Disney+ series revisits killing of Brazilian man wrongly identified as a terrorist by Met police officers in 2005 The mother of a man shot dead by police in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing Would-be suicide bombers had targeted the London Underground on 21 July but their devices failed to explode. De Menezes, a 27-year-old Brazilian electrician, was mistaken for one of the suspects because they were linked to the same block of flats. Read moreNo officers were ever prosecuted for the killing but the Metropolitan police was fined for breaching health and safety laws The officer in charge of the botched operation was Cressida Dick who became Metropolitan police commissioner in 2017 The fatal shooting is the subject of a new four-part Disney+ drama starring Line of Duty’s Daniel Mays and Being Human’s Russell Tovey recalled the moment she learned of her son’s death nearly 20 years ago “I was not expecting that moment,” she said “It was terrible and then I started to shake Of the new series, Suspect: the Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, she said: “In my opinion, I think everyone should watch it.” Jeff Pope, the writer and executive director of the drama, said De Menezes’s mother had felt ill for three days after watching the show. He said: “I genuinely believe from being in the room that day with her, they’ve been waiting 20 years for this. I honestly think that. It’s just eaten away at them.” Pope added: “Lessons have already been learned but we needed that 20 years ago. His family needed that 20 years ago. There’s such an appetite for audiences in the UK for this type of piece. I just think we like to get angry. We don’t like being told something that we know or sense doesn’t seem right.” Kwadjo Dajan, a Bafta-winning producer who worked on the show, highlighted the power of television drama to inform and enrage audiences, citing the success of ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Netflix’s Adolescence. “I think drama makes it more relatable, you can feel the emotions, you can feel what happened. I think it gets under your skin in a way that you can put yourself in that position. It’s one thing to read and learn about facts, but it’s another to actually see it and feel it and experience it and I think that’s the power of drama.” Russell Tovey, who plays a deputy assistant Met commissioner, added: “Drama has the ability to penetrate into everybody’s living room and that is what we have to keep doing.” A Metropolitan police spokesperson said: “The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes is a matter of very deep regret to the Metropolitan police service. Our thoughts remain with his family and we reiterate our apology to them.” To analyze the availability of the Yellow Fever (YF) vaccine at Primary Health Care (PHC) services located in areas with vaccine recommendation in Brazil between two different periods. Secondary data from the Program for Improving Access and Quality in PHC, with 13,666 services in 2013-14, and 19,125 in 2017-18, were used. A structured questionnaire was used for the data collection. Pearson’s chi-square and thematic cartographic maps were used to analyze the frequency of the YF vaccine, and Poisson regression with robust variances was used to analyze the associated factors. The overall frequency of PHC facilities with YF vaccine always available increased from 87.0% (CI 95%; 86.4-87.5) in 2013-14 to 89.7% (CI 95%; 89.2-90.1) in 2017-18. Facilities located in the South, Southeast, Midwest and Northern regions and in non-state capitals, as well as centers that had adequate facilities for vaccination actions, as well as an adey -50quate cold chain network, showed a greater prevalence of YF vaccine always available. The frequency of a steady supply of YF vaccine available at PHC facilities, located in Areas with Routine Vaccination Recommendations, increased between 2013-14 and 2017-18. Geographical and structural characteristics related to vaccine actions at PHC facilities influenced access. The effective supply chain networks for the YF vaccine, together with adequate services at PHC facilities are essential to ensuring that the YF vaccine is always available. Volume 3 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fitd.2022.866554 Objectives: To analyze the availability of the Yellow Fever (YF) vaccine at Primary Health Care (PHC) services located in areas with vaccine recommendation in Brazil between two different periods Methods: Secondary data from the Program for Improving Access and Quality in PHC A structured questionnaire was used for the data collection Pearson’s chi-square and thematic cartographic maps were used to analyze the frequency of the YF vaccine and Poisson regression with robust variances was used to analyze the associated factors Results: The overall frequency of PHC facilities with YF vaccine always available increased from 87.0% (CI 95%; 86.4-87.5) in 2013-14 to 89.7% (CI 95%; 89.2-90.1) in 2017-18 Midwest and Northern regions and in non-state capitals as well as centers that had adequate facilities for vaccination actions as well as an adey -50quate cold chain network showed a greater prevalence of YF vaccine always available Conclusion: The frequency of a steady supply of YF vaccine available at PHC facilities located in Areas with Routine Vaccination Recommendations Geographical and structural characteristics related to vaccine actions at PHC facilities influenced access The effective supply chain networks for the YF vaccine together with adequate services at PHC facilities are essential to ensuring that the YF vaccine is always available In addition to the shortcomings in the supply of the vaccines, recognized in many countries, problems with continued access can affect the day-to-day of the health services that should consistently offer it as part of the immunization program supply chain. In this regard, the lack of vaccines, when individuals seek them out, has been repeatedly identified as one of the main causes of missed opportunities in vaccination (6, 7) Considering this context and the recommendations for assessing the distribution of YF vaccines (3) the objective of this study was to analyze the availability of the YF vaccine at PHC facilities located in ARVR in Brazil This was a study that used secondary data from a cross-sectional survey applied to the professionals responsible for the PHC facilities that participated in the second and third cycles of the Program for Improving Access and Quality in Primary Health Care (PIAQ-PHC) The PIAQ-PHC is a financial incentive program of the Brazilian Ministry of Health that aims to improve access and quality of PHC in the context of the National Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS) The original data totaled 24,499 PHC services evaluated in 2013-14 and 30,346 was considered: services located in the ARVR that offered vaccinations regularly 13,666 PHC facilities from the second cycle and 19,125 from the third were studied corresponding to approximately 45.0% and 78.0% of the total Brazilian PHC facilities The exclusion of services did not represent losses for this study We selected all vaccination services that should mandatorily offer the YF vaccine in municipalities that adhered to the Program The dependent variable was “YF vaccine always available” (Yes/No), which means that when a person seeks the service to receive the vaccine, the vaccine is always available. The independent variables, chosen on the basis of previous studies and for theoretical reasons (7, 9, 13) the 26 Brazilian States and the Federal District Capital and the country’s five Regions [North and Midwest]); the adequacy of the PHC facility services for vaccination actions (Yes/No) and adequate cold chain network (Yes/No) “Adequate facilities for vaccination actions” were defined as a PHC facility with adequate capacity specifically for this purpose “Adequate cold chain network” was assumed when the PHC facility had a vaccination room exclusively for vaccination actions exclusive refrigerators and thermal vaccine boxes for vaccines The analyses were performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software the geographical characteristics and those related to the facilities and functioning of the PHC services were analyzed considering absolute and relative frequencies the frequency of “YF vaccine always available” was analyzed considering the 95% confidence intervals (CI) and Pearson’s chi-square test the frequency of “YF vaccine always available” in the municipalities were analyzed using Choropleth Thematic maps The frequency was calculated considering the number of PHC facilities responding “Yes” to “YF vaccine always available” over the number of services studied multiplied by 100 Poisson regression models were used to analyze possible differences in the availability of the vaccine between the periods 2013-14 and 2017-18 using a multivariate Poisson regression with robust variances the analyze was controlled by geographic variables and those related to the structure and functioning of the services considering those with p-value <0.05 in Pearson’s chi-square The level of statistical significance was set at 5% (p <0.05) for all analyzes Table 1 Geographic and structural characteristics of the Primary Health Care facilities studied in 2013-14 and 2017-18 Table 2 Analysis of the of the availability of the Yellow Fever vaccine at Primary Health Care facilities in the second and third cycles of external evaluations of the Program for Improving Access and Quality in Primary Health Care according to geographic and structural variables related to vaccine actions 2013-2014 (n = 13666) and 2017-2018 (n = 19125) The frequency distribution of the available on demand YF vaccine always available at PHC facilities across the country, during both periods, is presented in Figure 1 The maps stand for the spatial differences for the availability of the YF vaccine there was a greater proportion of municipalities having dark tones when compared to 2013-14 Figure 1 – Geographical distribution of the Yellow Fever vaccine (always available) at primary health care facilities located in Areas with Routine Vaccination Recommendations in Brazil between the periods 2013-14 (A) and 2017-18 (B) Two different regression models were considered for the analysis of the availability of the YF vaccine (Table 3) The basic model (model 1) considered only the variable “period” (2017-18 and 2013-14) In the complete model (model 2) all independent variables were included in the analysis including the variable “period” PHC facilities had a greater frequency of YF vaccine always available (PR = 1.027; 95%CI: 1.020-1.035) After adjusting for all independent variables the prevalence ratio for the most recent period dropped from 1.027 to 1.025 but maintained statistical significance (p<0.001) Midwest and North regions and in non-state capitals as well as services that had adequate facilities for vaccination actions demonstrated a greater prevalence of YF vaccine always available Table 3 Poisson regression analysis for the Yellow Fever vaccine (always available) at primary health care facilities located in Areas with Routine Vaccination Recommendations in Brazil between the periods 2013-14 and 2017-18 The proportion of PHC facilities located in the ARVR with YF vaccine always available increased from 2013-14 to 2017-18 we can assume that the number of vaccine doses were more sufficient for the population in the second studied period Geographical aspects and an adequate cold chain network and an adequate capacity for facilities to engage in vaccination actions influenced YF vaccine availability In addition to geographic and structural factors, the increase in the availability of the YF vaccine may have been related to the emergence of an YF outbreak in Brazil, when the acquisition of YF vaccine by Brazilian Minister of Health was expanded (8, 14). The availability of the YF vaccine was greater in non-capital cities, reinforcing that the distribution of this vaccine to the PHC facilities did not occur equally (11) considering the samples of facilities studied that the number of PHC facilities in the ARVR increased between the studied periods reflecting the decision for expansion by the National Immunization Program the frequency of availability of the YF vaccine at PHC facilities increased relatively less than the number of services in the ARVR between the two study periods it is essential to expand the availability of the YF vaccine in PHC facilities our findings suggest that the effective supply chain networks for YF vaccine combined with the adequate capacity of PHC facilities and services are essential to ensuring their availability in order to achieve universal access to immunoprevention and to improve vaccine coverage indicators In view of the last outbreak of YF in Brazil consideration should be directed at the factors related to the physical capacity of PHC facilities and services throughout Brazil targeting actions aimed at maintaining optimal vaccination coverage against the disease the same factors that are related to YF vaccine availability may also be implicated in the risk of resurgence of other preventable diseases in the country Studies that consider factors possibly related to vaccine availability at the central levels of distribution and logistics networks are recommended it was possible to assess and compare the availability of YF vaccine at PHC facilities from the five regions of Brazil including the impossibility of proving causal inferences since the data were collected over a single moment Another limitation was related to the lack of evaluation of PHC facilities along remote riverbeds in the Amazon rainforest region the National Immunization Program in Brazil expanded the recommendation of vaccination against YF to the entire national territory This expansion occurred in response to a growing number of cases of the disease which alerted to the reemergence of urban YF in the country probably related to regional differences in investments in the health sector need to be the focus of public policy decision makers Publicly available datasets were analyzed in this study. 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an outdoor stairway decorated with statues of the prophets; and seven chapels illustrating the Stations of the Cross in which the polychrome sculptures by Aleijadinho are masterpieces of a highly original Construit pendant la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle se compose d’une église au somptueux décor intérieur rococo d’inspiration italienne d’un escalier en terrasse décoré de statues de prophètes et de sept chapelles abritant un chemin de croix où les groupes polychromes sculptés par l’Aleijadinho sont le chef-d’œuvre d’un art baroque original شُيّد المعبد الذي يقع في ميناس جيراييس، جنوب بيلو أوريزونتي، إبّان النصف الثاني من القرن الثامن عشر، وهو يتألف من كنيسة تتميّز بتصميمها الداخلي الفخم وبزخرفتها المثقلة من النفحة الإيطالية، وكذلك من سلّم خارجي مزيّن بتماثيل الرسل ومن سبعة معابد تجسّد درب الصليب وحيث المنحوتات المتعددة الألوان التي أنجزها أليجادينيو تشكّل تحفة من الفن الباروكي الأصلي والمؤثر والمعبّر للغاية 孔戈尼亚斯耶稣圣殿位于贝洛奥里藏特(Belo Horizonte)南部的米耐斯格莱斯(Minais Gerais)，建于18世纪下半叶。这个圣殿由多个部分组成：一个受意大利影响采用洛可可风格进行内部装饰的教堂、饰以先知雕像的室外楼梯，以及七座小教堂，在这些小教堂里展示有耶稣受难像，亚历昂德里诺(Aleijadinho)创作这些多彩雕像表现出非常新颖、生动和富有特色的巴洛克艺术风格。 в штате Минас-Жераис к югу от Белу-Оризонте состоит из церкви с роскошным интерьером в стиле рококо посвященных остановкам на пути к месту распятия Христа Их многоцветные скульптуры работы Алейжадинью являются яркими примерами оригинальных экспрессивных форм искусства барокко Construido en la segunda mitad del siglo XVII este santuario está situado en el Estado de Minas Gerais Consta de una iglesia con una suntuosa decoración interior al estilo rococó italiano una escalinata ornada con estatuas de profetas y siete capillas de un vía crucis con grupos escultóricos polícromos del Aleijadinho Standing high on a platform reached by a slightly curved divided staircase carrying on its parapets statues of the twelve prophets in soapstone (pedra sabão) the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Congonhas is approached via a ramped forecourt between six chapels marking Stations of the Cross (the Passos) Dating from the second half of the 18th century the church with its magnificent Italian rococo interior is a masterpiece of the Baroque style reflecting in its architecture and ornamentation the transition period in which it was built The soapstone statues together with the polychrome wooden sculptures depicting scenes of Christ’s Passion housed in the chapels stand as a crowning achievement of the creative genius of Francisco Antônio Lisboa who bequeathed to humanity a truly impressive body of work Criterion (i): The architectural and sculptural complex of the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matozinhos represents a singular artistic achievement reflecting the apex of Christian art in Latin America a thoroughly original and expressive work of the Baroque style transported to the tropics Criterion (iv): The Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matozinhos in Congonhas marks a crossroads in the evolution of mid-17th century religious architecture in Portuguese America slightly recessed towers and innovative rococo style façade which converge to form an important example of Baroque art in Latin America The Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Congonhas remains in good condition The material whole continues to express the full significance of the values attributed to the cultural property representing a unique artistic achievement and outstanding example of 18th century Brazilian architecture Despite the changes brought on by the urban growth of Congonhas the Sanctuary remains intact and survives to this day as a religious icon of the region The architectural and sculptural complex of the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Matozinhos in Congonhas has maintained its intrinsic values thanks to the effective conservation of its constituent elements including: the church of Bom Jesus decorated with soapstone sculptures of the prophets; and the chapels marking the stations of the Cross with expressive sculptural groups representing the Passion of Christ Despite the changes brought on by Congonhas’ urban growth the Sanctuary remains intact and continues to stand as a focus for pilgrimage throughout the region Since the Sanctuary’s federal designation in 1939 as an historical site officially recognized through its registration on UNESCO’s World Heritage List the National Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional – IPHAN) has worked assiduously to protect and conserve the location with a view to preserving the cultural property’s significance and the attendant values attributed to it The Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matozinhos in Congonhas was designated a federal heritage site by IPHAN on September 8 The votive offering room in the Sanctuary’s interior where the faithful deposit objects as thanks for the blessings obtained through Our Father Bom Jesus’s divine intercession was designated a federal heritage site by IPHAN on January 29 Construction is underway on a space designed to value the architectural and landscaping complex of the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matozinhos in Congonhas and house the Baroque and Stonework Studies Reference Center (Centro de Referência do Barroco e Estudos da Pedra) The project is an initiative of IPHAN in partnership with the Congonhas Municipal Government and the UNESCO Brazil Office Proposals have been put forward to expand the protected area around the site to include not just the immediate surrounding areas but a substantial perimeter encompassing the Architectural and Urban Complex of the city of Congonhas which has progressively become a center for religious pilgrimage due principally to the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matozinhos IPHAN has implemented a series of measures in partnership with the Monumenta Program and the Congonhas Municipal Government in an effort to reclaim and value the heritage monuments located in the Architectural Complex The Monumenta Program is an urban cultural heritage reclamation program operated by the Ministry of Culture and funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) through which substantial financial investments have been made to enhance the capacity of the municipal government to manage local cultural properties and reclaim significant historical spaces and buildings throughout the city The municipal government is currently in the process of approving the designation of the Serra de Santo Antônio as a heritage site with a view to reinforcing the protection of this critical element of the Congonhas cultural landscape sets out rules and guidelines for the use and occupation of areas around the municipality’s historical monuments New construction projects in the municipality are subject to joint reviews by IPHAN’s Technical Office in Congonhas and the Municipal Government a measure intended to mitigate the degradation of the areas around the Sanctuary’s perimeter The key challenge identified in the process is the need to adopt a management approach for the historic center centered on fostering the site’s integration with the surrounding urban landscape through a process of active inclusion of the various communities The dates displayed for an article provide information on when various publication milestones were reached at the journal that has published the article activities on preceding journals at which the article was previously under consideration are not shown (for instance submission FitoterapiaCitation Excerpt :Tabernaemontana corymbosa Roxburgh ex Wallich belonging to the Apocynaceae family and distributed in tropical and subtropical regions is considered as an ethnic medicine in China [10] A number of pharmacological investigations have revealed that monoterpene indole alkaloids (MIAs) are the important constituents of T some of these alkaloids exhibit a wide range of pharmacological effects including antitumor [13–16] antimicrobial [17,18] and antioxidant [19] activities the background of intriguing chemical profiles and traditional use of T corymbosa inspired us to further analysis its chemical component Scientia HorticulturaeCitation Excerpt :Meanwhile these metabolites are the precursor not only for the synthesis of aromatic amino acids but also for many secondary metabolites with diverse physiological roles in I Indole compounds are a class of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds and most of them have biological activities (Stowe et al Our results showed that nitrogen levels significantly influence the abundance of indole compounds All content on this site: Copyright © 2025 Elsevier B.V. Ancient DNA reveals rapid human colonization of South America 14,000 years ago Rock formation in the municipality of Matozinhos When the girl who would later become known as Luzia lived in a cave in what is now the town of Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, some 11,000 years ago, she could never have imagined that in the twenty-first century, her appearance and ancestry would be the source of intrigue and debate among scientists (see article) Genetic sequencing of her compatriots and contemporaries—but not Luzia herself—suggests that the large lips and broad nose features typically associated with the humans that first occupied the Americas she was not African,” says geneticist Tábita Hünemeier from the Institute of Biosciences at the University of São Paulo (IB-USP) “The genetic data shows that the ancestry of the people in Lagoa Santa is 100% Amerindian with the possible exception of one individual 3% of whose genome originates from another population,” says archaeologist André Strauss from the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at USP He and Hünemeier are coauthors of a study published in the journal Cell and he is named on another in Science which establish a new chapter in the story of how the Americas were colonized The people of Lagoa Santa have a great deal of information to share The findings surprised Brazilian archaeologists, since Luzia’s people were the basis for the popular theory proposed 30 years ago by bioanthropologist Walter Neves, recently retired from IB-USP, on how the Americas were settled (see Pesquisa FAPESP issue no. 195) Neves measured skulls collected in the region observing that they were different from those found elsewhere He proposed that the population was descended from a first wave of migrants with physical characteristics similar to current Australians and Africans and that they left no descendants of their own reconstructed Luzia’s face in the 1990s The indigenous peoples who later became typical of the continent more East Asian in appearance: with straight According to Brazilian anthropologist Mark Hubbe this theory is not necessarily disputed by the new studies “The Lagoa Santa morphology is not highly specific—it is similar to late Pleistocene groups and continues in populations of African origin,” he says “Although the settlement of North America resulted from a single demographic expansion Neves’s model is still applicable in South America which has undergone a more complex process.” The sequencing was performed by German biochemist Johannes Krause who is also a coauthor of the Cell article and currently directs the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History we didn’t have much success,” recalls Strauss But then other researchers demonstrated that the petrous bone The problem is that removing this dense piece of bone is a destructive process and any damage to an important specimen like Luzia would be unacceptable Strauss’s group minimized the risk by generating high-definition three-dimensional images The study examined the ancient DNA of 49 individuals from 16 locations in Central and South America (seven from Lapa do Santo and eight from three other locations in Brazil) and proposes a change to the Neves model is questioned in the study published in Cell this month—coordinated by Reich but it has not been possible to estimate what the Clovis people looked like “We only have the skullcap of one young man from Anzick,” says IB-USP archaeologist Mercedes Okumura who did not participate in the studies and is the current coordinator of the laboratory set up by Walter Neves More skulls and skeletons are needed to get a solid idea of what the Clovis population looked like British forensic reconstruction specialist Caroline Wilkinson has proposed a new physiognomy in partnership with Strauss based on the scanned skull and the newly discovered absence of Australo-Melanesian ancestry A very similar story regarding the colonization of South America is described in a paper published in the journal Science Based on DNA extracted from 15 skeletons found in locations ranging from Alaska to Patagonia it is clear that human populations spread rapidly throughout South America as soon as they passed the glacial areas of North America more than 14,000 years ago The speed of their dispersal is evident thanks to DNA from five skeletons collected in Lagoa Santa by Danish scientist Peter Lund in the nineteenth century The bones were found in the Sumidouro cave and kept in the Natural History Museum of Denmark—the same collection that Neves examined and which inspired his model The genome of these skeletons is very similar to that of the mummy from Spirit Cave a contemporary of the oldest Lagoa Santa specimen “The two articles agree on the rapid expansion and likely second wave of migration to South America,” summarizes Mexican geneticist Víctor Moreno-Mayar a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Geogenetics in Copenhagen “A population established in Mesoamerica also contributed by moving both north and south around 8,000 years ago,” he adds noting that the outcome is different to that seen with the other group He explains that the classic model describes a movement from north to south where people colonized each location and then stayed there But the reality seems to have been less straightforward “This occupation process probably took place along the Pacific coast giving rise to both the people who occupied Monte Verde [archaeological site in Chile] and the people of Lagoa Santa,” says geneticist Fabrício Santos from the Federal University of Minas Gerais “They were settling a continent with no human competitors.” Caroline Wilkinson / John Moores University Santos emphasizes the historical importance of analyzing the material collected by Lund “Today we know that all these ancient peoples in the Americas shared very similar morphologies with few Mongolian traits,” he says all the analyzed Paleoamericans—the term used for the oldest inhabitants of the continent which had a distinct appearance from subsequent peoples—are genetically more similar to present-day indigenous populations than any other past or present human group The DNA of one of the individuals from the Sumidouro cave contained segments similar to those found in populations of Australia and Asia—the population Y described by Reich in 2015 It is still unclear what the finding means since nothing similar was identified in the samples from North America through which the populations would have migrated there is no link between the cranial morphology of Luzia’s people and population Y,” says Strauss An important aspect in both studies was the combined use of statistics and bioanthropology—traditionally incongruous areas Mercedes Okumura reinforces the importance of an interdisciplinary approach: “Genomic analysis of ancient DNA opens a window to something that was purely science fiction just 20 years ago but the results need to be interpreted in light of what we already know such as archaeology and morphology studies.” According to Okumura it is normal for different sources to provide sometimes discordant evidence The challenge is to discover how the pieces fit together in order to elucidate the full history of these peoples Scientific articles POSTH, C. et al. 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Early human dispersals within the Americas © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved Shelagh Fogarty is Leading Britain's Conversation The mother of a man shot dead in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by two police marksmen in Stockwell underground station on July 22 2005 Two weeks after the 7/7 London bombings which killed 52 people Mr de Menezes was wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in another failed bombing attempt the previous day Would-be suicide bombers had targeted the transport network on July 21 was mistaken for one of the suspects because they were linked to the same block of flats Now, a drama starring Line of Duty's Daniel Mays and Being Human's Russell Tovey explores the days following the 7/7 bombings and police investigations leading up to Mr de Menezes' death Read More: Freddie Flintoff shares footage of horror Top Gear crash for the first time ahead of 'unprecedented' new documentary Read More: Tories call for ban on recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ No officers were ever prosecuted for the killing but the Met was fined for breaching health and safety laws who became Metropolitan Police commissioner in 2017 led the operation in which Mr de Menezes died A Met Police spokesperson said: “The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes is a matter of very deep regret to the Metropolitan Police Service “Our thoughts remain with his family and we reiterate our apology to them.” Ahead of the release of Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on Disney+ Maria de Menezes said: "In my opinion who flew to London ahead of the release of the four-part series on April 30 shared the moment she found out about her son's death "I was not expecting that moment," she said "It was terrible and then I started to shake writer and executive producer Jeff Pope told the audience that Mrs de Menezes said she watched the show and felt ill for three days He said: "I genuinely believe from being in the room that day with her they've been waiting 20 years for this "We spent many hours talking about their lives and then we got onto the more painful stuff and they were very open and honest all the way through." Mr Pope added: "Lessons have already been learned but we needed that 20 years ago "There's such an appetite for audiences in the UK for this type of piece We don't like being told something that we know or sense doesn't seem right." said it was an "honour" to help set the record straight about the killing He said: "It was a huge responsibility but also a huge honour to tell this story of this man "I'm so honoured to feel like I could sort of help set the record straight." He added: "I think it's very clear that Jean Charles was an innocent man and I hope the audience takes home that forever and also that they learn to question everything that they are told "We are living in difficult times with social media and we just have to question and be so careful with social media and what we are told." Producer Kwadjo Dajan highlighted the power of drama to make an impact and drew comparisons with ITV's Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Netflix's new hit Adolescence He said: "I think drama makes it more relatable "I think it gets under your skin in a way that you can put yourself in that position "It's one thing to read and learn about facts but it's another to actually see it and feel it and experience it and I think that's the power of drama." who plays a deputy assistant Met commissioner added: "Drama has the ability to penetrate into everybody's living room and that is what we have to keep doing." the family lost a human rights challenge over the decision not to charge any police officer over the fatal shooting A spokesperson for the Met police said: "The circumstances around his death which came at a time of unprecedented terrorist threat to London have been subject to numerous public inquiries including two separate reports by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (now the IOPC) which examined all of the evidence surrounding his death and the actions of officers in the aftermath "The recommendations made by the IPCC were implemented immediately following these reports and in the 19 years since this tragic incident we continue to proactively improve our processes and policies wherever possible to keep our communities safe "No officer sets out on duty intent on ending a life Our sole purpose is the complete opposite - the protection and preservation of life - and we have taken extensive action to address the causes of this tragedy." See more More Latest News See more Latest News See more The News Explained See more Royals See more Highlights & Opinion See more More Topics A Praia de Matosinhos é uma praia urbana que oferece aos seus banhistas um imenso areal onde se pode contar com espaço para as mais diversas atividades dentro e fora de água.Das suas infraestruturas entre bares e sanitários.Também a procura das suas águas pelos praticantes de surf e bodyboard é uma constante em dias de mar mais agitado.É uma das mais destacadas praias da Costa Verde Facilidade de estacionamento: Tem parque de estacionamento Localização e acessos: Matosinhos Serviços de apoio disponíveis: acesso a deficientes instalações sanitárias (2) - Praia com condições favoráveis à prática de surf A submissão deste formulário implica os consentimentos infra e a aceitação dos nossos termos e condições no que diz respeito a dados pessoais. 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