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fake letter distracts from chirac no go

NEWS | BEHIND THE HEADLINES A French weekly has attacked the credibility of a document at the centre of l’affaire JPK, a four year old investigation into alleged assassination of a former editor from Tahiti. Journal de Dimanche declared a letter about the asassination of Jean-Pascal Couraud was a “fake.” Attributed to Vetea Cadousteau, the letter is still undergoing tests for authenticity. Cadousteau was former spy found dead in 2006, in a shallow valley river during a pig hunting trip. French media reports his body had socks on, but no shoes. Police from DNIF, the National Directorate of Financial Investigations, found the letter during a September 2008 search at the home of Gaston Flosse, former president of French Polynesia. The letter was in a drawer of his home office bureau. “I know that I will be killed for what I know” it reads. Last month, Flosse said he was lodging defamation suits against local and French media for their re