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Jean de Menezes shot 8 times

"Police killed my cousin, they could kill anyone," says relative of Brazilian man shot in London

Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian man killed by police after being mistaken for a suicide bomber, was shot eight times at Stockwell Tube station on Friday, not five times as had previously been reported. The details emerged at the opening of an inquest into his death yesterday.

Mr De Menezes cousin, Alex Pereira, told BBC Breakfast thet the police "have to pay for that in many ways, because if they do not, they are going to kill many people, they are going to kill thousands of people. They killed my cousin, they could kill anyone."

Full article in the Guardian