Europe 1 with AFP 20:33 p.m., December 21, 2023

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday denounced the attacks in the Red Sea as an "intolerable threat" from Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. In this region, a crossroads of global maritime transport, "the Houthis' threat to freedom of navigation is intolerable," he told French soldiers deployed in Jordan, praising the "essential role" of the French Navy in recent days to counter it.

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