Briefly: French invade
FRENCH royalists made a symbolic attempt to reclaim Ecrehou, a rocky outcrop off the Channel Island of Jersey. More than 200 fishermen, activists and their families landed on the rock, held a Catholic mass and raised the Normandy flag. Police stopped five men from pulling down the Union Jack.
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