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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Josh Halliday

Jean Charles de Menezes’s mother says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama about his killing

Maria and Matozinhos Otone de Menezes hold one another on the station platform
Maria and Matozinhos Otone de Menezes, the parents of Jean Charles, at the tube station where the shooting took place in 2005. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA

The mother of a man shot dead by police in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing.

Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by two police marksmen in Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005. De Menezes was wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in a failed bombing two weeks after the 7/7 attack in London, which killed 52 people.

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