United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks throughout a joint press convention with President Donald Trump on the White Home in Washington DC in February 27. File photograph by Chris Kleponis/UPI | License Photograph
Might 25 (UPI) — French authorities have impounded a British vessel for allegedly fishing of their waters and not using a license, officers introduced.
The French Navy stopped the vessel on Thursday night time within the English Channel, which is being held on the port of Boulogne whereas authorities take into account prosecution.
“Because the vessel stays topic to an ongoing investigation by French fisheries authorities, we’re unable to remark additional at the moment,” a authorities official mentioned, in keeping with the BBC.
The French coast guard mentioned its navy vessel Pluvier was conducting regular inspections in nationwide waters on Might 23 when it found the British vessel fishing, the “Woman T,” and not using a license.
The incident occurred just some days after British fishermen criticized Prime Minister Keir Starmer for agreeing to a deal that provides European Union fishing vessels entry to British waters for a dozen years.
Conservative British politicians have accused the French of “shameful double requirements over the arrest of a British nationwide now in French custody.
Shadow house secretary Chris Philp mentioned French authorities have permitted thousand of migrants to cross the Channel in small boats and “taking no motion by any means at sea an typically ushering the unlawful immigrants into UK waters,” he mentioned.
“But when a UK fishing vessel is in French waters rapidly they’re magically capable of act. If the French can now intercept boats then they need to begin stopping the boats with unlawful immigrants – as worldwide regulation obliges them to do.”
French authorities have mentioned seizing the “Woman T” was a “tit-for-tat” motion after British authorities fined a French vessel greater than $54,000 for breaching UK maritime guidelines, a French fishing official mentioned.