A French court is to try the Chinese captain of a tanker from Russia's "shadow fleet" early next year after it was intercepted off France, prosecutors said Thursday, in a move seen as a message to Moscow over its efforts to skirt Western oil sanctions.
The French navy on Saturday stopped the Boracay, a vessel claiming to be flagged in Benin and blacklisted by the European Union for being part of Russia's sanction-busting "shadow fleet" of ageing oil tankers, according to the public prosecutor's office in the northwestern city of Brest.
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gressen@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 328d
If it's not immediately clear this tanker was used to launch drones that caused brief closures at Danish airports.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 4 pts · 328d
One by one, with due process. Let's hope it's enough against the onslaught. I really do not want to promote undemocratic/extrajudicial solutions here.