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“Get Out of Here,” Yells French Mayor as Royal Caribbean Ignores Port Ban
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While he had signed a decree prohibiting the huge cruise ships in Nice in January, the president of the Metropole, Christian Estrosi, took off on 3 July against a ship anchored in the bay of Villefranche-sur-Mer carrying more than 3,000 people. But no one received him on board.
“Get Out of Here,” Yells French Mayor as Royal Caribbean Ignores Port Ban
The outspoken Mayor of Nice and President of the region took to the water to personally confront the master and an officer of Royal Caribbean International’s Voyager of the Seas for breaking the region’s new ban on large cruise ships. Aboard a police boat with a television news crew, Mayor Christian Estrosi was denied boarding and ignored by the officers, prompting him to yell “Get lost,” “Get out of here,” and “You are nobody,” at the ship. Roy…
Wishing to enforce the new rules imposed by the Métropole Nice-Côte d'Azur, the mayor of Nice went to the collision to try to discuss with the team of a ship in violation.
Claiming to defend the oceans, the mayor of Nice attacked the cruise ship to leave the harbour this Thursday 3 July. Without success, the Maritime Union 06 even denouncing a "attempt of illegal boarding".
Wishing to enforce new rules imposed by the Métropole Nice-Côte d'Azur on cruise ships, the elected one has tried to discuss with a ship in violation.
Royal Caribbean Ship Angers Mayor After Cruise Limits Begin
It’s not every day you see a mayor take to the seas to challenge a massive cruise ship. But a new video has surfaced showing just that off the coast of France. Christian Estrosi, major of Nice, France, and president of the Nice-Côte d’Azur Metropolis, boarded a police boat on July 3, 2025, to confront the captain of Royal Caribbean’s 137,276-gross-ton Voyager of the Seas. However, the crew refused to allow the mayor to embark the vessel, which h…
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