Work in progress: The Last 60 Minutes of Jean Charles de Menezes

Final version of this producition will be presented here shortly. This is the original rough assembly (cut).

The visuals, the sounds, the people and the atmosphere are recreated in the same places and time of year where it happened three years ago on July 22, 2005.

Scenes were shot between July 14th and 18th 2008 in the streets where the drama originally unfolded.

Places covered by the film include Scotia Road, Upper Tulse Hill, Tulse Hill, Brixton Road, Stockwell Road, number 2 bus, Brixton Underground station and Stockwell Underground station.

All are the exact locations where events took place.

This documentary is not a thriller. It is an account of events and the recreation of an atmosphere.

The morning of 22/7/05 at 10:03 Jean Charles de Menezes was killed in a hail of bullets deep inside Stockwell underground in a mistaken anti-terrorist police operation which offered him no warning or chance of survival.

The manner of the death, with seven bullets pumped into his head simultaneously at point-blank range by two police marksmen shocked London, Britain and the world.

To such and extent, that the Operation Kratos which was divised by the British Police and the local security services to deal with suspected suicide bombers was never used again and is now under severe legal scrutiny.

It happened in South London. The area can be best described as the scene of a crime ready for forensic examination by the public. The story has never been told in images and sounds until today.

The last sixty minutes in the life of an innocent man caught up in a web of surveillance, pursuit and ultimately a death that he could never have imagined let alone be prepared for.

This short documentary is based on witness statements, chronology in official investigations and independent press reports.

On the third anniversary of his death this is our homage to Jean Charles de Menezes. If you live in London, visit his memorial next to Stockwell Underground station and set-up sponteneously by local people. Because the memorial couldn've been for you.
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The Action: Officers of the police and UK security services were dispatched to Scotia Road, in the Tulse Hill area of South London to carry out surveillance of a block of flats where it was believed suspected suicide bombers were hiding. A catalogue of errors stopped those officers and others to challenge de Menezes to check his identity as he came out of the block of flats. Instead, he was mistakenly identified as a suicide bomber. He was then followed for around an hour and eliminated without warning.

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[blackfootnawaho]

i dont understand, why did they not grab him on the way to the tube instead of inside the station? at a place where there are not alot of people they could have told him to get on the ground and there would not have been a reason to shoot at all. as i understand they shot him because they feared he would blow himself up.

[documentaryunit]

It has to do with the police and security forces being judge, jury and executioner. The 'due process of law' cease to exist. One step closer to a Police State. Fortunately, Mr Menezes death may have woken up a lot of people. Torture is also part of that wake up call.

[RTWXilef]

I hear something that anti-terror police could fire a lethal headshot without warning to a suspected suicide bomber

[documentaryunit]

Make sure you are not the suspected suicide bomber. The only certainty is that apart form a sudden moment of total fear the end will be quick as several bullets are pumped into your brain. Lead poisoning the call it.

[industrialfun]

Todays verdict? Not Unlawful killing. Perhaps eberybody will stop whining about it now. CDM's family will get a big bundle of cash which is what they wanted and we can all move on.

[documentaryunit]

People killed by the State have a strange habit of returning to life until the guilty are condemned. Menezes will fight back. This is not over.

[flybywir]

The Jean Charles de Menezes tragedy was certainly the result of an inept and hysterical operation by the Met Police. However one thing really puzzles me, HOW WAS IT LEGAL?......Consider the facts. Unarmed man,found guilty of nothing,acting normally, held down on a seat,a gun pushed up against his head and seven hollow point bullets fired into it. If you search the English language the sole applicable description is SUMMARY EXECUTION. Since when was this legal in the UK??..........

[fish5133]

excellent vid. Shows either the incompetance of professional surveillance cops to spot JC was brazilian not darker skinned OR it shows something far more sinister

[documentaryunit]

We agree with you. The original OPERATION KRATOS was thought out by arrogant policemen in high places - without public scrutiny. It precluded the danger of mistakes. So glaring and obvious they were that the method unravelled in the first outing. It should never have seen the light of day. In the end, the real terrorists were captured without a single shot being fired - but by another police force, more aware of the danger of arrogance.

[glaxev]

R.I.P JCM

It would be easy to have the firearms officers as the scapegoats, but overall the order came from above, who were they to know.

Thats why i suggest the metropolitan police should invest money in robocops^^