{"id":171296,"date":"2024-11-09T04:56:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T04:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/09\/met-police-marksman-who-shot-jean-charles-de-menezes-after-7-7-london-bombings-speaks-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2024-11-09T04:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T04:56:12","slug":"met-police-marksman-who-shot-jean-charles-de-menezes-after-7-7-london-bombings-speaks-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/09\/met-police-marksman-who-shot-jean-charles-de-menezes-after-7-7-london-bombings-speaks-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Police marksman who shot Jean Charles de Menezes after 7\/7 London bombings speaks for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A police officer who shot an innocent man he suspected was a terrorist in the wake of the 7\/7 London bombings has spoken about the killing for the first time.<\/p>\n

Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old electrician, was killed a fortnight after suicide bombers targeted three Tube lines and a London bus on 7 July 2005, killing 52 people.<\/p>\n

Now one of the firearms officers who shot Mr de Menezes defended his actions, saying he was certain “we were going to die” if he did not act.<\/p>\n

Mr de Menezes, who was from Brazil, lived in an apartment block that had been linked to one of several suspects who had planned to target the capital’s transport network a second time on 21 July.<\/p>\n

The following day Mr de Menezes was followed by officers and shot seven times by two marksmen in a train carriage at Stockwell Tube station in south London.<\/p>\n

“Reliving it in this detail is painful,” the officer, known only as C12, said on Channel 4’s documentary Shoot To Kill: Terror On The Tube.<\/p>\n

“I want to make sure that people understand these decisions, although they’re taken quickly, they’re not taken lightly.<\/p>\n

“Because of his actions, what he did, the information we received, it left me with no other conclusion than I had to act or we were going to die.”<\/p>\n

The marksman claimed Mr de Menezes’ demeanour led him to believe the electrician was about to detonate a bomb.<\/p>\n

The way Mr De Menezes stood up had “triggered” something in his head, C12 claimed.<\/p>\n

“He knew who we were. He still continued on his forward momentum as I had my weapon up, pointing at his head,” the officer recalled.<\/p>\n

Read more: Jean Charles de Menezes’s family says ‘we will never get justice’<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“I remember the surveillance officer then in full body contact with him, and apparently what he was trying to do was pin his hands so that he couldn’t detonate.<\/p>\n

“I’m expecting an explosion at any moment, he’s gonna blow. We’re gonna die. But that’s the nub of it.<\/p>\n

“If I don’t do something now, we are all going to die.”<\/p>\n

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Two days after he was killed, Scotland Yard confirmed Mr de Menezes was not connected to the 21 July attacks.<\/p>\n

Dame Cressida Dick, who was promoted to Metropolitan Police commissioner in 2017, led the operation in which Mr de Menezes died.<\/p>\n

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A jury cleared her of any blame in his death but the Met was fined \u00a3175,000 with \u00a3385,000 costs after being found guilty of endangering the public.<\/p>\n

Shoot To Kill: Terror On The Tube will air on 10 and 11 November on Channel 4.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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