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The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a man who was wrongly suspected of being a terrorist and killed by a senior firearms officer almost two decades ago, is to be featured in a new documentary. The police marksman responsible for his death will speak out publicly for the first time on the Channel 4 program, Shoot To Kill: Terror On The Tube. Alison Pomeroy, the head of documentaries at the channel, expressed her hope that the marksman’s testimony would “help the British public understand… what became one of the biggest crises in British policing history”. She further stated that the interview would provide insight into “the complexity of the atmosphere in London that summer”.
Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian electrician, was pinned down and shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder by two police marksman who mistook him for a suicide bomber at Stockwell Underground station in south London on 22 July 2005, following the July 7 bombings in which four suicide bombers killed 52 people. The day before Mr de Menezes was killed by police, would-be suicide bombers targeted the London transport network again, but their devices failed to explode. Scotland Yard confirmed Mr de Menezes was not connected to the attacks the day after his death.
The documentary will explore the marksman’s perception of the role of police as ‘goodies vs baddies’ and the pressure of being at the forefront of one of the most contentious moments in the history of British policing. In 2006, the Crown Prosecution Service ruled that no police officers should be prosecuted for Mr de Menezes’ killing. Still, the Metropolitan Police force was fined £175,000 for endangering the public, along with £385,000 in costs.
The marksman remained anonymous until the broadcast of this documentary, which will air on November 10th and 11th. It is expected to provide a stark reminder of the 2005 tragedy and send a clear message of the grave consequences of police errors
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