PARIS (Reuters) -French police have arrested two crew members of a tanker suspected of belonging to the Russian shadow fleet after the French navy boarded the vessel over the weekend, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said in a post on X on Thursday.
The two crew members were arrested at the request of the Brest prosecutor, whose office is handling the investigation into the boat, currently anchored off western France. Its crew is accused of failing to provide proof of the vessel’s nationality and failing to comply with orders.
(Reporting by Alessandro Parodi and Makini Brice)
