The truth about the bombers

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Wellington, New Zealand

A New Zealand court ruled last week that state television could broadcast footage of the interrogation of two French intelligence agents who blew up a Greenpeace boat in 1985. Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur initially pleaded not guilty to setting a bomb on the Rainbow Warrior, which was docked in New Zealand in preparation for a protest against French nuclear testing in the South Pacific. But under questioning, they changed their pleas to guilty. They served only a year in prison before being sent back to France, where they were welcomed as heroes. The court said the people had a right to know what happened in the interrogation.

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