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Apology of 'pigs' rejected >From correspondents in Rio de Janeiro July 26, 2005 From: Agence France-Presse THE family of a Brazilian electrician shot dead by London police who mistook him for a suicide bombing suspect has rejected the apologies of British authorities and is considering filing a lawsuit against them, a family member said. "We cannot accept (the apologies)," Patricia Silva y Vivian Menezes, a cousin of deceased 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes, told Brazil's Globo News television from London. "They're pigs. "They shoot first and kill an innocent person then they say sorry." Ms Menezes, who lived with Mr Menezes in his London flat, said his immediate family was planning to sue the British Government for the electrician's wrongful death. Another cousin, Alex Alves Pereira, who shared the same flat, identified Mr Menezes at the morgue after he had been shot eight times in the head at Stockwell Underground station after being chased by plainclothes police. British Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday that Britain was "desperately sorry" for the death of the Brazilian, whom police mistook for a suspected suicide bomber and who had refused to obey instructions. "It's all over for me," the victim's father, Matosinho Otoni da Silva, 66, told the news program. "I hope the police officers will be punished because they killed an innocent person. I cannot forgive them at all." The mother, Maria Otoni, who was hospitalised with a nervous breakdown after she received the news, said her son had had a premonition all last week: "He was afraid something bad was going to happen to him," she said. Mr Menezes's home town of Gonzaga, in Brazil's south-eastern Minais Gerais state, held a funeral march and observed a minute of silence for him yesterday, bringing the city of 6000 to a virtual standstill. "Terrorism: means killing an innocent person," one of the signs held up by a mourner in the procession said. Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim urged Britain to launch an investigation into the killing after meeting British counterpart Jack Straw in London. "We expect a full investigation," Mr Amorim told BBC radio yesterday, adding that his Government was "shocked and perplexed" by the fatal shooting of Mr Menezes. "The investigation should be thorough and I had reassurances in that respect. Mr Menezes had been living legally in Britain for three years, according to his family. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
