French troops have boarded the deck of a tanker alleged to be from Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ and suspected of involvement in drone flights over Denmark last month.
A source within the executive branch told AFP earlier that the French navy had boarded the Boracay, a Benin-flagged vessel blacklisted by the European Union for being part of Russia’s sanction-busting fleet of ageing oil tankers.
French President Emmanuel Macron did not confirm reports of a connection to Danish drone flights but said on Wednesday that the ship had committed ‘serious offences’.
