The World - News from July 23, 1986
Two French agents convicted of involvement in the 1985 bombing of a Greenpeace ship in Auckland harbor were deported from New Zealand, fulfilling an agreement negotiated earlier this month, Prime Minister David Lange announced. The agents, Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur, were en route to Hao atoll in French Polynesia, where they will be confined for three years. Lange said France has paid compensation of $7 million to New Zealand and formally apologized for the incident, in which a photographer from the environmental group died. New Zealand’s solicitor general cleared the way for the agents’ deportation by staying court proceedings against them on explosives charges.
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