British scientist unable to identify the origin of the Novichok nervous agent

Science Chief Executive for Protection and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), Gary Atticenhead from Porton Down, told “Sky News” has yet to confirm whether this type of poison was produced in Russia.

He said: “We were able to identify him as novichok, to identify that he was a military nervous agent. ”

We have not identified the source where it came from, but we have given scientific information to the government who later used a number of other sources to bring together the conclusions you have. ”

He said the creation of his origin requires additional “interventions”, some of which are based on intelligence, which the government has access, reports “Sky News”, report Periscope.

Atticenhead added “is our duty to provide scientific data in what this nervous agent is actually in, in identifying from which particular field it comes from and from which military degrees, but our task is not to say which factory it was produced. ”

However, he confirmed that this substance is the extra-defiscated “through a creative method. ”

He said he didn't have an antidote for novichoki.

Meanwhile, the foreign office has said it believes Russia is behind this attack./Periscopi/