French intelligence agency member charged with 1985 bombing of Rainbow Warrior
A then-member of the French intelligence agency and brother of presidential candidate has been charged with the bombing -- in 1985 -- of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior.
[..] Gerard was a member of the French intelligence sabotage squad who planted the bombs on the Rainbow Warrior. At the time, (Gerard) was a lieutenant and agent of the DGSE (intelligence agency) in Asia. He was asked in 1985 to go to New Zealand, to Auckland harbour, to sabotage the Rainbow Warrior. Later he told me that it was he who planted the bomb on the Greenpeace ship. He took a small craft with a second person to approach the boat."