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Actions and protests
Day
Fighting
French Government
Greenpeace activists
Greenpeace campaigners
Nuclear (campaign title)
Nuclear weapons testing
Outdoors
Police
SV Vega
Violence
VEGA boarded by French commandos in Moruroa
A sequence of images of French police boarding the VEGA and beating up McTaggart. In August 1973, the Vega sails into the zone the French government has declared a prohibited area. On 15 August the yacht is boarded by a French navy commando. Nigel Ingram and David McTaggart are beaten up and injured. Ann-Marie Horne manages to take pictures of the attack and smuggle them off the ship. (Greenpeace Witness book page 12 similar) (The Greenpeace story book page 28-29 similar) (Greenpeace 30th Anniversary Images photo 2) (Greenpeace Changing the World page 32)
Unique identifier:
GP0SNT
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
15/08/1973
Locations:
French Polynesia
,
Moruroa
,
Polynesia
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Ann-Marie Horne
Ranking:
★★★★★★★ (A)
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Nuclear Action against French Nuclear Testing in Moruroa
A sequence of images of French police boarding the VEGA and beating up McTaggart. The SV VEGA was boarded by French commandos in the nuclear test zone of Moruroa during a Greenpeace action to stop the tests.
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