JPK witness case adjourned for ninth time

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Vetea Guilloux at an earlier hearing: testified to assassination of JPK

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Ninth adjournment for Vetea Guilloux

A former secret service agent in French Polynesia who accused fellow agents of killing a journalist has had his case adjourned for the ninth time in seven years.

Vetea Guilloux was charged with spreading "misleading and malicious accusations" in early 2005, after going public about the disappearance of a former Tahiti editor, Jean-Pascal Couraud.

In late 2004, Guilloux said that he had been at a staff party with other presidential agents when he heard two of them joking about drowning the editor, known locally as JPK.

Two of the agents have since died, their deaths raising serious questions.

Guilloux will return to trial in Paris, at the 7th courtroom of the 2nd Division in the Court of Appeal, a section of the French justice system focused on press law and personal rights.

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