Watched a foreign movie called "outside the law".
A story of an Algerian family who get involved with the freedom struggle, to gain independence from France !!! Wow .... did not know the French were as bad as any other colonists???
Excellent watch ..
Doesn't surprise me at all. The French aren't a particularly gentle people. They're quite arrogant and don't give a toss what others think. Just think of all the nuclear testing they kept doing even though the entire world was protesting against it. They didn't give a toss and just continued with it.
They're the ones responsible for sinking Green Peace's Rainbow Warrior when GP was observing the fallout from their nuclear tests on Mururoa Atoll, part of French Polynesia, and protesting against it.
French a-holes posing as tourists and supporters boarded the ship. Two explosives sank it in 1985.
They got on my blacklist right there and then. And having a short holiday in France later made clear that was a good choice.
If you're interested:
Rainbow Warrior was sabotaged and sunk just before midnight NZST on 10 July 1985, by two explosive devices attached to the hull by operatives of the French intelligence service (DGSE). One of the twelve people on board, photographer Fernando Pereira, returned to the ship after the first explosion to attempt to retrieve his equipment, and was killed when the ship was sunk by the second, larger explosion.
A homicide inquiry began after the arrests of two French agents. The revelations of French involvement caused a political scandal and the French Minister of Defence Charles Hernu resigned. The captured French agents were imprisoned, but later transferred to French custody. They were confined to the French military base on the Island of Hao for a brief period before being released. After facing international pressure, France agreed to pay compensation to Greenpeace, and later admissions from the former head of the DGSE revealed that three teams had carried out the bombings. In addition to those successfully prosecuted, two DGSE divers, Jacques Camurier and Alain Tonel, had carried out the actual bombing, but their identities have never been officially confirmed
I'll check out the movie later :) I like learning historic stuff.
Edited by
SparklingCrystal ๐๐
on Sat 08/21/21 06:36 AM
