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jpk witnesses die "strange" deaths

Tahiti Pacifique Magazine , February 2006 EDITORIAL The GIP-JPK Affair (continued) A second (astonishing) judgment against Vetea Guilloux. The GIP-JPK legal series continues Vetea Guilloux, a former member of GIP (Polynesian Intervention Group) who exposed two former colleagues to a cabinet minister as taking part in the kidnapping and then assassination of the journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud in 1997, was condemned to 12 months in prison, with 11 deferred, for “false allegations.” The magistrates of the Court of Appeal of Papeete ruled that Vetea Guilloux “lied” and that his allegations had led to long and meticulous investigations, justifying the earlier judgment. The Chief Prosecutor initially sought a judgment of 12 months in prison with 9 months deferred for ‘slanderous allegations’ but who had previously been stalled because an inquiry into the disappearance of the journalist was still underway. As Vetea had already been imprisoned, he was freed for this lawsuit, and allowed to app