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{{Short description|Portuguese-Dutch photographer (1950–1985)}}
{{other people|Fernando Pereira}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
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| name               = Fernando Pereira
| image              = Fernando Pereira.jpg
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| caption            = Pereira in 1984, during ''[[Rongelap_Atoll#Relocated_by_Greenpeace|Operation Exodus]]''
| birth_name         = 
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|df=y|1950|5|10}}
| birth_place        = [[Chaves, Portugal|Chaves]], Portugal
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|df=y|1985|7|10|1950|5|10}}
| death_place        = [[Auckland]], New Zealand
| occupation         = {{hlist|Photographer}}
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}}

'''Fernando Pereira''' (10 May 1950 – 10 July 1985) was a Portuguese-Dutch freelance photographer, who drowned when French intelligence ([[DGSE]]) [[Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior|detonated a bomb and sank the ''Rainbow Warrior'']], owned by the environmental organisation [[Greenpeace]] on 10 July 1985.<ref>{{Cite web |title=French Agents Sink the Rainbow Warrior {{!}} EBSCO Research Starters |url=https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/french-agents-sink-rainbow-warrior |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=www.ebsco.com |language=en}}</ref>

The bombing of the boat had been designed to make the ship unsalvageable. The first smaller bomb bent the propeller shaft, making repair uneconomic. Pereira stayed inside the boat to get his camera and other pieces of equipment. The second, more powerful explosion, designed to sink the boat, caused a huge inrush of seawater that drowned Pereira.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior |url=https://www.greenpeace.org.au/learn/bombing-of-the-rainbow-warrior/ |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=Greenpeace Australia Pacific |language=en-US}}</ref>

The ''Rainbow Warrior'' led a flotilla of yachts protesting against French [[nuclear testing]] at [[Mururoa Atoll]] in the [[Tuamotu Archipelago]] of [[French Polynesia]] and was about to depart Auckland for a campaign of legal demonstrations in international waters near the French military operational areas at [[Moruroa]] Atoll.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Remembering Fernando Pereira & the Rainbow Warrior |url=https://www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/remembering-fernando-pereira-and-the-rainbow-warrior?ref=ecodisciple.com |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=www.maritimemuseum.co.nz |language=en}}</ref>

==Subsequent updates==
On the twentieth anniversary of the sinking, it was revealed that the French president [[François Mitterrand]] had personally authorized the bombing.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E0DB153DF933A25754C0A9639C8B63  Report Says Mitterrand Approved Sinking of Greenpeace Ship], "The New York Times", 10 July 2005</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-02-09 |title=Two bombs sink the Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace’s flagship vessel {{!}} July 10, 1985 |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/july-10/the-sinking-of-the-rainbow-warrior |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=HISTORY |language=en}}</ref> Admiral [[Pierre Lacoste]] made a statement saying Pereira's death weighed heavily on his conscience. Also on that anniversary, [[Television New Zealand]] sought to access a video record made at the preliminary hearing where the two agents pleaded guilty. The footage has remained sealed on the court record since shortly after the conclusion of the criminal proceedings. The two agents [[Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior#French_agents|oppose release of the footage]] and have taken the case to the [[New Zealand Court of Appeal]] and, subsequently, the [[Supreme Court of New Zealand]].

In 2006, Antoine Royal, brother of the French presidential candidate [[Ségolène Royal]], revealed in an interview that their brother, [[Gérard Royal]], a former French intelligence officer, had been the agent who put the bombs on the ''Rainbow Warrior''.<ref>[http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/1356,news-comment,news-politics,segolenes-secret-warrior French politician’s brother is revealed as a bomber.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519215617/http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/1356,news-comment,news-politics,segolenes-secret-warrior |date=19 May 2011 }}, The First Post, 5 October 2006</ref><ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article657300.ece Royal link to Greenpeace bombing as probe begins]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, The Times,
2 October 2006</ref>

== Photographs by Pereira ==
<gallery>
Popgroep ABBA aangekomen op vliegveld Zestienhoven Rotterdam v.l.n.r. Björn U…, Bestanddeelnr 930-5073.jpg|[[ABBA]] (1979)
CharlotteRhodes9Oct1979.jpg|[[Onedin Line|''Charlotte Rhodes'']] (1979)
Persconferentie van Italiaanse componist Luigi Mono in Hilversum Luigi Mono (ko, Bestanddeelnr 923-6003.jpg|[[Luigi Nono]] (1979)
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1980).jpg|[[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]] (1980) 
Blokkade kerncentrale Dodewaard door leden aktiegroep Breek Atoomketen Nederland, Bestanddeelnr 930-8444.jpg|Anti-nuclear protests (1980)
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Fernando Pereira}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051111235154/http://www.greenpeace.org/international/rainbow-warrior-bombing/greenpeace-then-and-now "Death of a Rainbow Warrior,"] 10 July 2005 (20th anniversary), Greenpeace website.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070218163500/http://www.rainbow-warrior.org.nz/Fernando-Pereira.asp www.rainbow-warrior.org.nz] – article on the twentieth anniversary (2005).
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120205181051/http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/rw/pkspy.html "The French Secret Service Agents – Where  Are They Now?" ]- Greenpeace archives
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/world/europe/03iht-royal.html  "New Zealand won't reopen Rainbow Warrior case"] – New York Times (3 October 2006)
* [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/03/world/france-must-pay-greenpeace-8-million-in-sinking-of-ship.html France Must Pay Greenpeace $8 Million in Sinking of Ship] New York Times (3 October 1987)
* [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE2D7153CF935A3575AC0A963958260&sec France, Despite Wide Protests, Explodes a Nuclear Device] New York Times (6 September 1995)
*[http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/history/the-bombing-of-the-rainbow-war/Fernando-Pereira/ "Fernando Pereira, 1950 – 1985"]- Greenpeace International

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