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30 years later, French agent apologizes for bombing boat

A retired French secret service agent has apologized for planting the bombs which sank a Greenpeace ship 30 years ago, killing a photographer and causing an international incident that tarnished the image of France.

 

Jean-Luc Kister told Television New Zealand on Sunday that he and his colleagues never meant to kill anybody when they attached two bombs to the Rainbow Warrior on July 10, 1985, while the boat was moored in Auckland.

 

The boat was to travel to French Polynesia to protest French nuclear testing. The bombing killed 35-year-old Portuguese-born photographer Fernando Pereira, who drowned.

 

Kister said their intention was only to sink the boat, and the death has plagued his conscience ever since. He described the operation as a "big, big failure."

 


פרסום ראשון: 09.07.15, 07:41