L’affaire du Rainbow Warrior est une opération commanditée par le Ministre de la Défense français Charles Hernu, en 1985, avec l'autorisation explicite du Président de la République française François Mitterrand, selon le témoignage de Pierre Lacoste, patron de la DGSE, par laquelle les services secrets français sabordent le navire amiral de l'organisation écologiste Greenpeace, le Rainbow Warrior à quai en Nouvelle-Zélande paré à appareiller pour l'atoll de Mururoa pour protester contre les essais nucléaires français. Le naufrage fit une victime: Fernando Pereira, photographe, membre de l'équipage de Greenpeace.
Cet acte de violation de la souveraineté de l'état néo-zélandais fut à l'origine de tensions entre les deux pays et eu des impacts en termes de relations politiques et économiques.
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The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was an operation by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence services, the Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE), carried out on 10 July 1985. During the operation, two operatives sank the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, the Rainbow Warrior in the port of Auckland, New Zealand on its way to a protest against a planned French nuclear test in Moruroa. Fernando Pereira, a freelance Dutch photographer, of Portuguese origin, drowned on the sinking ship.
France initially denied responsibility, but two French agents were captured and charged with arson, conspiracy to commit arson, willful damage, and murder. As the truth came out, the scandal resulted in the resignation of the French Defence Minister Charles Hernu.
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.
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