The Lockerbie disaster was Europe’s worst terrorist outrage, but was it also Britain’s biggest miscarriage of justice? This film investigates the case against Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and finds evidence to suggest he may have been wrongly accused.
The Lockerbie disaster was Europe’s worst terrorist outrage – more civilians died than in any other attack before 9/11. It has also become the most infamous. The events of that night, the painstaking police forensic investigation that followed, the identification of al-Megrahi and Libya as the likely culprits, his eventual trial and conviction in Holland, the overwhelming sense of relief that justice had been done felt by many relatives of the victims, and the controversy surrounding his subsequent return to Libya on compassionate grounds – all of these things have been the subject of intense scrutiny over the years.
Duration: | 47:43 |
Language: | EN |
Resolution max: | 720p |
Video Source: | YouTube |
Provided by: | Al Jazeera English |
Published on: | 2012-02-29 |
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Category: | Education & Learning History People Politics Violence & War |
Topic: | Lockerbie |