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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Jessica Coates

Officer who shot Jean Charles de Menezes was convinced ‘we were going to die’

A police marksman who shot a man wrongly suspected of being a terrorist after the 7/7 London bombings said he was certain “we were going to die” if he did not act.

Jean Charles de Menezes was killed a fortnight after suicide bombers exploded devices on three Tube lines and a London bus on July 7 2005, killing 52 people.

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