The protest of French fishermen off the coast of Jersey ended Thursday afternoon without incident. The United Kingdom and France sent two naval patrol boats to the site to monitor the situation, but the warships did not intervene and dozens of French fishing boats marched to the island’s port in the morning, MTI reported.
Located 22 kilometers off the coast of Normandy, Jersey, with its vast self-governing powers and 108,000 inhabitants, is not part of the United Kingdom but a Crown Dependent Territory.
Since the end of Britain’s membership in the European Union last January, Britain’s exit from the European Union, this was the first conflict of interpretation between the United Kingdom and an EU member state that includes the armed forces of the countries involved, although both London and Paris stressed the arrival of the two warships . The site is only for patrol and monitoring purposes.
According to the French authority, if a solution is not found, countermeasures on the part of France are expected. Downing Street was informed that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke by phone on Thursday with Senator John Le Fondret, a senior minister in the Jersey Council, assuring him that Jersey could count on London’s full support. Johnson also said that two British Royal Navy patrol ships would remain at the site as a precaution. London drove the patrol boats Severn and Tamar from Portsmouth in southern England to the shores of Jersey.
The personnel of the patrol class is 90.5 meters long, with artillery and short-range air defense equipment among their on-board weapons. One of the heated debates between London and the European Union last year in a series of talks about the terms of the future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union gives a tenth of a percent.
