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...London anti-terror specialists shot Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, seven times in the head at close range after he boarded a London subway train on the morning of July 22, 2005. De Menezes, a Brazilian electrician, lived in an apartment block adjacent to a would-be terrorist who, the day before, had botched an effort to blow himself up on the London Tube. On July 22, as police continued their surveillance of the suspect's housing block, de Menezes left his apartment for work and unknowingly stepped into the middle of the manhunt. Thirty-four minutes later...
...will get the answer we need about how my cousin died," said Patricia da Silva Armani, a cousin of de Menezes who lives in London. Giovanni da Silva, de Menezes's brother, said that the three-year wait for the public inquest has been torturous. "Since they killed Jean Charles our mother has been depressed and very sick," he told the BBC at his home in Gonzaga, Brazil. "We just want this to end soon so we can have some relief." He and his mother will attend the inquest for one month, beginning in October...
...What They're Taxing in France: Jean-Louis Borloo, Minister for the Environment, said France will begin taxing nonrecyclable cutlery and plates to entice consumers to buy more eco-friendly products. The so-called picnic tax of 58¢ per lb. ($1.29 per kg), part of an effort to curtail waste, may be extended to cover other household items like washing machines, refrigerators and televisions. The nation has a similar system in place for cars, whereby heavily polluting vehicles pay steeper taxes...
...JCVD Directed by Mabrouk El Mechri. Written by Frederic Benudis and El Mechri. With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Francois Damiens, Zinedine Soualem. From Belgium...
...Public Enemy Number One, Part 1 Directed by Jean-Francois Richet. Screenplay by Abdel Raouf Dafri, from the book L'Instinct de mort by Jacques Mesrine. With Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Roy Dupuis. From France...