French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has reiterated France’s outrageous threat to shoot down Israeli aircraft keeping watch over Hizballah arms smuggling: Israeli air violations in Lebanon ‘extremely dangerous’: France.

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie warned that Israeli air violations in Lebanon were “extremely dangerous” and must end in the interest of all parties.

French President Jacques Chirac, speaking from Finland where he was attending a European Union summit, also urged Israel to stop violating Lebanon’s air space.

Alliot-Marie spoke to reporters after holding talks with UN chief Kofi Annan and Jean-Marie Guehenno, the French head of the UN peacekeeping operations, that focused on the Israeli intrusions into Lebanese air space.

“These violations are extremely dangerous because they may be felt as hostile by forces of the coalition that could be brought to retaliate in case of self-defense and it would be a very serious incident,” the French minister said.