Yara Aquino
Reporter - Agência Brasil

Brasília - On Sunday (24), the Brazilian Bar Association released a note condemning the assassination of the Brazilian citizen, Jean Charles de Menezes, by the English police. Jean Charles was killed, by mistake on Friday (21). They mixed him up with a possible practioner of the terrorist acts in the London subways last Friday.

In the note, the Bar Association points out that the death of the Brazilian "demonstrates the risks and the moral absurdities of a police state." The Brazilian organization criticizes the side effects of a state of permanent alert, in which "individual rights and guarantees are suspended. An environment of panic and general insecurity is created. The democratic legal state is violated."

Translation: David Silberstein