Even if Scotland Yard has expressly asked not to speculate, once a terrorist motive has been ruled out, the possibility remains of a fit that pushed the man armed with a sword, it appears from the first images released to be a katana, to attack indiscriminately those he met in front of him. at the Tube station. “We were called just before 7am to reports of a vehicle having crashed into a house in the Thurlow Gardens area. There have been reports of people being stabbed,” reads the note released by the Met Police. “At this moment we understand that the suspect then attacked some people and two police officers.” And again: «We are waiting for updates on the conditions of the injured». The first to break the news of what was happening in the suburban district of Hainault was the local Labor MP Wes Streeting, who holds the role of Health Minister within the shadow government. «Station and road closures are in place. The police, ambulances and firefighters are responding to the scene,” he wrote on his X profile.
