Police search for clues ahead of a military deployment to Salisbury, a city not used to global attention Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesResidents called it Smallsbury, because nothing ever happened there. As details of the attack on the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, have emerged, the mood in the city of 40,000 people has changed from fascination to alarm, with no shortage of wild rumours. One storekeeper claimed that several weeks ago a Russian was found hiding in the roof of Zizzi, the Italian restaurant where the Skripals ate. The trader said: “One person was assaulted when this person was discovered. The police are looking at it again after what happened.”Wiltshire police said they did not have the time to trawl back through past crime reports and were unable to confirm the incident.

Source: The Times March 10, 2018 00:02 UTC