Home Politics Corbyn refuses to apologize for attendance at wreath-laying ceremony

LONDON — U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to apologize for attending a ceremony at which a wreath was laid in memory of those accused of a terror attack in Munich in 1972.

In an interview with Channel 4 News to be broadcast Tuesday, Corbyn said he had laid a wreath but it had been for the people that died in a 1985 Israeli attack on the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Tunis.

Photographs published by the Daily Mail on Saturday showed the Labour leader holding a wreath at the ceremony in Tunisia in 2014, near the graves of militant leaders implicated in the Munich attack in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed.

Corbyn admitted earlier this week that he was “present” when a wreath was laid to honor the men behind the Munich attack, but did not “think” he was “actually involved in it.”

Labour MP Luciana Berger called on Corbyn to say sorry for his presence at the ceremony in 2014, but when asked by Channel 4 if he would apologize, Corbyn said: “I’m not apologizing for being there at all.”

He added: “I was there when the wreaths were laid. That’s pretty obvious. There were many others there who were witness to that. I witnessed many other people laying many other wreaths.”


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