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これまでいろんなところでミッテランの関与が言われていましたが、ルモンドがラコステ当事幕僚長、元DGSE長官の手書き報告を入手し、調度20年前事件が起こった日に記事を出しました。その報告によりミッテラン当事大統領のもとでの作戦であったことがはっきりしました。フランス語の読める方はこちら
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-671207,0.html
またGlobe and Mail-APの転載とTimes, IHTへのリンクを記しておきます。
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/10/news/green.php
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1689202,00.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050710.wgreenpeace0710/BNStory/International/
Mitterrand allegedly authoraized 1985 bombing
Sunday, July 10, 2005 Updated at 11:24 AM EDT
Associated Press
Paris - A former head of France's spy agency claimed that the late President Francois Mitterrand approved the sinking of a Greenpeace ship in a New Zealand harbor 20 years ago, according to a French newspaper report. A man was killed and the case turned into an embarrassment for Paris.
Top officials in France were fired in the aftermath, but Mr. Mitterrand's exact role has been unclear.
In its Sunday-Monday edition, daily Le Monde published extracts of a 23-page, handwritten account by Adm. Pierre Lacoste, the former head of DGSE spy agency, in which he says that Mr. Mitterrand authorized the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland's port.
The ship was preparing for a protest at sea against French nuclear bomb tests in the South Pacific when the explosion ripped open its hull and the vessel sank. Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira died.
The account was published for Sunday's 20-year anniversary of the July 10, 1985, sinking of the ship. Hundreds of people gathered across France to commemorate the sinking and pay tribute to Mr. Pereira.
In Paris, demonstrators dressed in rainbow colours gathered behind a banner that read “You can't sink a Rainbow,” and formed a peace symbol on a square overlooking the Eiffel Tower.
The newspaper said Adm. Lacoste prepared the report a year after the bombing and that it had remained secret since.
“I asked the president if he gave me permission to put into action the neutralization plan that I had studied on the request of Monsieur (Charles) Hernu,” the defence minister at the time, Adm. Lacoste wrote.
“He gave me his agreement while stressing the importance he placed on the nuclear tests,” Adm. Lacoste said. Mr. Hernu and Mr. Lacoste were fired.
Two DSGE agents, Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur, were convicted of willful damage and manslaughter and were sentenced to 10 years in prison. After less than a year in prison in New Zealand, they returned to Paris as heroes. The New Zealand government called the bombing the country's first terror attack.
Adm. Lacoste wrote that the spy agency had concluded that “sabotage” against the Rainbow Warrior was the only way to “effectively hinder” any action by Greenpeace against the nuclear tests.
“I would not have carried out such an operation without the personal authorization of the president of the republic,” he wrote.
In a 1989 book, “Inquiry Into Three State Secrets,” French journalists Jacques Derogy and Jean-Marie Pontaut alleged that Mitterrand had known of the plans to sink the ship.
A French government report in 1985 said Gen. Jean Saulnier - then Mitterrand's personal military adviser - had authorized funding for the operation.
Shortly after the bombing, Mitterrand called the attack on the Rainbow Warrior “a criminal and absurd act.”
Adm. Lacoste said the cover-up was intentional and Mitterrand “knew but chose to feign ignorance, and take up the game of 'searching for the truth' - mixed with a vigorous condemnation of the 'criminals.”'
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