French bomber apologises for Rainbow Warrior 'murderous fiasco'
- 9 years ago
A retired French intelligence agent has apologised for planting explosives in a state-sponsored terror attack that sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand in 1985, killing a photographer.
Jean-Luc Kister said he and his colleagues never meant to kill anybody.
Kister said they just wanted to sink the ship and the death of Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira had plagued his conscience ever since.
Greenpeace planned to use the ship which was moored in Auckland Harbour to disrupt French nuclear tests in the Pacific 30 years ago.
30 years after state terrorism, French secret agent apologises for sinking the Rainbow Warrior http://t.co/OSYE3HFuP6 pic.twitter.com/rBj8DZEk3V— Jasper Teulings (@Patagorda) September 6, 2015
“I’m glad someone from that murderous fiasco apologised,” Bunny McDiarmid, Greenpeace New Zealand’s Executive Director, told Television New Zealand. “But it’s 30 years later, nobody was held to account for the murder of Fernando [Pereira].”
Jean-Luc Kister said he and his colleagues never meant to kill anybody.
Kister said they just wanted to sink the ship and the death of Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira had plagued his conscience ever since.
Greenpeace planned to use the ship which was moored in Auckland Harbour to disrupt French nuclear tests in the Pacific 30 years ago.
30 years after state terrorism, French secret agent apologises for sinking the Rainbow Warrior http://t.co/OSYE3HFuP6 pic.twitter.com/rBj8DZEk3V— Jasper Teulings (@Patagorda) September 6, 2015
“I’m glad someone from that murderous fiasco apologised,” Bunny McDiarmid, Greenpeace New Zealand’s Executive Director, told Television New Zealand. “But it’s 30 years later, nobody was held to account for the murder of Fernando [Pereira].”