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The Rainbow Warrior Affair
Television (Excerpts) – 1986
Some people in France and some politicians, certainly in France, think that we are some sort of platform for an anti-French position within the South Pacific. That has, of course, a long history.– Prime Minister David Lange on New Zealand's anti-nuclear stance being a possible motive
In no way was France involved. The French Government does not deal with its opponents in such ways.– Official statement after the bombing, by the French Embassy
To suggest that we deserved it because we didn't appreciate the danger that the world may or may not have been in from the anti-nuclear stance is ridiculous. I think it reflects the thinking in the French secret service and at least some political masters that they could actually perpetrate a bombing in a friendly country.– Ex Detective Superintendent Allan Galbraith, who led the investigation into the bombing, in The Sunday Star-Times, 9 July 2017
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