UK decries France's seizure of fishing boat as post-Brexit row deepens

FILE PHOTO: A sign reading "security area" is pictured at the entrance of the Port of Le Havre, France, May 9, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

LE HAVRE, France (Reuters) -Britain denounced France's seizure of a British boat in French waters and warned Paris against further retaliation on Thursday, in a rapidly deteriorating row over post-Brexit fishing rights.

The Cornelis Gert Jan, a scallop dredger, was escorted to the northern port of Le Havre overnight after its crew failed to prove it was allowed to fish in French territorial waters, French Seas Minister Annick Girardin said.