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Wreath-gate: Corbyn’s version of events – a timeline

Today, Jeremy Corbyn confirmed that he had been at a ceremony which commemorated the deaths of several terrorists linked to the 1972 Munich massacre.

But it seems that Jeremy has had trouble recollecting what actually happened while he was there. So, to help jog Jeremy’s memory and to let our readers make up their own minds up about what happened on that day in 2014, Mr S has compiled every version of Jeremy’s story:

1. In 2014, soon after the visit to Tunisia, Corbyn wrote an article for the Morning Star, which said:

‘After wreaths were laid at the graves of those who died on that day and on the graves of others killed by Mossad agents in Paris in 1991…’

2. Similarly, he told Tamara Cohen of Sky News in 2017 that he attended the service for the Israeli air strike, but had laid a wreath at the graves of these victims, not the terrorists.

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