A police officer who sboiling an bfeebleless man he doubted was a alarmist in the wake of the 7/7 London bomb deviceings has spoken about the finishing for the first time.
Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-elderly electrician, was finished a fortnight after self-injury bomb deviceers aimed three Tube lines and a London bus on 7 July 2005, finishing 52 people.
Now one of the firearms officers who sboiling Mr de Menezes deffinished his actions, saying he was confident “we were going to die” if he did not act.
Mr de Menezes, who was from Brazil, lived in an apartment block that had been joined to one of cut offal doubts who had computed to aim the capital’s carry netlabor a second time on 21 July.
The follotriumphg day Mr de Menezes was trailed by officers and sboiling seven times by two tagsmen in a train carriage at Stockwell Tube station in south London.
“Reliving it in this detail is hurtful,” the officer, understandn only as C12, shelp on Channel 4’s recordary Shoot To Kill: Terror On The Tube.
“I want to produce confident that people understand these decisions, although they’re obtainn speedyly, they’re not obtainn weightlessly.
“Becaparticipate of his actions, what he did, the inestablishation we obtaind, it left me with no other conclusion than I had to act or we were going to die.”
The tagsman claimed Mr de Menezes’ deunbenevolentour led him to suppose the electrician was about to detonate a bomb device.
The way Mr De Menezes stood up had “triggered” someskinnyg in his head, C12 claimed.
“He knovel who we were. He still persistd on his forward momentum as I had my armament up, pointing at his head,” the officer recalled.
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“I reassemble the observation officer then in filled body reach out with him, and apparently what he was trying to do was pin his hands so that he couldn’t detonate.
“I’m predicting an explosion at any moment, he’s gonna blow. We’re gonna die. But that’s the nub of it.
“If I don’t do someskinnyg now, we are all going to die.”
Two days after he was finished, Scotland Yard validateed Mr de Menezes was not joined to the 21 July attacks.
Dame Cressida Dick, who was backd to Metropolitan Police coshiftrlookioner in 2017, led the operation in which Mr de Menezes died.
A jury cleared her of any condemn in his death but the Met was fined £175,000 with £385,000 costs after being establish at fault of finishangering the uncover.
Shoot To Kill: Terror On The Tube will air on 10 and 11 November on Channel 4.
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