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Citizen security has made the definitive leap to the British electoral campaign less than two weeks after the general election and just two days after the attack on the London Bridge that left two fatalities and three wounded by a knife. The prime minister, the conservative Boris Johnson, pleaded at the scene for hardening the penalties in the face of criticism that his party was receiving for having cut the number of police officers on the streets of the United Kingdom by 20,000 over the past nine years.

The terrorist who killed two people on Friday and wounded three others on the London Bridge, an attack claimed by the Islamic State yesterday , has been identified as Usman Khan, an English citizen of Stoke-on-Trent who, after six years in prison for terrorist offenses, he was released on probation with a tracking device in December 2018. The 28-year-old had been arrested in 2010 as a member of a cell that sought to imitate Al Qaeda's methods to place a bomb on The London Stock Exchange.

"It makes no sense that we, as a society, release people convicted of terrorism and serious violence crimes ahead of time ," said Johnson, who says that in his election program he intends to "tighten sentences for serious crimes and violent. " "I've been saying for a long time that the fact of releasing really violent criminals in the middle of the sentence just doesn't work, and, in this case, I'm afraid we have clear proof of that ."

The fear among the torys that this attack could take part of their electoral advantage, as happened to May in the 2017 general elections , was fueled by the debate between the main parties of the country. Although the leaders of the main parties of the country did not attend, all their representatives have unanimously looked towards the conservatives to demand that they give a convincing response not only to this latest incident, but to the violence recorded during the years in which They have been in power .

"This has been an event of utmost importance, but we cannot ignore what has happened in recent years in which we have seen an increase in violent crimes in our country. That coincides with the 20,000 fewer police officers we have since 2010 because of the cuts in basic services, "denounced Labor Long-Bailey.

For their part, the authorities have already offered a reconstruction of the steps of the terrorist, who began his aggression during an event on criminal rehabilitation: "The facts, as we know them at this time, suggest that the attacker went to an appointment called "Learning Together" during the early hours of Friday afternoon at the Fishmongers' Hall. We understand that the attack began inside, before leaving the building on the way to the London Bridge , where he was held and later confronted and shot by agents. " .

Only one of the two people he killed, a man and a woman, has been publicly identified , while three others were also injured. Jack Merritt, coordinator of the appointment attended by the terrorist, has been the first face identified among the victims.

Usman Khan, sentenced in February 2010, received a sentence without maximum time in prison, but for which he had to always serve a minimum of eight years. In 2013, the appeals court granted him a fixed sentence of 16 years and an extended period of probation.

The 28-year-old terrorist served a year in prison awaiting his new sentence and then about seven others before being released in December 2018 for planning an attack on the London Stock Exchange and founding a terrorist training camp. These facilities would also have been located on land that the Khan family has in the Kashmir area, controlled by Pakistan, and for that they would have been trying to seek funding to train a "significant" number of British Muslims to make them "some more organized and effective terrorists. " Both he and his other eight companions were arrested in 2010 in the framework of a major anti-terrorist operation, which is why, as Scotland Yard confirmed, his name was "known by the authorities ."

In fact, during the investigation the agents punctured their home phones and heard, in one of their conversations, that they intended to camouflage the training camp as if it were a madrasa , that is, a Muslim school.

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