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📍Indian Ocean | The French Navy led a high sea intervention in order to control the pavilion of an oil tanker ashore Reunion IslandView quoted post on X
This operation aimed to verify the nationality of a ship asserting a Beninese flag. The French sailors examined the papers of the ship and verified the suspicions.
The ship has been rerouted at the demand of the public prosecutor, under escort of the French Navy. The whole operation was led in compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (art. 110 UNCLOS)