Overview

• The captain and first officer were taken into custody, prosecutor Stéphane Kellenberger said, after the tanker was stopped off Saint-Nazaire.
• French inspection teams boarded the vessel and special forces are securing the deck as judicial proceedings proceed under the Brest prosecutor’s office.
• Published AIS data reported by Le Monde and The Maritime Executive place the Boracay near Danish waters from September 22 to 25, overlapping with unexplained drone flights that remain under investigation.
• The ship, formerly named Pushpa, sails under a Benin flag, is listed under EU and UK sanctions, and was detained by Estonian authorities earlier this year for lacking valid registration.
• President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu praised the operation, describing pressure on shadow‑fleet tankers as key to enforcing European sanctions.