Story By: Ana Marjanovic, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News
Chilly residents of a Moscow block of flats have blamed Salisbury-nerve-agent victim Yulia Skripal for causing the building’s heating to go off.
According to local media, residents of the apartment block on Davydkovskaya Street in the western Russian capital Moscow called emergency plumbers after they found themselves without any heating.
They turned up and after checking the entire building confirmed everything was in order and that the problem must therefore lie in the one place they were not allowed inside – which is the locked up flat of Yulia Skripal – currently in hiding in the UK.
According to local media, it is believed that a blocked pipe in Skripal’s flat is the cause of the building’s heating problem.
A resident said: “They inspected all the apartments except for one on the ground floor. They also checked the basement and attic and did not find any issues. “
“The authorities visited us about five times, and every time they said the same thing, ‘the Skripals are to blame’.”
The ground-floor flat belongs to Yulia who has not been seen at the properties and she was attacked with the nerve agent Novichok in the English city of Salisbury along with her Russian spy dad Sergei, a former Russian military officer, on 4th March 2018.
Reports said that friends of Yulia Skripal occasionally visit the flat, but no one knows how to contact them either.
Russian officials say they need to be able to contact Skripal or any of her friends in order to fix the heating problem.
She has not been seen at the flat since she left it in 2018 to move with her father to Salisbury, according to reports.
Skripal and her father were then attacked in the English city in March with the nerve agent Novichok and the British authorities pointed the finger at the Russian government over the incident.
Since recovering from the attack, their location has been secretly guarded as the investigation is still ongoing.
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