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Brazil sends mission to probe London shooting
www.chinaview.cn 2005-08-20 00:26:00

    LONDON, August 19 (Xinhuanet) -- A Brazilian investigation team is to be sent to London to look into the killing of a Brazilian youngman by police in relation to investigation into an abortive London bombing, the Sky news television reported Friday.

    Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old electrician was shot deadby anti-terrorist police at Stockwell subway station in south London after being mistaken for a suicide bomb suspect.

    The Brazilian team will arrive in London next week. The team will be led by the country's Deputy Attorney General, who will speak directly with police officers and witnesses, said the report.

    The young Brazilian's family is angry that the Metropolitan Police have done nothing to correct the widely publicized impression that de Menezes' demeanor and mode of dressing contributed to his death.

    Alessando Pereira, de Menezes' cousin, held a news conference outside the subway station in the wake of the assertion by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair that he has done nothing to warrant his resignation.

    "The police know Jean was innocent and yet they let my family suffer -- they let us suffer, Ian Blair let us suffer. For three weeks we have had to listen to lie after lie about Jean and how hewas killed," said Pereira.

    The Independent Police Complaints Commission which is investigating the case, has still to officially confirm a Sky Newsreport that a clerk at the commission has been suspended on suspicion of leaking documents on the shooting to the media.

    Documents leaked to ITV (Independent Television) News suggest de Menezes did not flee from armed officers by vaulting over barriers before getting onto an underground train, where the officers opened fire.

    The Brazilian was not even seen leaving the flats in Tulse Hill which were under surveillance because one of the officers was "relieving himself."

    The leaked report says de Menezes entered the station at a normal walking pace and picked up a copy of a free newspaper.

    He was seen to slowly descend the escalators before running for a train and sitting down.

    The report also indicated the 27-year-old was wearing a light denim jacket and not the heavily padded coat as initially claimed.

    Witnesses said he was not aware he was being followed until shotdead in the car.

    The report also said a post mortem examination showed that de Menezes was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder.Enditem

    

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