Who was Jean Charles de Menezes? The man mistaken for a terrorist and shot dead by police in 2005

Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian kitchen porter living in London, was mistakenly shot and killed by armed police on July 22, 2005, just two weeks after the July 7 bombings. Despite reassurances of safety to his mother, he was targeted as a terrorist on his way to work on the Tube. The tragic incident led to international protests and a public apology from the then-Met Police commissioner, sparking one of the biggest crises in British policing history.

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