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The Lucona Bomb: How Power Sank a Ship and Bought Silence
The Lucona Bomb: How Power Sank a Ship and Bought Silence
Fear of power protecting a crime: a ship carrying a declared cargo worth 212 million Austrian schillings exploded in calm seas and six of twelve people aboard died - yet ministers repeatedly intervened to stop the case. Who used political influence to shield the man behind the manifest, and how deep did that protection run?
In this episode, you hear the sequence of events from the explosion on 23 January 1977 near Minicoy to the years of obstruction that followed, following the cargo claim, the dead crew, and journalist Hans…
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