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. . . NEWS On Friday at the Palais de Justice , the Vetea Guilloux affair , deferred from 10 April 2009, was again adjourned, this time to 29 January 2010, without argument against. The only legal representative at the hearing was for Mr. Quinquis , and said that, therefore, while not appearing on behalf of the other party, an a priori application for adjournment should still be accepted by the courts, even when unopposed. Again postponed, hearings on this part of the JPK dossier involving Guilloux, with judges deciding on the facts of a case by Vetea Guilloux against others for "false claims" and "wrongful dismissal". In 2004, he publicly accused fellow GIP operatives Tino Mara and Tutu Manate of having 'disappeared' former Pape'ete editor Jean Pascal Couraud . Vetea Guilloux at first admitted to lying, then retracted his admission. Sentenced on first appearance, he appealed, but the Supreme Court quashed a decisi...

An undated, hand-written letter outlining the abduction, torture and killing of a former Pape’ete editor was found at the home of a former French Polynesia president. Police officers found the letter in a drawer during a raid on Flosse’s home in September 2008. News of the find only emerged today. Gaston Flosse at first refused comment, according to a report from AFP, later issuing a statement labelling the allegations “scandalous.” Author of the letter is said to be Vetea Cadousteau, a former member of a secret spy cell who died in “very disturbing” circumstances, according to lawyers for a support committee of the editor, Jean-Pascal Couraud. Handwriting analysis of the letter was “inconclusive”, said laywers James Lau and Max Gatti in a statement for Soutien JPK. Further testing is needed to confirm the author of the letter of testimony, several pages long. Lawyers for Flosse, a member of the French senate, dismissed the letter as a “set up”, part of a “plot”. The ...

jean-pascal couraud, above TV REVIEW Death in the tropics Presented by Elise Lucet. An inquiry by Magali Serre and Christian Gaudin (France, 2008). 105 minutes. In 1997, Tahitian journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud, by-lined JPK, disappeared under troubling circumstances. Suicide? At first, the family take this hypothesis on board, before revelations in 2004 by a certain Vetea Guilloux lead them to lodge a complaint for murder and complicity. Investigative journalist and opposition politicians aimed at Gaston Flosse (then president of Polynesia), JPK investigating a number of sensitive dossiers of local and metropolitan authorities, addressing issues including patronage, fictitious jobs and embezzlement. He was therefore closely monitored by GIP, the Intervention Group of Polynesia, assimilated as a section under the presidency, a service employing Vetea Guilloux. If they fail to precisely identify those truly responsible for the death of Jean-Pascal Couraud, numerous documents and testimon...