A man has been arrested after an 11-year-old girl and a 34-year-old woman were stabbed in central London’s Leicester Square, London’s Metropolitan Police reported this Monday.
The Police indicated that the two victims They were transferred to a major medical center, without transcending further details about the severity of his injuries.
The stabbing occurred at a time of maximum tension in the United Kingdomafter the violent riots who toured the country last weekspurred by groups of extreme right.
Crowds shouting slogans anti-immigrant e islamophobe They clashed with the Police and caused destruction in numerous parts of the British geography, after far-right activists spread hoaxes on social networks about the identity of the attacker stabbing that killed three girls during a Taylor Swift-themed workshop in the English town of Southport at the end of July.
At the moment It is unclear if the stabbing from this monday has some connection with the riots. The Police and the British Government had prepared for more riots this past weekendbut no major incidents were reported, and thousands of people took to the streets of London and other British cities on Saturday to protest against racism and xenophobic hate rhetoric.
Leicester Square it’s a magnet for touristsbeing full of shops, theaters and cinemas. It is estimated that the emblematic square and its surroundings receive 2.5 million visitors every week.
