France accused Australia in SMS-message plum of French President Emmanuel Macgron, who were addressed to the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The messages merged into the network should have come to the first in lie regarding the transaction on submarines with the French Consortium of the Naval Group, which was broken by Canberra. Reports about it France 24.
Australian media, acquainted with the correspondence, said: Macron knew that the Australian authorities plan to break the deal, two days before the official announcement. “I have to prepare for good or bad news about our submarine contracts?” – he wrote in Morrison’s message. At the same time, Macron himself repeatedly insisted that what happened was a surprise.
Australia ruined a contract with France to build a submarine with a total of 66 billion dollars after the signing of a new partnership in the field of defense and security between it, the United States and the United Kingdom. The Union involves the creation of nuclear submarines for Australia Navy for 18 months. The contract was called Aukus (Australia, United Kingdom, USA).
In Paris, such actions were called “Blowing in the back.”