(Tasnim) – France has detained a British scallop trawler owned by Macduff Shellfish and given a verbal warning to another fishing boat in waters off its coast.
French maritime minister Annick Girardin said it is "not war, it's a fight" amid a warning the country could ban allowing British fishing boats to disembark at French ports from next week if tensions are not resolved.
Clement Beaune, France's Europe minister, said on CNews TV: "So now, we need to speak the language of strength since that seems to be the only thing this British government understands."
Andrew Brown, director of Macduff Shellfish which owns the detained vessel, told Sky News the boat was being used as a "pawn in an ongoing dispute" between the two countries...
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