[ElKrist]

It's worth looking over the sections "Reparations" and "Foreign Relations" of the article you linked.

"In 1987,(...) France paid $8.16m to Greenpeace in damages, (...) It also paid compensation to the Pereira family, reimbursing his life insurance company for 30,000 guilders and making reparation payments of 650,000 francs to Pereira's wife, 1.5 million francs to his two children, and 75,000 francs to each of his parents."

"In June 1986, (...) France agreed to pay NZ$13 million (US$6.5 million) to New Zealand and apologise"

"Although France had formally apologised to the New Zealand Government in 1986,[28] during a visit in April 1991 French Prime Minister Michel Rocard delivered a personal apology. He said it was "to turn the page in the relationship and to say, if we had known each other better, this thing never would have happened. (...) During a visit in 2016, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls reiterated that the incident had been "a serious error"

France fucked up, admitted it and did gestures for reparations