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The alleged attackers of the Skripal were identified as Alexander Yevgenyevich Michkin (left) and Anatoly Tchepiga. They would be respectively doctor and colonel of the GRU. Metropolitan Police handout via REUTERS

According to the British investigation site Bellingcat, the second suspect of the Russian spy Sergey Skripal's poisoning attempt and his daughter last March in Salisbury is a doctor from the Russian military intelligence service (GRU).

Ten days after identifying a first suspect of Skripal poisoning, Bellingcat recurs. The British investigation site based in Leicester (center) says it has identified the one presented as Alexander Petrov. It would be Alexander Yevgenyevich Michkin, a military doctor employed by the GRU, the intelligence service of the Russian army.

Bellingcat explains that he relied on " multiple sources ", including " testimonies of people familiar " with the individual, as well as copies of identity documents, including his passport, which he presents a photo.

According to Bellingcat, Alexander Yevgenyevich Michkin was born on July 13, 1979 in Loyga, a village in northwestern Russia. After studying medicine at a military academy, he was trained as a doctor in the Russian navy. Recruited during his studies by the GRU, he was then able to have an identity card and a passport in the name of Alexander Petrov.

This is the name that was communicated by the British police at the time of the submission of the findings of his investigation of the two men suspected of having tried to poison on March 4 in Salisbury Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Novitchok, an agent innervant developed by the Soviet military. The police then pointed out that the name used was probably a pseudonym.

On September 26, the site had already revealed the identity of the other suspect, presented by the British police as Ruslan Boshirov. " The suspect is Colonel Anatoli Tchepiga, a GRU officer with high honors, " Bellingcat said.

Vladimir Putin had said a few days earlier who were the two men implicated by London. The Russian president had assured that they were " civilians " who had not done anything " criminal ". A version confirmed by both men. In an interview with Russian TV RT, they claimed to have gone on vacation in Salisbury and denied being agents of the GRU.

Filmed by numerous surveillance cameras heading towards the home of the Skripal in Salisbury, the two suspects were formally charged in early September by London who launched an international arrest warrant against them without much hope of being able to judge them.

(With AFP)