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...couple, identified as Alain Turenge, 33, and Sophie Turenge, 36, claimed to be Swiss tourists, a government spokesman in Berne said that the Turenges "do not exist" in Swiss records. Police have issued warrants for the arrest of three French-speaking men who were aboard a yacht, the Ouvea, in New Zealand waters at the time of the incident. The yacht had been chartered from the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia...
Almost simultaneously with the release in the Middle East, the quiet of a South Pacific dawn in Ouvea, New Caledonia, was broken by the dull thud of smoke bombs and the crackle of small-arms fire. Some 300 elite French troops and gendarmes had launched an operation to rescue 23 Frenchmen from a cave where they had been held by Melanesian separatists. In the 7 1/2-hour gun battle that ensued, two gendarmes and 19 militants died...
...findings of the Tricot report. But doubts were already growing within the Cabinet and the Socialist Party. Le Monde, among others, charged that the true saboteurs of the Rainbow Warrior were neither the jailed pair of French agents nor the three-man crew of the spy yacht Ouvea, which allegedly had been sent from the French territory of New Caledonia to back up the operation. The real hitmen, claimed Le Monde, were two unidentified frogmen, probably from France's underwater demolition training base in Corsica, who were supplied with explosives by the support teams. They were said to have attached...
...surveillance before it set out on its protest mission, the report said. Two of them, Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart, are being held in custody in New Zealand on charges of murder and arson. Three other agents, all men, were identified by the report as crew members of the Ouvea, a chartered yacht spotted in New Zealand waters shortly before the explosion. The fact that Mafart and the Ouvea crew members were all experts in underwater demolition raised new suspicions. Alain Madelin, a rightist member of the French Assembly, spoke for many doubters when he bluntly questioned "the need...
After 17 days of reviewing government documents, reading diplomatic wires and questioning officials, ranging from Premier Fabius and Defense Minister Charles Hernu to the three agents who were aboard the Ouvea, Tricot said that he had "absolutely no idea" who was behind the bombing. Tricot himself fanned the skepticism when, in a newspaper interview following the report's release, he conceded that he "did not exclude the possibility that I was duped...
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