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World Service,30 Mar 2006,22 mins

The shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes

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The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in July 2005 by Metropolitan Police officers in Stockwell, London. The incident came as London was on high alert after a failed attempt to bomb the London Underground on 21 July; two weeks after 52 people died in four separate central London suicide bombings. The programme looks at the training of the police who carry firearms.

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