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New evidence emerges in Rainbow Warrior sabotage case

The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior lies on its side in Auckland harbour 10 July 1985, after being blown-up by French secret service agents during the night of 9 July.
The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior lies on its side in Auckland harbour 10 July 1985, after being blown-up by French secret service agents during the night of 9 July. © New Zealand Herald/AFP

A new book based on archives and previously unpublished testimonies sheds fresh light on the sinking of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior forty years ago in Auckland. It was bombed by the French DGSE spy service to protect the French state's nuclear tests in the Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia.

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