Chirac praises agents
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The Prime Minister of France, Mr Jacques Chirac, said yesterday that the French Army had every reason to be proud of the two officers involved in the sinking of the Greenpeace antinuclear protest ship Rainbow Warrior. However, he out a visit to the two French
secret service agents, Major Alain Mafart and Captain Dominique Prieur, who have been transferred to the South Pacific atoll of Hao from a New Zealand prison. The two were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in New Zealand for their part in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour last year.
They were released in July and sent to France’s Polynesian base at Hao as part of a settlement worked out with New Zealand by the United Nations Secretary-Gen-eral, Mr Javier Perez de Cuellar, and under which France agreed to apologise and pay SUS 7 millfen ($l3 million) to New Zealarm.
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