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The family of a Brazilian man shot by police who mistook him for a terrorist have rejected claims senior officers did not know within hours he was innocent.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Alan Given has supported claims by Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair that he was unaware a mistake had been made until the next day.
Given said he talked to staff at Sir Ian's private office on the day Jean Charles de Menezes was shot at Stockwell Tube and, as far as he knew, there was never any suggestion a mistake had been made.
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18 April 2007
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Kremlin: police over-reacted
The Kremlin yesterday admitted police had "over-reacted" at weekend opposition marches, where hundreds of people were beaten and arrested, but blamed the foreign press for "exaggerating" the events.
A march by hundreds of Other Russia protesters in Moscow on Saturday was broken up by a huge police presence while Garry Kasparov, the former chess champion, who helped lead the protest, was arrested for public order offences.
On Sunday, a few hundred protesters, and even passersby, were attacked with batons by riot police after deviating off an "approved" route during a march in St Petersburg.
Deputy spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Russia Today television channel: "Some overreaction really took place, really took place, but their main role was to ensure law and order on the streets."
However, Mr Peskov said the scale of the clashes had been blown out of proportion by foreign media.
The protest organisers said police used excessive force against people who were no threat to public order. One activist with the opposition Yabloko party showed her black eyes and broken nose after being beaten with a police truncheon in St Petersburg.
"I was standing on the curb, when an old woman fell and I went to help her up. At that moment, I was hit with a truncheon in my face," Olga Tsydilova said yesterday outside the St Petersburg hospital where she was being treated.
Meanwhile, the FSB, the successor to the KGB security service, said they had summoned Mr Kasparov for questioning over "extremism" following his arrest on Saturday.
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