Thursday, July 28, 2005

Further info on the "mistaken" police slaying in London

Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian shot dead in the head, was not wearing a heavy jacket that might have concealed a bomb, and did not jump the ticket barrier when challenged by armed plainclothes police, his cousin said yesterday.

Speaking at a press conference after a meeting with the Metropolitan police, Vivien Figueiredo, 22, said that the first reports of how her 27-year-old cousin had come to be killed in mistake for a suicide bomber on Friday at Stockwell tube station were wrong.

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Yesterday it emerged one armed officer involved has been given leave, and two have been moved to non-firearm duties

  Guardian article

Previous posts on the London attacks.

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