The captain of the tanker from the Russian Shadow Fleet will be in court in France

Captain of the tanker Boracay, associated with the Russian so -called A fleet of shadows, will stand before a court in France – the prosecutor's office informed on Thursday. Earlier, two people from the tanker crew, claiming to be the captain and his deputy, were reported. Both have a PRC citizenship.

The prosecutor's office in Breest is investigating that the unit's crew did not provide information about its belonging and did not comply with orders. A man who introduces himself as a tanker captain will be tried for this second offense and is to appear in court in February 2026. His deputy will not be called to court.

AFP said that French soldiers are still on Thursday on board the unit, detained off the coast of France on the Atlantic, at the height of the city of Saint-Nazaire.

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecorn thanked in a commentary on the X Navy commandos for intervention on board the tanker. In the commentary he mentioned that it had occurred at the weekend as part of the investigation into this unit.

The French investigation does not currently apply to assumptions – appearing in the media – that the tanker could be used for incidents related to the flights of unidentified drones over airports in Denmark. For example, as AFP said – the use of a tanker as a drone firing platform. President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that he would be “very cautious” when it comes to combining these two matters.

Almost 20-year-old tanker, currently floating under the flag of Benin and using the names of Boracay and Pushpa, sailed on September 20 from Primorsk in the Leningrad region, 137 km west of St. Petersburg. He swam through the Baltic and was to flow to India, but on September 28 he turned back and chose the course to Saint-Nazaire.

In the past, the unit has been changed many times and bore the names: Odysseus, P. Fos, Kilad and Varuna. She swam under the flag of Gabon, Liberia, Marshall Islands and even Mongolia. The tanker is on the sanction lists of the European Union and several countries. According to the EU, it is associated with the transport of Russian oil and oil products. Russia conducts this practice to bypass the sanctions imposed on it in response to aggression against Ukraine.

From Paris Anna Wróbel (PAP)

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