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Radio France Internationale
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Jan van der Made

You still can't sink a rainbow, Greenpeace boss says 40 years after bombing

File photo from 1 August 1985 shows the bombed hull of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior, sabotaged by the French secret service in Auckland on 9 July to stop protests against nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll. © ROSS WHITE / AFP

Forty years after the Rainbow Warrior bombing, Greenpeace International’s executive director Mads Christensen says the attack only made the movement stronger and proved that “you can’t sink a rainbow”. He tells RFI how one act of violence inspired generations of activists and continues to fuel their fight for the planet.

RFI: What did the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior mean for you personally?

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