Fernando Pereira (May 10th, 1950 - July 10th, 1985) was a Photographe free Dutch lance, of Portuguese origin. He had left his country, the Portugal, in the middle of the Années 1970 to escape the conscription and not to take part in the colonial wars in Africa. He is expatriate with the Netherlands, where he joined Greenpeace to use his qualities of photographer to fine policies.

He was member of Greenpeace and had left for a mission six months on the Rainbow Warrior as photographer.

He died drowned the July 10th 1985, when two explosions transpierced the hull of the Rainbow Warrior in the port of Auckland. The remainder of the crew had been able to be put in safety, but had set out again to him to seek its material.

Pereira had just celebrated its 35e birthday in the atoll of Rongelap of the Marshall Islands with the crew of Rainbow Warrior. It envisaged to go to Moruroa to show in the world photographs French Nuclear tests.

Two members of the French secret services, Dominique Prior and Alain Mafart are recognized guilty of manslaughter by a court of New Zealand. They were condemned to ten years of prison, and were held in Polynesia two years. Fernando Pereira is since a Martyr for Greenpeace and its sympathizers.

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