{"id":2636767,"date":"2026-07-28T14:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-navy-fires-live-shots-as-conservative-mp-crosses-english-channel\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:37:03","slug":"french-navy-fires-live-shots-as-conservative-mp-crosses-english-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-navy-fires-live-shots-as-conservative-mp-crosses-english-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"French navy fires live shots as Conservative MP crosses English Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrench-navy-fires-live-shots-as-conservative-mp-crosses-english-channel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2636767&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>French navy personnel reportedly fired over a dozen shots near a vessel involving a UK Member of Parliament (MP) while he was discussing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/english-channel-migrant-crossings-to-become-illegal-under-borders-bill-as-400-more-migrants-land\/\" title=\"... Migrant Crossings to Become Illegal Under Borders Bill, as 400 More Migrants Land\">small boat migrant crossings<\/a> in teh English Channel. Chris Philp, the MP for Croydon South and the UK&#8217;s shadow home secretary, posted a video showing the incident, where a French warship passed close behind him and appeared to fire multiple gunshots. Philp described the event as feeling like warning shots or attempted intimidation during a live broadcast with a BBC reporter.<\/p>\n<p>French authorities later clarified that the firing was part of a routine handgun firing exercise conducted by the french Navy off the coast of Cap de Gris-Nez, unrelated to the presence of the British vessel. Thay stated proper signals were displayed and safety protocols followed, emphasizing the exercise was not linked to monitoring migrant boats or the British ship\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes amid ongoing tensions over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cameras-to-be-installed-at-strategic-points-in-northern-france-to-prevent-illegal-migrant-crossings\/\" title=\"Cameras To Be Installed at &#039;Strategic Points&#039; in Northern France to Prevent Illegal Migrant Crossings\">illegal migrant crossings<\/a> in the Channel.The UK and France recently signed a multi-year, multimillion-dollar agreement to enhance border controls, contingent on the effectiveness of French efforts to curb the flow of migrants. Philp questioned whether the gunfire was a warning shot, highlighting the tense habitat surrounding border enforcement and migration issues in the region.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The French navy fired over a dozen shots near a vessel containing a conservative member of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/united-kingdom\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"547\">United Kingdom<\/a>\u2018s Parliament on Tuesday as he was being interviewed about small boat migrant crossings in the English Channel, the MP claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris Philp, the MP for the south London district of Croydon South and the U.K.\u2019s shadow home secretary, shared a video of the incident on social media. As seen in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CPhilpOfficial\/status\/2082034278612037836?s=20\">video<\/a>, Philp stood on the bow of the boat, answering questions from a BBC reporter, as a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/france\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"387\">French<\/a> warship passed from close behind and appeared to fire off multiple gunshots.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4665919\/french-navy-fires-live-shots-conservative-mp-chris-philp-english-channel\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>French navy fires live shots as Conservative MP crosses English Channel<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4665586\/iran-threatens-melania-barron-trump\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Iran threatens Melania and Barron Trump in propaganda video<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4663262\/can-european-right-wing-parties-form-coherent-movement\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>The nationalist international: Can Europe\u2019s differing right-wing parties form a coherent movement?<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn the channel today monitoring illegal migrant crossings\u2026 as I was being interviewed by the BBC just now a French warship approached close and fired 17 live rounds behind us. There was no notice or training exercise in place. Felt like warning shots or attempted intimidation,\u201d Philp wrote on X.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the incident, Philp was on the English Channel discussing and looking for small boat migrant crossings, a place and topic that are flash points in the debate over illegal immigration in the U.K. British politicians advocating stronger border policies have pushed France to do more to curb the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/4597913\/hegseth-mass-immigration-normandy-d-day-speech\/\">wave of illegal immigrants<\/a> packing into small boats to cross the English Channel into the U.K.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an email statement to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, the communications office of the French Maritime Prefecture of the English Channel and the North Sea said the Tuesday morning incident was a \u201chandgun firing exercise.\u201d The <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>translated the email statement from the French agency to English using a Google translation tool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn Tuesday, July 28, the public service patrol boat (PSP) <em>Flamant<\/em> carried out a handgun firing exercise off the coast of Cap de Gris-Nez (62). To maintain their high level of operational readiness in the current international context, the units of the French Navy train regularly. Individual combatant training is part of the normal activity of a ship on operations,\u201d the French statement read.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The French agency said the exercise was \u201cunrelated\u201d to the presence of the British ship and that officials did display the proper \u201cregulatory signals\u201d for the exercise, despite the officials from the British boat in Philp\u2019s video saying they did not hear any announcements on the boat\u2019s VHF radio system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe regulatory signals as provided by international standards for this shooting exercise were displayed, and the safety template was respected. This exercise is unrelated to the presence of a British ship in the area, which was out of range of the gunfire. The PSP <em>Flamant<\/em> was not involved in an operation to monitor a migrant boat,\u201d the French statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4663262\/can-european-right-wing-parties-form-coherent-movement\/\">THE NATIONALIST INTERNATIONAL: CAN EUROPE\u2019S DIFFERING RIGHT-WING PARTIES FORM A COHERENT MOVEMENT?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the video posted by Philp, he turns toward the BBC reporter as the gunfire is going off and asks, \u201cIs that a warning shot towards us? I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In late April, France and the U.K. inked a 3-year, multimillion-dollar deal aimed at mitigating the issue by having the U.K. provide funding to the French government to bolster its border patrol measures along its northern coast. Additional funding is dependent on the success of France\u2019s efforts, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/migrants-crossing-channel-france-britain-deal-803215a6a86583c6afb868466851c920\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/migrants-crossing-channel-france-britain-deal-803215a6a86583c6afb868466851c920\">according to the <em>Associated Press<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French navy fires shots near UK MP during Channel interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2636769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP23285398615184.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[40889,83346,65908],"class_list":["post-2636767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-english-channel","tag-french-navy","tag-live-fire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP23285398615184.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636772,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636767\/revisions\/2636772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}