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Police insisted second Salisbury novichok attack was drug overdose, inquiry told (www.theguardian.com)

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Police officers urged paramedics and firefighters to treat the second novichok incident in 2018 as a drug overdose despite warnings from the ambulance and fire services that it had similarities to the first poisoning four months earlier in Salisbury, a public inquiry has heard.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Do you think they didn’t want to do the paperwork for a terror attack?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

No, but I do think they're incompetent morons who don't want to do their job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

When the only tool you have is narcan then everything is an overdose. I swear cops would call their cold an overdose and narcan themselves.