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. . . COMMENT Recently fined 1000 euros for defaming a Pape'ete prosecutor, Tahiti Pacifique publisher Alex du Prel has blasted back with a front cover expose of secret dealings during the Flosse years. The phrase " barbouzes " is slang similar to "spooks" while " filatures, surveillances, enregistrements " refers to shadowing, surveillance and recordings. September caps a rough few months for the 18 year old magazine, one of the few independents left in the Pacific. Earlier, a Paris court, 18,000 kilometres from Pape'ete, had found in favour of a complaint from a French prosecutor representing Tahiti. It is one of the few successful attempts at defamation proceedings, du Prel receiving dozens of legal - and illegal - threats over the years. Their decision came despite earlier decisions by the Consultative Commission on National Defence Secrets to not release three documents from the Directorate General of External Security, French ...

president gaston flosse in 2003, during a visit to french polynesia by jacques chirac NEWS Officials from a Japanese bank claim to have found "no evidence" of an account held for former French president Jacques Chirac. The claim is made in one of seventeen documents seized by an investigatory magistrate from Pape'ete, Jean-François Redonnet, according to French media reports. Redonnet astonished Paris circles when he arrived from Tahiti with search warrants for the offices of the DGSE, Directorate General of External Security, a French equivalent of America's Central Intelligence Agency. 'A LITTLE JUDGE' One site, Lalettrea, headlined its coverage - Le petit juge qui grandit subitement - "A little judge suddenly grows up." Reporting on the search, another site, Le Point, quotes sources as saying the "atmosphere was relaxed" as the judge settled in at a meeting room of the DGSE on Mortier boulevard. The next day, Redonnet also served a war...

a photocopy sign for a meeting of the support committee for missing journalist, jean-pascal couraud. NEWS Police in French Polynesia have seized documents from the offices and home of the former lawyer for long missing journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud. The search was ordered by prosecutor Jean Bianconi after Jean-Dominique Des Arcis was questioned by investigating magistrate Jean-François Redonnet. Radio New Zealand International reports Des Arcis was questioned two days after the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of Couraud for making conflicting statements. RADIO EXPOSE The search was the first fallout from a controversial expose carried by France Inter, the second most popular radio station in France, according to a report from Rue 89, a French language news website. Among others, France Inter interviewed Des Arcis who, for the first time, declared that he did not think the disappeareance of "JPK" was suicide - contradicting earlier statements. The family had previous...