The Impossible Photo 1229


UPDATE

I am prepared to acknowledge that, given the gate design, they could have passed through different gates in exact synchronicity and this may be a red herring. I am leaving this post up here as it is good to acknowledge mistakes. Please read my updated post Skripals – The Mystery Deepens

Russia has developed an astonishing new technology enabling its secret agents to occupy precisely the same space at precisely the same time.

These CCTV images released by Scotland yard today allegedly show Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov both occupying exactly the same space at Gatwick airport at precisely the same second. 16.22.43 on 2 March 2018. Note neither photo shows the other following less than a second behind.

There is no physically possible explanation for this. You can see ten yards behind each of them, and neither has anybody behind for at least ten yards. Yet they were both photographed in the same spot at the same second.

The only possible explanations are:
1) One of the two is travelling faster than Usain Bolt can sprint
2) Scotland Yard has issued doctored CCTV images/timeline.

I am going with the Met issuing doctored images.

UPDATE

A number of people have pointed out a third logical possibility, that the photographs are not of the same place and they are coming through different though completely identical entry channels. The problem with that is the extreme synchronicity. You can see from the photos that the channel(s) are enclosed and quite long, and they would have had to enter different entrances to the channels. So it is remarkable they were at exactly the same point at the same time. Especially as one of them appears to be holding (wheeled?) luggage and one has only a shoulder bag.
I have traveled through Gatwick many times but cannot call to mind precisely where they are. Can anybody pinpoint the precise place in the airport? Before or after passport control? Before or after baggage collection? Before or after customs? The only part of the airport this looks like to me is shortly after leaving the plane after the bridge, and before joining the main gangway to passport control – in which case passengers are not split into separated channels at the stage this was taken. I can’t recall any close corridors as long as this after passport control. But I am open to correction.
Please read my updated post Skripals – The Mystery Deepens


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  • grafter

    That’s it keep on lying Mrs May and your little gang of Tory misfits. Keep on lying to the electorate. Got news for you …they don’t believe a word you say. Your time is coming to an end and by the way you needn’t bother to concoct another false flag in Syria. Don’t let the door hit you on the arse on the way out.

  • Bryn Gerard

    One would expect a snapshot of CCTV footage to include the location of the view the camera has. This can be turned off but when you are looking lots of pictures with similarity, it is easy to become confused and hence in large facilities, they would be on.

    These images are made to look like digital photographs of a monitor displaying the footage. It is not the actual footage. doing this makes it easy to hide any artefacts that arise in an image when it has been doctored.

  • laguerre

    The more interesting question is why now? and what are the objectives of this less than certain revelation?

    May must be pretty close to desperate, Chequers having been rejected, and Raab talking about “no-deal deals”, which was already evident in the no-deal technical notices already published (I have my doubts that there are going to be any others. The first lot, although severely toned down, in order not to frighten the children, still caused an explosion of horror). No-deal deals are in the heads of Brexiters, not in those of the EU.

    In this situation, May is desperate to find a solution, unless she really favours no-deal, which could be the case. Brexit is her principle pre-occupation. Skirpal has to be a diversion. She doesn’t really want war with Russia, though the US war-cons do.

    • giyane

      Laguerre

      They are covering up the scandal of the Blairites accepting the IHRA’s Zionist Charter. After achieving this travesty of free speech after months of unrelenting political pressure, Mrs May will now get a deal from the Rothschilds in the Champs Elysee.

      On Marche. The Brexit light has now gone green. Mrs May will be hailed as a strong and persuasive leader and cheered by the British people. While in reality she lay back and thought of Britain while the Zionists had their evil way.

      Cameron prostituted himself to the Zionists by bombing Libya. Blair, Iraq and Afghanistan.
      When the zionists’s penises are inserted into US and UK politicians, bullets and bombs fly out of their eyes on Muslim countries. It’s a free service in exchange for …. being left in peace to water your garden in your old age. Metaphor applies.

      • laguerre

        Much as though I have sympathy for your position, I doubt that it’s May’s primary pre-occupation. Her full -time is being taken up by Brexit.

    • Mighty Drunken

      I find it a bit eerie that after the Syria conflict died down it has popped back up in the news with talk of a major offensive and claims / counter claims about a possible “false flag” chemical attack. The same situation which occurred just after the Skripal incident.

      Many commented that the timing was also convenient for May and MPs return to parliament. Something to distract us away from the general woe of British politics.

      • laguerre

        The thing is, it would be absolute folly to launch an attack on Syria on the back of Skirpal. It’s a losing project, even with a false-flag chemical attack. The French are backing out, if I understand correctly, so it would be Britain and its two Tornados who go along with the Yanks. Quagmire is flashing red lights.

    • LenkaPenka

      Or the same place, however the image was tilted for the second photo, could have been taken with a still camera.

      What would be interesting is an evaluation of the focal length of both images, or reconstruction of soe sort of metadata that indicates the device type.

      I’d expect the metadata to have been stripped by software tools, however perhaps some remnants left behind.

    • Mighty Drunken

      I notice that the camera appears dirty in both pictures but in different places. Suggesting that they are different cameras. So your explanation does make sense. Also the difference in tilt.
      Shame if true, I like a good old conspiracy theory. 🙂

    • Al

      Makes sense.
      If it is the same corridor then there’s very big gap between them.
      Shame though… it was a good theory whilst it lasted.

  • Dave Lawton

    It would be normal for Sergei Skripal with his background to have CCTV placed outside of his house.Why are we not shown a photo of the assassin`s putting the nerve agent on the door knob.The whole story is phoney.

    • Mighty Drunken

      It would make sense but maybe there wasn’t a camera. What doesn’t make sense is that no good CCTV has been released of the Skripals in Salisbury which is full of new CCTV cameras.
      There were two clips released, one early on which definitely were not the Skripals. Another from a restaurant (released by the restaurant not the police) which may have been them, it is hard to tell. Both clips were of poor quality, the clips of the two suspects around Salisbury show you that the new council CCTV system is working and has pretty good cameras.

  • KR

    Clearly “the extreme synchronicity” was deliberate: the investigators paused the recording at exactly the same point on two different recordings from two different channels to show that the two men arrived together.

  • Paul McGuinness

    It will be the narrow doors you go through as you come out arrivals into main terminal, where there’s about 3 million cameras on you. It’s amazing in the day of high definition cameras that these images are always grainy!

  • DH

    Via RT website a quote from Charles Shoebridge, a security expert and a former British military officer saying British investigators must have been pretty frustrated that due to the government’s accusation of Russia they could not rely on the Russian law enforcement in their work.”We know the departure and arrival times of these two individuals. That could have been cross-checked by the Russian authorities on their systems, as to what identifies were used,”

  • jillian lea

    This whole scenerio including the first supposed Sktipals poisonings scream subterfuge and plotting to me for these simple reasons , There were no immediate photographs or footage of them in hospital , then when mayhem went to visit the scene , which by the way was a very serious and sombre setting , what does she do grins from ear to ear and fist bumps the crowd . Im sorry but non of it adds up or rings true and does not make any sense at all !!

  • lennart Odhström

    Having passed through Gatwick many times, to me it must be before you come to the passport control. Just before you descend.

  • Chaz Wyman

    You are tilting at windmills.
    The real issue is entirely different.
    Russian agents enter the UK all the time, just as British agents enter Russia. So what? These images prove nothing and by offering a dubious objection you are setting yourself up for failure. A failure which diminishes your credibility, and enriches the establishment.
    So why are these images being posted? Why now? What do they mean?
    Fake or not – your objection is not important.

  • J.B.

    Enough has been said about the photos.
    Here is a quote:
    The head of the counter-terrorism branch of the Metropolitan Police, Neil Basu, whom I have known for many years hasn’t attracted much media attention for his statement on the new developments, and that undoubtedly is because he – who is in charge of the case – was asked at his press conference if he had any evidence that the two men in the images were Russian State operatives, he answered simply, “No”.
    See George Galloway: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/437729-skripal-poisoning-suspects-russia/

    • laguerre

      The RT account is a bit tendentious. Do we know at what press conference this event took place? And other reports?

  • Timothy Kinnaird

    If they can convince the world that what we saw as obvious controlled demolition on 9/11 was not controlled demolition, they can convince us now that what we don’t see is what is.

  • Dave Mellor

    Suspicious but not quite enough. Differences in the edge of the red poster (bottom right), the camera angles are slightly different, there’s a shadow on the wall behind the 8 in 2018 in one photo which is not in the other photo. So, it’s two different cameras but an ‘amazing’ coincidence that the two men were at the same relative positions in two different corridors at the same instant Maybe the date stamps were doctored to be the same, but that would be pointless and counter-productive.

  • menechem golani

    it would seem to me already that putin is out of control.
    we cannot have peace with this man in power shirley with these proofs putin is in serious trouble.
    putin is at this very moment bombing the innocents of syria with the largest amount of bombs since the start of animal assads killing spree.
    the bbc are reporting many mothers and children trapped surrounded by the saa while the butcher of sochi drops death from above.
    if we allow putin and assad to get away with this israel could be nest if corbyn gets into power we could be on the cuspe of a 1939 all over again.
    shirley it is time to nato and europe israel canada austrailia and usa usa to end this slaughter.
    israel must prevail or the world must burn like museum in brasil and art gallery in scotland
    sampson has many options

    • laguerre

      Shirley you mean Trump is out of control. Putin is not a very uncontrolled person, whatever else you accuse him of.

    • Deb O'Nair

      “shirley it is time to nato and europe israel canada austrailia and usa usa to end this slaughter.”

      Are you kidding? NATO started the mess in the first place with massive help from the Saudis and occasional help from Israel. The slaughter has been coming to an end but the US and it ‘allies’ insist on keeping it going.

  • Inspector Gadget

    These are the exit doors at Gatwick that take you out into landside from airside after baggage collection.

    It is so easy for them to be in synchronicity. Any couple of people, or more arriving at the exit channels, would easily filter into different lanes and pass through at the same time.

  • Norwegian

    If you flip one image horizontally, rotate it to match the backgrounds and then make a GIF animation, you get this:
    https://postimg.cc/image/x1ixk7r4x/

    It is the same tunnel. Different times. Camera rotated and image flipped to make it look different. Identical time stamps. Very poor job. The police ‘evidence’ is a fabrication.

    • Doodlebug

      There is at least one visible oddity within the stills originally presented. The angle at which the two gates are open is slightly different left from right. Curiously the situation is exactly reversed from one image to the next, a feature which is ‘corrected’ by your animation, in which the gates on either side overlay perfectly. Can that degree of correspondence be coincidental?

      Another characteristic which appears to support your manipulation is the orientation of the subjects, who, in the original images, appear to ‘lean’ in opposite directions. Surely in a confined space (or spaces) such as this there would be no need for a tilt/swivel camera to be fitted. On the contrary, if such an installation were in duplicate/triplicate etc. the viewpoint would probably be standardized, resulting in consistency of viewing angle, not divergent perspective.

    • Mighty Drunken

      Convincing but not quite. If we assume that two tunnels were constructed to the same specification and made of the same measured parts then I would see this happening if you changed the tilt and flipped. Like my house is a mirror image of the one next door. However this would only work if the cameras were placed in exactly the same location, though one is more tilted.
      There are a few artefacts on the image which look like dust, these don’t appear to match between the two images. However I guess it is possible that fake dirt was added to make them look different.

      Still undecided.

  • Richard

    Its the automated gates between baggage and the main terminal, they look exactly the same and perfectly reasonable that 2 people arriving together would use one each rather than follow consecutively as they are narrow yet short.

  • Richard Wells

    Even if different channels the likely hood of photos being taken at exactly the same time I’d put at zero.

  • LenkaPenka

    Examination of Metadata from photos:

    Creation Dates:
    2018:05:03 13:46:30
    2018:05:03 18:43:50

    Possibly incorrect as they have been resized from the original, this could have been the date they were modified with “Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384”.

  • Peter Cank

    The camera angle is different for each photo suggesting a different camera or as Gareth Davies says, they are at different points in the same corridor?

    • Norwegian

      No, they flipped one image to give that impression + rotated the camera ca 20 degrees. Reverse the process and you see there is a complete match https://postimg.cc/image/x1ixk7r4x/ . It is the same tunnel at different times. Time stamps added, they forgot to make different time stamps. This is proof of evidence fabrication and the implication is that the whole Skripal case story is fabricated as well.

      • Doodlebug

        There is however a caveat. In the static image of the pair arriving at Heathrow airport (Petrov leading), Petrov carries something in his left hand, his bag hung over his left shoulder and accessible to his right hand. This is exactly the configuration apparent in the original ‘Gatwick’ picture, but which is obviously reversed in a ‘flipped’ image.

  • Patrick Graham

    Whatever else is true, these 2 photos were not taken by the same fixed position camera at all.
    The metal rails on each side of each of them don’t match.
    This could be because, as some have suggested, these are two different walkways, or, the camera has been moved and the effect of perhaps a multiple movement and cropping has caused the angle of the metal bars on those things to appear different…
    Either way it leaves the coincidence of timing issue

  • John2o2o

    Aside from the fact that these two could be just about anyone. These are images of two men.

    Has anyone got any genuine evidence of who they actually are?

    Maybe they’re Ukrainians looking to poison the Skripals, knowing that the British government would be too stupid to suspect them and would immediately blame their enemy, Russia.

    Maybe they’re a couple of MI6 agents. Who knows?

  • Daithí O`Giollagán

    I believe it is the same corridor . Looking at the second full wall panel from the left there is identical shading /marking. Note the vertical line close to the left side of the panel and more pronounced towards the top. Also note the identical shading at the left , just above the metal post.

    • mog

      The gates are different.

      Does this debunk the government narrative though?
      At 9:15 on 4 March the car of Sergei Skripal was seen in the area of London Road, Churchill Way North and Wilton Road at Salisbury. “11.48am: Men caught on CCTV exiting Salisbury railway station.” So – unless Skripals went back home?
      twitter.com/liamhennesce/status/1037462827269844993

      • Daithí

        I cannot see a difference in the gates in the photos. Can anybody else see a difference. I have been involved in construction and fitouts at airports over many years. The specs and dimensions for control gates in parallel corridors in the same facility would be most unusual.

      • Mighty Drunken

        There is a gap in the morning so I think the assumption is after their morning trip they went home, were poisoned then went to Salisbury. However, other than the car sighting around 9 the timeline is empty till about 1:40 when they approach Salisbury. So we don’t know where they actually were during that time.

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