Alain Mafart

Alain Michel Yves Mafart (* 1951 ) is a French officer who was convicted of manslaughter in New Zealand . He was involved in the action of the French secret service, in which on July 10, 1985 the ship of the organization Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior was sunk in Auckland and the Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira was killed.

Mafart was an agent of the DGSE and deputy commander of a training center for the French Navy in Corsica . After the attack on the ship and the death of the photographer, he was arrested by the New Zealand police and charged with his colleague Dominique Prieur . As a result of a criminal procedural deal, both pleaded guilty and were charged not with murder but with manslaughter. You were sentenced to 10 years in prison on November 22, 1985. Under an international agreement between France and New Zealand, the convicts were allowed to spend their time in French Polynesia .

On December 14, 1987, Mafart was brought to Paris because he complained of stomach pain. He never returned to French Polynesia, in violation of the New Zealand agreement. In 1988 he enrolled at the École supérieure de guerre military academy in Paris.

Mafart was promoted to colonel in December 1993 .

He wrote a book about his role in the attack entitled Carnets secrets d'un nageur de combat: Du Rainbow Warrior aux glaces de l'Arctique ( Swimmer's Secret Notes: From the Rainbow Warrior to the Arctic Ice ).

Web links

Where are they now ( Memento from February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Greenpeace
Where are they now , (current page at Greenpeace)
The Rainbow Warrior Affair

Individual evidence

↑ Décret du 23 June 1994 portant promotion et nomination. June 25, 1994, accessed March 2, 2020 (French).
↑ Henri Astier: French expat recalls NZ bombing BBC News, July 8, of 2005.
^ Case concerning the difference between New Zealand and France. (PDF; 1.4 MB) Archived from the original on April 3, 2012 ; accessed on May 19, 2018 (English).
↑ Where are they now ( Memento of February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Greenpeace.

personal data
SURNAME	Mafart, Alain
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mafart, Alain Michel Yves
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French officer
DATE OF BIRTH	1951

[1] Décret du 23 June 1994 portant promotion et nomination. June 25, 1994, accessed March 2, 2020 (French).

[2] Henri Astier: French expat recalls NZ bombing BBC News, July 8, of 2005.

[3] Case concerning the difference between New Zealand and France. (PDF; 1.4 MB) Archived from the original on April 3, 2012 ; accessed on May 19, 2018 (English).

[4] Where are they now ( Memento of February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Greenpeace.