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 The coroner's probe into the death of Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, who was mistaken for a terrorist and killed by the British police in London's subway, in 2005, should me resumed immediately. Amnesty International is calling for that to happen.
The human rights organization also wants for the inquest to be given a wide enough scope to ensure that critical information about the circumstances surrounding his death is made public.
In early December 2007 the coroner hearing the inquest will hold a pre-inquest hearing, to consider whether there is still a need for the inquest to go ahead. Amnesty International says that it considers it essential that it does.
Neither the investigation into the shooting carried out by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), nor the recently-concluded prosecution of the Office of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police under health and safety legislation, have enabled the members of the family of Jean Charles de Menezes to ask their own questions about how their relative, an unarmed young Brazilian man, came to be shot dead by officers of the Metropolitan Police on board a London Underground train in July 2005.
The family of a person who has died in circumstances such as these, Amnesty argues, is entitled, under international human rights law, to be kept involved in the investigation into the death. A coroner's inquest would allow the family of Jean Charles de Menezes to participate in the proceedings, as next-of-kin to the deceased - a participation which the health and safety prosecution, by its very nature, could not allow.
Moreover, says Amnesty, the jury in the coroner's inquest would be able to return not only a verdict on the cause of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, but also a narrative as to "how, when and where" the death occurred.
By contrast the jury in the recent trial was asked to decide only the relatively narrow question of the criminal liability of the Office of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police for an offense under health and safety legislation - an offense relating not directly to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, but to the risks posed to the health or safety of the public by the operation which led to his death.
The inquest may therefore be able to bring to light information about all of the circumstances of the death which did not emerge during the prosecution. It may be able to hear from key witnesses who were not called to give evidence at the trial, such as the officers who fired the fatal shots, and passengers who were in the train carriage at the time of the shooting.
Amnesty International states that it remains concerned that the Metropolitan Police initially sought to prevent the IPCC from conducting the investigation into the death of Menezes.
The fact that the Metropolitan Police retained control over the investigation at the crucial initial stage runs counter to the obligation under international human rights law for such an investigation to be carried out independently of those responsible for the shooting.
In the light of this concern, and others raised by the recently-published report of the IPCC investigation into the shooting, Amnesty International considers it vital both for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes and for the public at large that the events which led to his death should be the subject of the fullest possible independent public scrutiny. The coroner's inquest is one way of ensuring such scrutiny, and it should be allowed to proceed without delay.
In September 2006 the coroner hearing the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes agreed to a request from the Crown Prosecution Service to adjourn the inquest, pending the completion of the prosecution of the Office of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
Amnesty International opposed that adjournment. The organization considered that it would result in an unnecessary and disproportionate delay in the holding of the inquest, and would compound the distress, pain and suffering already experienced by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes.
Nevertheless the inquest was postponed. With the completion of the prosecution of the Office of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, the coroner hearing the inquest is now required, by the Coroners Act 1988, to consider whether to resume the inquest, "if in his opinion there is sufficient cause to do so".
The pre-inquest hearing at which this question will be considered is scheduled to open today, December 7.
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Why dont you start doing it with the hundreds of innocents, including children, killed yearly by your Legal Police and Your Death Squads....who are also policemen but not in uniforms ?????
Why are the investgigations going nowhere for the innocents killed by your police forces during the several SP and Rio Chaos ?
Even the SP Mayor officially admitted there were several (and not only one as in London) innocents killed....by your police forces.
It looks like that for Brazilians 1 of their citizen killed by a tragedy during a bombing, is far more important than hundreds of Brazilians killed...YEARLY....in Brazil...during difficult and special circumstances.
And of course your deaths squads AND police forces have TOTAL impunity.