The World - News from July 24, 1985
A New Zealand court charged a French-speaking couple with murder and arson in the July 10 bombing that sank the Greenpeace environmental organization’s ship, Rainbow Warrior, and killed a crewman. Police said that Alain Turenge, 33, and Sophie Turenge, 36, claimed they were Swiss citizens. The Greenpeace ship was to have led protests against France’s planned test of a nuclear device at Mururoa Atoll. The French Embassy said France was “in no way involved” with the attack.
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