Apology does not absolve Rainbow Warrior 'murder': captain

[WorldNews]

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An apology from a French secret service frogman who helped blow up the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985 does not absolve him and then president Francois Mitterrand of "cold-blooded murder", the ship's captain said Monday. Former military diver Jean-Luc Kister on Sunday said sorry for his part in the bombing which killed Portuguese photographer Fernando Pereira and sent Greenpeace's converted trawler to the bottom of Auckland harbour. Pete Willcox, the Rainbow Warrior's skipper on that July night 30 years ago, accepted Kister's apology was genuine but said it should not obscure the harsh truth about the attack.

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