The French Agent Who Bombed the Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior Apologizes After 30 Years

[Sunlei]

Source: TIME

The French secret-service agent who led an attack on a Greenpeace ship that killed photographer Fernando Pereira 30 years ago has apologized publicly for the first time.

Speaking to the New Zealand station TVNZ on Sunday, Jean-Luc Kister said now was the right time to apologize to Pereira and his family for what he said was an “accident.”

Two other agents who took part, Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur, were arrested in New Zealand two days after the attack and sentenced to 10 years in jail for manslaughter. They were transferred to French Polynesia as part of a settlement and released two years later.

France paid $8.2 million in damages to Greenpeace and in 1996 stopped the nuclear testing that the activist group protested.


Read more: http://time.com/4024122/jean-luc-kister-greenpeace-apology-rainbow-warrior-bomb/

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read in other stories, KGB claimed Green Peace was their covert operation

[burfman]

1. France has no shame when it came to the Green Peace.....

Just read the Wikipedia incident and see how much this stinks....

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior

some brief excerpts:

France initially denied responsibility, but two French agents were captured and charged with arson, conspiracy to commit arson, willful damage, and murder.

Prieur and Mafart pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment on 22 November 1985. France threatened an economic embargo of New Zealand's exports to the European Economic Community if the pair were not released.

As part of a plea bargain, the two agents pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to ten years in prison, but in fact spent just over two years confined to the French island of Hao before being freed by their government in breach of its treaty obligation

[Sunlei]

4. It stinks for Greenpeace even today with Russia attacking them. Russia gathering up all the Orcas &

other smaller whales and selling them on the global market.

Japan claiming "culture" when they slay dolphins with powerboat herding, and sell 50!! baby dolphins to places like Chinas new gigantic, Sea World mega complex.

All the countries, including the USA pile on our environments Heros and Global animal advocates and treat them like they're terrorists.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

12. Powerboat herding is really part of that ancient proud culture?

When did this come about?

[Sunlei]

6. They admitted they placed bombs on the ship and intended to sink it.

[marble falls]

2. Why is thirty years later "the right time to apologize" for murdering someone? Astounding...

It sounds more like a brag than an apology.

[Archae]

3. Here in the US commiting a murder makes a person a hero.

In the "Jay-zus told us to save babies" camp.

[RoccoR5955]

5. He should be in jail

Not apologizing and not in jail.

[rockfordfile]

7. they should

They should have been given the death penalty. These cowards murdered a person.

[Kelvin Mace]

8. "Accident"?

How the hell do you "accidentally " plant a bomb?

[Octafish]

9. When will Poppy Bush apologize to Ronnie Moffit and Orlando Letelier's families?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024521625#post8

[Sunlei]

10. Never. The Medusa will -finish- turning him into solid stone before he speaks a word of such things.

[Dont call me Shirley]

11. Can't he still be prosecuted for murder?