid The Guardian, where journalists Stephen Morris and Caroline Bannok talked about a conversation with the parents of the deceased.

The content of the article in The Guardian is also transmitted quite approximately. Former Mason Stan Strandes and his wife Caroline, a former civil servant, did not say that they did not believe in the official version that Russia was behind the poisoning. But, in their opinion, the authorities did not reveal all the information. Their main claim to the authorities is that the Skripal was settled in Salisbury, thereby exposing the danger of local residents. In addition, they consider it unfair that in the press their daughter-the mother of three children, originating from a respected family-represent some homeless drug addict.

The rodes said they did not feel hatred of Russia, since Russian agents did not have the goal of killing their daughter. “If they tried to kill the Don, it would be different,” said Stan. And he responded to the participants in the assassination attempt: “I don’t care whether they will be arrested, whether they will be put in prison.” Then Stan said: “I want justice from our own government. What are they hiding? I don’t think they opened all the facts to us. In any case, I believe that the government is to blame for the fact that Skripal settled in Salisbury. ”

Nothing is said about the possibility of a judicial lawsuit in the government in the publication of The Guardian. The word justice used by Stan should be translated in this context as “justice”, and not as “justice”: he says that in relation to his daughter is unfair, that she is depicted as a drug addict (obviously, due to the fact that the symptoms of poisoning were first mistaken for overdose of drugs), and the fact that some facts related to her death continue to hide.

The co -host of “60 minutes” exclusively interrupted his interlocutor as soon as he managed to say about the problems of the British government. As a result, the impression was that the responsibility for the death of Don Rodes and the poisoning of the Skripals, the constable Nika Bailey and the civil husband, Rodess Charlie Rowley, can be transferred from Russia to the British authorities, although there is no question of anything like that in the publication of The Guardian.