Rainbow Warrior Bombing

One night in 1985, on July the 10th, Greenpeace people were celebrating the director of the anti-nuclear movement’s 29th birthday on the Rainbow Warrior. While they partied, two French man, in scuba gear, attached two limpet bombs to the bottom of the boat. ‘Boom boom’ exploded the bomb ‘Abandon ship Abandon ship’! said  Peter Willcox. Tragically the bomb killed one crew member. His name was Fernando Pereira

The French spies were working for the French government. Their mission was an undercover operation to explode the Rainbow Warrior, so they can stop them protesting about the nuclear testing in the South Pacific. 720 people got affected by the French people testing nuclear bombs around the Islands. People got cancer and their babies got deformities.  

Two of the spies got arrested by the police. They had to go to prison for 10 years, but the French government told them to bring the two to their prison or they won’t buy their dairy and other products. That was a lot of money that New Zealand were going to lose so they released the spies and spies went back to France.