Greenpeace bomber apologises

A retired French secret service agent has apologised for planting the bombs which sank a Greenpeace ship 30 years ago, killing a photographer and causing an international incident that tarnished the image of France.

Jean-Luc Kister told Television New Zealand he and his colleagues never meant to kill anybody when they attached two bombs to the Rainbow Warrior on July 10, 1985, while the boat was moored in Auckland.

The boat was to travel to French Polynesia to protest French nuclear testing.