Real History and the war against Terror The Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech Alphabetical index (text) Police may pay $1.3m for terrorist mix-up BRITAIN’s Metropolitan Police could pay up to $1.3 million in damages to the family of the innocent Brazilian who was shot dead in a bungled anti-terror chase in London, a newspaper reports.
The Daily Mail reports that John Yates , deputy assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, is expected to make an initial payment to the family of electrician 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes . However, legal experts quoted by the newspaper believe the force could end up paying up to .3 million to the impoverished family. Police officials were quoted as saying the final figure will be “very substantial”.
In Sao Paulo, the Globonews web site says a British Government delegation arrived in Brazil on Sunday and would travel to Mr de Menezes’ home town of Gonzaga, in south-east Brazil, to meet his parents to discuss compensation. Mr 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 [ Website: and one in the back ]. He was buried in Gonzaga on Friday in a ceremony that attracted an estimated 10,000 people and was marked by anti-British protests.
The arrival of the British delegation could not be confirmed with the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. – AFP David Irving, a Radical’s Diary predicts compensation will have to be paid The above item is reproduced without editing other than typographical 2005