From 1h agoPhilp rejects French claim that shots fired from naval boat near him were training exercise, not intimidationAccording to Chris Philp, the French authorities are now saying the shots fired from the boat near him in the Channel were just part of a training exercise. He has accused them of not telling the truth.Philp says:

double quotation markThe French are now claiming that the shots were a training exercise

This is not credible

There were no warnings in place about live firing training exercises. They fired the live rounds at the closest point of approach to us - and didn’t fire anything that we saw before or after

It looked and sounded exactly like deliberate intimidation