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By Layli Foroudi and Clotaire Achi ROUEN, France (Reuters) - A British fishing trawler impounded by French authorities is the unjustified casualty of a wider political battle between Paris and London over post-Brexit fishing rules, a lawyer for the vessel s captain said on Wednesday. A court in the north-western French city of Rouen is deciding whether the Irish captain, Jondy Ward, should pay a 150,000 euro ($174,000) deposit to have the boat released after French authorities said he was fishing in French waters without a proper licence. He is clearly in the middle of a political game, the lawyer, Mathieu Croix, said outside the courtroom. He said the deposit being sought by France was out of proportion to the value of the cargo of scallops on board the Cornelis Gert Jan when it was seized last week, which he estimated at around 5,000 euros. COMPLETELY DISPROPORTIONATE He said the amount had been inflated in order to make an impression given the dispute over fishing licences since B

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