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‘At least the Nazis kept the lights on’: UK blasts France for threat to cut off Jersey’s power French ministers said they would cut off electricity to the Channel Island unless a row over Brexit fishing licences was resolved 5 May 2021 • 2:56pm Jersey has found itself on the frontline of the latest UK-EU battle over fishing.  Credit: Prisma Bildagentur /Getty Images Britain has attacked France for “unacceptable” threats to cut off Jersey’s electricity supplies in a row over Brexit fishing rights with government sources warning that not even the Channel Island’s Nazi occupiers sank so low.  Annick Giradin, the French maritime minister,  said on Tuesday that Paris could shut down three undersea cables that provide Jersey with 95 percent of its electricity if the dispute over fishing licences in its waters were not resolved. 

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