Terror in central London in the name of "Allah" and blood on the elections in Great Britain, just 4 days after the June 8th vote. A double attack was carried out during the night in the heart of the capital of the Kingdom: first on London Bridge, the symbol of the city, where a minibus ran over several pedestrians and then three attackers got out and stabbed other passers-by; then in the Borough Market area, where the same commando continued his killing action before falling under the blows of the police. The toll is 7 dead (in addition to the three terrorists). 36 were injured, twenty-one are "in critical condition", including a policeman, said the head of Scotland Yard Police Mark Rowley. It takes time to identify the victims in the London attack because some are foreign, Rowley added. Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Enzo Amendola reiterated that, at the moment, there are no Italians among the victims of the attack.
In the meantime, the intelligence work continues unabated. Police carried out a raid in East Ham, after the one in Barking, which resulted in 12 arrests. It is here that the agents found the apartment of one of the terrorists, a man with Middle Eastern features, married and with children. And it is here that, according to the testimony of a neighbor, one of the killers was expelled from the local mosque. “He didn't want to leave – he said – and he was forcibly sent away”. The details of those eight minutes of terror that elapsed from the beginning of the assault on London Bridge to the killing of the three terrorists also begin to emerge. To block them, Rowley explained, 50 shots were fired by eight officers, one of which ended up against a passerby who was not in danger of life.
The police now do not rule out that the three terrorists may have had accomplices outside the command still to be identified. After the tough speech delivered in the morning ("Enough is enough - you said - things must change"), Theresa May went to visit the wounded in the hospital, while the Queen "prayed for the victims" of the attack .
