Secrets and spies
What's on TV|February 25, 2023
How French intelligence agents bombed a ship belonging to Greenpeace...
HANNAH DAVIES.
Secrets and spies

In the early hours of 10 July 1985, Peter Willcox, captain of Greenpeace's ship Rainbow Warrior, was woken by a huge explosion.

The environmental campaign group had docked in Auckland New Zealand, to protest against French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

'My room was upside down,' says Peter in new docuseries Murder in the Pacific. 'In the engine room, water was rising, then the second explosion happened. I shouted, "Abandon ship!" The whole boat sank in 40 seconds.'

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