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Breaking News - Jean Charles de Menezes

Tippa Naphtali | 02.08.2007 14:11 | Repression | Social Struggles | Birmingham | London

The official report from the IPCC has confirmed that the senior counter-terrorism police officer, Andy Hayman, misled the Met Commissioner over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005.

Jean Charles - shot dead by armed police
Jean Charles - shot dead by armed police


Met Chief was misled over de Menezes shooting
2nd August 2007
Britain's most senior counter-terrorism police officer deliberately misled his own commissioner about the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, an official report has found.
Read full article >  http://www.guardian.co.uk/menezes/story/0,,2140151,00.html

In the wrong place at the wrong time
2nd August 2007
Jean Charles de Menezes wanted to be an electrician from the age of 10. The blond-haired boy would tell his mother, Maria, that it was the way he would leave behind the poverty of rural Brazil for a better life abroad.
Read full article >  http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article301474.ece

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