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sur Que nous apprend l'affaire du Rainbow Warrior ?


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(---.---.99.52) 15 août 2006 23:50

Les revirements dont parle l’article, lors du procès de 1985, semblent avoir été bien visibles pour le monde entier.

Voici un extrait d’une dépêche de la BBC du 3 novembre 1985, pendant le procès des faux « époux Turenge ».

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/3/newsid_2538000/ 2538099.stm

Agents plead guilty in Rainbow Warrior trial

Two French secret service agents have dramatically changed their pleas on charges relating to the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand.

A Greenpeace photographer, Fernando Pereira, died in the attack which sunk the vessel - the flagship of environmental group Greenpace - last July.

Today in the High Court in Auckland, Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur pleaded guilty to arson and manslaughter.

At an earlier hearing the agents had pleaded not guilty to charges of arson, conspiring to commit arson and murder.

New Zealand’s Solicitor General Paul Neazor, QC, told the court the Crown was prepared to accept a plea on the lesser charge of manslaughter.

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This is a process of law not some sort of haggling or selling prisoners

David Lange, NZ Prime Minister

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Mr Neazor said it could not be proved Mafart and Prieur were personally to blame for placing the explosive devices on the Rainbow Warrior, nor that they intended anyone should be killed or injured.

After their amended pleas were accepted, the case against Mafart and Prieur was concluded within 30 minutes.

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