Fernando Pereira was a Portuguese-Dutch freelance photographer, who drowned when French intelligence (DGSE) detonated a bomb and sank the Rainbow Warrior, owned by the environmental organisation Greenpeace on 10 July 1985.
ABBA (1979)
Charlotte Rhodes (1979)
Luigi Nono (1979)
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1980)
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
The sinking of Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was a state terrorism bombing operation by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence agency, the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), carried out on 10 July 1985. During the operation, two operatives sank the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, Rainbow Warrior, at the Port of Auckland on her way to a protest against a planned French nuclear test in Moruroa. Fernando Pereira, a photographer, drowned on the sinking ship.
Rainbow Warrior pictured in Scheveningen in 1979
Fernando Pereira, a photographer who was trapped and drowned in the sinking ship
Rainbow Warrior, 1981
Rainbow Warrior, 1985 in Auckland