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Papeete prosecutor pushes press case in Paris

. . . NEWS Papeete prosecutor pushes press case in Paris   A cartoon features in a criminal defamation case pursued by French authorities against a long time Tahiti editor and his magazine. "True justice, like the can-can, only happens in Paris," reads the cartoon, of a justice official pushing court files to the sides, including one marked JPK. Former Papeete editor, Jean Pascal Couraud, known as JPK, disappeared in 1997 with police marking his dossier "suicide." JUNE DECISION Allegations were made in 2004 by a secret agent that, instead of suicide, Couraud had been abducted by secret agents, tortured and killed. Hearings on 19 th May into the defamation claim relate to a January 2007 cover of Tahiti Pacifique magazine headlined, " Yes, JPK was assassinated ." A decision is due 23 June 2009, reports Rue89 . "SURPRISE WITNESS" More recently, in April this year, Tahiti Pacifique reported that a "surprise witness" had app