Why was the Russian spy poisoned?

Police are trying to identify the substance that caused the former Russian agent's serious health condition, charged with giving Russia's secret state Britain.

Russian intelligence Colonel Scripal 66-year-old was deployed in Britain after “exchange of spies” between the United States and Russia in 2010.

Scribal and a woman, at the age of 33, known among them, are in critical condition for hospital life.

Meanwhile, a restaurant has closed as a precautionary security measure.

The man and woman were found unconscious at a Stone in Malting shopping mall on Sunday, March 4, 2018

Police say the couple had no appearance of injuries, and the police are investigating whether a crime is behind it.

“is being investigated over suspected exposure of an unknown substance. The focus is on the answer to the question: What they received from this critical situation” says a BBC police official

Col Scripal was a Russian secret military officer who in 2006 was sentenced to 13 years in Russia.

It was the fact that Scripal gave the Secret Intelligence Service in the United Kingdom, MI6 the identity of secret Russian intelligence agents working in secret in Europe.

History has been back in time, in 2006.

The Russian dissident and former intelligence officer died in London after drinking tea where a radioactive substance was thrown.

A public investigation concluded that his murder was probably carried out with the approval of Russian President Vladimir Putin.