Plan to pressure N.Z.
NZPA-Reuter Paris France’s Right-wing Opposition will put pressure on New Zealand to free two jailed French agents if it wins next month’s elections, says a former French President Mr Valery Giscard d’Estaing. Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur were jailed # for 10 years in November
for their part in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior.
Speaking in a radio interview yesterday, Mr Giscard said that “maybe France was in the wrong” in the affair but the consequences should not have to be borne by two officers obeying orders.
“The next Government will act with the greatest
firmness to obtain their liberation,” he said. Their fate would be “at the centre” of relations with New Zealand.
Mr Giscard, leader of the Centre-Right U;D.F. Party, did not specify what pressure France might use but said: “There are many ways of oneself heard.”
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