THE POLICE STATE ASSASSINATION OF JEAN CHARLES DE MENEZES

(And the subsequent cover-up)

This leaked Police photo shows the Brazilian student Jean Charles Menezes, who was shot and killed by armed officers at Stockwell underground station, in south London. This photo clearly shows that the victim of the shooting was in fact not wearing a bulky jacket, as was reported by the Met. Police. Photograph: UK ITV News

MAINSTREAM MEDIA NEWS LINKS: -

• Tube police 'used banned bullets' - The innocent Brazilian man shot dead by anti-terror officers after being mistaken for a suicide bomber was killed using "dumdum" style bullets that were banned from use in warfare. Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head at Stockwell Tube station just a day after the failed July 21 bombings. Reports claimed that the firearms officers involved in the operation had used hollow point ammunition, which expands and splinters on impact.

• Brazilian did not wear bulky jacket - Relatives say Met admits that, contrary to reports, electrician did not leap tube station barrier

• Leak disputes Menezes death story - Leaked documents appear to contradict the official account of how police mistook a Brazilian man for a suicide bomber and shot him. The papers, from the probe into Jean Charles de Menezes' death, and leaked to ITV, suggest he was restrained before being shot eight times.

• Police and Tube firm at odds over CCTV footage of innocent Brazilian's shooting - Police officers and station managers were at odds last night over the existence of crucial CCTV-footage of the shooting of a Brazilian man wrongly suspected of being a suicide bomber.  None of the cameras at the scene of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July were working, a police document revealed.  COMMENT:  Do we really believe these lying buggers? 

• Brazilian's family claim police altered their story - THE family of the Brazilian man shot dead by marksmen who mistook him for a suicide bomber revealed last night how police have changed their account of the incident.    (Alternative Backup Link)

• Police under pressure over Menezes leak - Family representatives and campaigners for the Brazilian man shot dead on a London tube train are demanding to know how Scotland Yard allowed misleading information to circulate about his killing.

• Woman arrested over Menezes leak - A woman has been arrested over the leak of findings about the fatal police shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes on the Tube, it has emerged.  The 43-year-old was arrested at one of a number of London addresses searched. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) leak prompted claims police had covered up details of the shooting at Stockwell station in July.

• Footage of Tube shooting has gaps, says IPCC - POLICE watchdogs investigating the death of Jean Charles de Menezes believe that they have all the relevant closed-circuit television film relating to his shooting but admit that there are gaps. According to Brazilian officials, who were briefed yesterday by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, some of the cameras at Stockwell Underground station may not have been working.

• Menezes' family calls for justice - Relatives of the Brazilian man killed by police on the Tube have demanded the resignation of London's top officer and the prosecution of those responsible. They accused Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair of lying about aspects of the shooting, and of attempting a cover-up.

• Menezes death 'a state execution' - The shooting dead of Jean Charles de Menezes during a hunt for terrorists amounted to "a state execution", a leading Liberal Democrat has said. Matthew Taylor, the party's former chairman, said the "fundamentals of civil liberties" were under threat from government-led anti-terror efforts.

• Police who shot Brazilian on Tube 'to escape charges' - THE two police marksmen who shot dead an innocent Brazilian in the belief that he was a suicide bomber will escape criminal charges for murder or manslaughter, sources close to the inquiry believe. Senior Scotland Yard officers and Whitehall sources are convinced prosecutors will accept the defence of the marksmen who shot Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old electrician, at Stockwell Tube station on July 22.

ALTERNATIVE MEDIA REPORTS: -

• Oxford Law Prof alarmed at "police’s Mossad-style execution" of innocent ’suspect’ - Police state: Like many of my fellow-Londoners I am less alarmed by suicide bombers than I am by the police’s Mossad-style execution of a ’suspect’ (who turned out to be a completely innocent passer-by) on Friday 22 July.

OTHER MATERIAL: -

• WIKIPEDIA: Jean Charles de Menezes