Former NATO Officer Convicted of Treason
A decorated French veteran of the 1991 Persian Gulf War was convicted of treason for alerting Serbs to possible NATO targets in Yugoslavia before the alliance began military strikes there in 1999.
Pierre-Henri Bunel was sentenced by a military court to five years in prison, with three years suspended.
Bunel, 49, was decorated by Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf in the Gulf War for his work as a translator.
A former officer in France’s delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels, Bunel was convicted of delivering confidential information to an enemy power. He has repeatedly denied he committed treason.
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