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• A narwhal tusk and a fire extinguisher against the killer. The heroes of London Bridge passersby
• London, the bomber was on probation. The man who blocked him is a murderer
• Shoot on London Bridge. Pictures

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The UK Ministry of Justice began an urgent review of benefit and permit cases, such as half-liberty, to potentially dangerous prisoners overnight, examining at least 70 cases, at the input of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Some British media reports, including the BBC and the Daily Mail.

The government, also pressed by the Labor opposition of Jeremy Corbyn, who accuses him of tightening the purse strings with the police for reasons of austerity, was hit by the storm after Friday's attack on London Bridge.

The 28-year-old stabster Usman Khan, who killed two people and seriously injured 3 others, was found to have been released early, despite having served only 6 of the 16 years of the sentence imposed on him for terrorism in 2012.

Yesterday Johnson, who went to the site of the attack, promised "certainty of punishment" for dangerous subjects.

Speaking after the bombing and before the emergency British security meeting, Johnson had said: "I have long maintained that it is a mistake to allow serious and violent criminals to get out of prison early."

"It is very important - the premier added - to get out of this habit and to enforce the appropriate penalties for dangerous criminals, especially for terrorists, which I think the public will want to see".

ISIS claims the attack
Yesterday, the monitoring site of the jihadist galaxy, announced that ISIS claimed the attack by explaining that the London Bridge attacker was a "fighter".

Stop the election campaign
Several appointments of the electoral campaign have been suspended, both by Johnson's conservatives and by Jeremy Corbyn's Labor, as well as by Jo Swinson's Liberal Democrats, ahead of the vote next December 12, a vote in which the premier's party is approaching with a clear favor of the forecasts of the polls, with a further possible advantage now linked to the fact that the conservative program calls for safety on the streets as one of its flagships.

Former terrorist leader: fault of the judicial system
"We are playing Russian roulette with people's lives, leaving known, convicted free radical criminals circulating in our streets." Thus the former head of the British anti-terrorism office, Chris Phillips, has vented against "a judicial system that has to deal with himself".

"We get people out of jail, first we condemn them for very, very serious crimes and then we release them when they are still radicalized - added Phillips, according to the BBC website - so how the hell can we ask our policemen and security services to support us safe?".

A narwhal tusk and a fire extinguisher to stop the killers
A new video posted on the Daily Mail website shows what happened before the killer landed and was disarmed by a group of passers-by and then killed by the police. In the images, 28-year-old Usman Khan is chased by two people who block his way. One uses a fire extinguisher against him and the other wields a tusk of "narwhal", a whale of arctic seas. They manage to block it and make it fall. Without them, the toll of the attack, two victims and several wounded, would probably have been heavier.

One victim worked for the rehabilitation of prisoners
One of the two victims of the attack in London was 25-year-old Jack Merritt, a Cambridge graduate. He worked for Learning Togheter, the rehabilitation initiative for inmates who had organized the conference at Fishmongers'Hall where the attack began.

In a series of tweets, David Merritt, Jack's father declares he does not want his son's death to serve as a pretext for an increase in penalties. "My son Jack, who was killed in this attack, would not have wanted his death to be used as a pretext for draconian judgments or to detain people in prison without necessity - his father wrote - resting in peace Jack, you were a beautiful person who stood by the losers ".

The brave cop
It was a plainclothes official of the British Transport Police the man who was taken up by a video while carrying away the knife taken from the London Bridge killer, Usman Khan, after helping some civilians to tackle it. His commander revealed it today. "This morning I spoke with this brave official who challenged the danger yesterday, doing something remarkable," said Paul Crowther, chief constable of the British Transport Police. "He, like other citizens, must be extremely proud of having stopped the man on London Bridge," he added, without yet disclosing his identity.