Britain Could Pay One Million Dollars To Brazilian FamilyYou already know the facts: (1) Menezes was in the country illegally since his visa had expired, (2) he was seen wearing a heavy overcoat in the Tube in July, (3) when police tried to detain him for questioning he ran, (4) he resisted police until they shot him.
LONDON, (AFP) - Britain’s Metropolitan Police could pay up to one million dollars in damages to the family of the innocent Brazilian who was shot dead in a bungled anti-terror chase in London, a newspaper reported. The Daily Mail said John Yates, deputy assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, was expected to make an initial payment to the family of electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, 27.
However, legal experts quoted by the Daily Mail believe the force could end up paying up to one million dollars to the impoverished family. Police officials were quoted as saying the final figure will be “very substantial.” In Sao Paulo, the Globonews website said a British government delegation had arrived in Brazil Sunday and would travel Monday to de Menezes’ home town of Gonzaga, in southeast Brazil, to meet his parents to discuss compensation.
De Menezes was killed on July 22 after British police followed him from a London address they had been watching in connection with four failed bomb attacks the day before. Mistaking him for a suicide bomber, officers cornered the Brazilian inside a subway train and shot him eight times at close range, seven times in the head. He was buried in Gonzaga on Friday in a ceremony that attracted an estimated 10,000 people and was marked by anti-British protests.
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Oh and a certain Mr Hitler took over Germany on this date in history, yet nothing on tv about it. How soon the free world forgets the lessons of history...
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