Pair seek damages over 9/11 arrests

The wife and brother of a pilot falsely accused of involvement in the September 11 terror attacks have begun a courtroom battle for damages.

Sonia Raissi, whose Algerian husband Lotfi was the first person accused of participating in the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, and Mohamed Raissi, are each seeking damages in excess of £150,000 in their High Court action against the Metropolitan Police.

Mrs Raissi, of Chiswick, west London, and her brother-in-law, of Heston, Hounslow, say their arrests by anti-terrorist police on September 21, 2001, were "unlawful" and that they were falsely imprisoned.

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