A 22 - year - old young man was arrested in London during the investigation into the shooting which took place last Saturday in broad daylight , not far from Euston station , which left six injured : two girls and four women .

The victims, at the time of the attack, were leaving the Catholic Church of St. Aloysius after a funeral. According to the first reconstructions, the shots would have come from a speeding car . The suspect was stopped in Barnet, in the north of the British capital, driving a car - a black Toyota - potentially identified as the one used in the attack.

The shooting sowed panic as 300 faithful left the church, which was frequented in particular by communities of South American origin , at the end of a liturgy celebrated in memory of Sara Sanchez , a 20-year-old who died of leukemia in November, and her mother , killed by a embolus the same month on his arrival by plane at Heathrow from Colombia.

The health conditions of the victims would now be stable but the most serious are those of one of the two girls, not yet out of danger. The other is already at home while the four women remain in hospital – but not in danger of life.

In the background of the investigations there also appears - as a potential indirect link - the shadow of a story of dirty money laundering by Colombian drug traffickers. According to what the Daily Telegraph writes, in fact, the ex-husband of one of the two women whose death was commemorated would be Carlos Arturo Sanchez Coronado : a Colombian offender detained in the United Kingdom since 2009. The man is charged with the he accuses of laundering around £100m on the island for the Cali drug cartel . Sanchez Coronado was later extradited to London from Colombia where he sought refuge. At the moment, however, the link between the man and the shooting is only a hypothesis .

(Unioneonline/vf)

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