Spotlight on ’85

The Rainbow Warrior incident is back in the news, with convicted French agents Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart seeking to legally bar TVNZ from screening previously unseen footage of their Auckland District Court appearance. Prieur and Mafart were found guilty of bombing Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour in 1985, killing Portuguese photographer Fernando Pereira in the process. They received a 10-year prison sentence, but were transferred to a French military base in French Polynesia in July 1986, and repatriated to France shortly after.