Three years before Salisbury she was tested in Bulgaria? Photo: EPA-EFE On March 4, 2018, the “Novice”, who arrived in the English Salisbury, it seems, was not such an inexperienced creature. Three years before applying him to the Skripals family, the “newcomer” was trained in the territory of sunny Bulgaria. This conclusion was reached by journalists from the investigative communities Bellingcat and The Insider.