Marcus Aurelio Arduini Monzoa 36-year-old Brazilian with dual Spanish nationality, is responsible for an attack with a sword in which a 14-year-old teenager died in London, in a 22-minute raid of blood and madness. He was charged with murder, police reported.
Four other people were injured, including two officers.
There is a 36-year-old man detained. It happened around 7 in the morning, in a town in northeast London.
Monzo “cut the first victim, a pedestrian, in the neck; he broke into the family home and attacked the father before murdering Daniel Anjorin, 14 years old when he was on his way to school and then almost cut off a police officer’s arm,” the Daily Mail reported this Thursday.
The attacker appeared in court on Thursday charged with Anjorin’s murder along with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of grievous bodily harm, aggravated robbery and possession of a sharp article.
“We’re starting to get an idea of what happened on Tuesday,” but The investigation is “complex given the number of crime scenes, forensic evidence, hours of video surveillance recordings and witnesses that we have to talk to,” Chief Inspector Larry Smith, in charge of the investigation, explained in a statement this Wednesday.
On Tuesday, police received a call “shortly before 07:00” local time, after several witnesses saw how a van crashed into a fence near a tube station in the London area of Hainault.
“A 33-year-old man was hit (by the van) and then attacked by the suspect, and suffered neck injuries“explained the person responsible for the investigation.
After, A 35-year-old man suffered “lacerations to his arm” after being attacked. The victim is the computer engineer Henry De Los Ríos Polania, who was stabbed while trying to fend off the attacker after he broke into the house while his four-year-old daughter was sleeping.
Monzo forced his way into the family home, shouting: “If you don’t believe in God, he will cause you harm.”
Then the attacker met the minor who was going to school on the street. Daniel Anjorin was attacked in the neck and chest. And he died later in the hospital.
Police arrived at the scene 12 minutes after the first emergency call and attempted to neutralize the suspect. with incapacitating spray and a stun gununsuccessfully.
The suspect seriously injured two police officers and “fled again before being surrounded by other officers”, before being finally arrested 22 minutes after the first call.
Prosecutors told the court that while officers were treating Daniel’s wounds, Monzo appeared from behind a bush and attacked a female police officer with the gun while she was on the ground.
A second officer named Moloy Campbell was also injured.
Henry De Los Ríos Polania’s sister, Jessica, said that her brother He was “traumatized” by the eventbut described his actions as heroic.
“He was devastated to see that something like this could happen,” he said, adding, “To us, he is our hero.” He protected them: my niece and my sister-in-law.
“They were literally sleeping, they opened their eyes and saw a man with a big machete.
“He felt helpless at the time, but for us he is our hero. He could have been extremely worse,” he said.
Mrs De Los Ríos said her brother was recovering in hospital after suffering a deep wound to his hand.
According to initial checks, the police were not aware that the man was involved in previous incidents and He ruled out a terrorist motive for the moment.
The events occurred in a context of increasing knife attacks in the United Kingdom and two days before the local elections in the British capital this Thursday, where the conservative opposition harshly criticizes the security balance of the Labor mayor Sadiq Khan, who is up for re-election.