A man driving a van knocks down and injures eight people in New York

At least eight people were injured Monday, February 13 in New York after a man driving a van hit them in various places in the megalopolis, announced the police, who ruled out at this stage any terrorist motive.

The local press quickly mobilized when the New York police (NYPD) reported having been confronted at the end of Monday morning with the refusal to comply by a driver of a rental van who had struck and knocked down several pedestrians in Brooklyn, one of the five districts of the megalopolis.

Police officers tried to stop the vehicle, which continued its course, overturning other people in several places in the neighborhood before being chased and its driver was finally arrested.

A total of seven bystanders and a police officer were injured, two of whom are in critical condition.

Of the eight injured, three were riding small mopeds, police said.

"There is no indication of an involvement of terrorism"

"There is no indication of any involvement of terrorism"

in this case, assured during a brief press briefing on the spot, in Brooklyn, the head of NYPD, Keechant Sewell.

But

," added the boss of the New York City police, deeply marked by terrorism and ultra-aware of warnings about attacks.

Moreover, the incident of Monday noon occurred at the opening of a trial in Manhattan of an Uzbek who risks the death penalty for having, on October 31, 2017, killed eight people whom he had voluntarily knocked down and crushed at the wheel of his pick-up, an attack perpetrated in the name of the Islamic State group.