In an unusual event during the celebrations of the eightieth anniversary of its founding Normandy landingAbout a dozen British paratroopers encountered improvised customs due to… Britain’s exit from the European Union. On Wednesday, about three hundred British, American and Belgian paratroopers simulated the jumps made by their predecessors during landing.
When landing near a town SunnervilleIn the Normandy area, British paratroopers packed their parachutes and marched across a field to a makeshift border post, equipped with a desk, a passport scanner and two laptops, and manned by about a half-dozen French border officials, some wearing uniforms from France. The country’s customs agency.
since United kingdom It left the European Union on 1 January 2021, after voting in a referendum on 23 June 2016 and notifying the European Council on 29 March 2017, that border controls in France and the rest of the 27 EU member states would be tightened relative to Britain. Visitors and residents. The British Ministry of Defense confirmed the incident but did not comment on it.
Border control videos of paratroopers in the Normandy field quickly went viral on social media. User comments reflect a divide that has existed for eight years over Britain’s exit from the European UnionSome remain bitter about the UK’s exit from the European Union, while others mock French enthusiasm for the rules, even as the two allies celebrate together the start of the battle that liberated Europe from the EU to the Nazis. British newspaper the sun He described the incident as a “ridiculous moment.”
Thursday, King Charles III Honoring the 22,442 British soldiers killed in the Battle of Normandy and an entire generation who sacrificed and fought. At a memorial ceremony in northern France, the king said that despite the decline in the number of living veterans, “our commitment to remembering what they represent and what they have achieved for all of us can never diminish.”
The celebrations of this anniversary were attended by King Charles III of England Queen Camilla And the Prince GuillermoAnd also the President of France, Emmanuel MacronAnd the President of the United States, Joe Bidenwho participated in honoring veterans.
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