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August 20, 2005
Relatives: de Menezes Shot Several Times in the Back of the Head
The Sunday Times of London reported in its August 21, 2005 edition that: The day after [Brazilian electrician] Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by police at Stockwell Underground station [in London], his grieving relatives and one of his closest friends filed into a mortuary to identify his body. They found him covered in a thin sheet and his face, unmarked, was ghostly white.
Gesio de Avila, a friend and fellow worker, looked carefully over the body, confused by de Menezes' peaceful repose. Where were the wounds from the seven bullets to the head that killed him? Every bit of colour had left his face, but apart from that it was normal, de Avila said last week. There was a bandage on his head behind his ear and when I looked closer, I realized what had happened. He had been shot several times in the back of the head. It was like he had been killed by bandits. The Times said, "De Menezes' cousins, Alex and Alessandro Pereira, who were also at Greenwich mortuary in southeast London, were outraged by what they saw."
For more, see "Focus: Executed: Anatomy of a police killing."
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 20, 2005 07:40 PM
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