Daily Mail

Holding the wreath. Copying prayers. Pictures that make a mockery of Labour leader who says: I was present, but I don’t think I was involved

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JEREMY CORBYN yesterday admitted being at a 2014 ceremony for Tunisian ‘martyrs’, but added: ‘I don’t think I was actually involved in it.’ The Mail revealed that the men honoured were linked to the Munich massacre in which 11 Israelis were killed. Mr Corbyn has denied commemorat­ing the terrorists but pictures of the event show him standing at the foot of their graves. Last night Labour said he had not laid a wreath on the graves of those linked to the massacre. 1 Mr Corbyn is seen posing with a wreath under a distinctiv­e red canopy as other politician­s look on. This canopy runs alongside the graves of Salah Khalaf, Hayel Abdel-Hamid, Fakhri al-Omari and Atef Bseiso, three of whom have been linked to Black September, the group behind the 1972 atrocity at the Munich Olympic Games.

2 Mr Corbyn appears to be adjusting the wreath, which is being held by Salman El Herfi, the Palestinia­n ambassador in Tunisia. He is still standing by the graves of the men linked to the terror attack. 3 Mr Corbyn raises his hands in what appears to be an Islamic prayer position as he stands beside other politician­s. A source said he was not praying but ‘copying the others out of respect’. 4 Mr Corbyn looks at a plaque which honours Khalaf, al-Omari and Abdel-Hamid. It describes them as ‘martyrs’ who were assassinat­ed in 1991. A wreath that looks very similar to the one Mr Corbyn was holding in the earlier two photograph­s is seen beside the plaque, circled.

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