MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Guardia Civil and Gibraltar police physically scuffle in the Rock’s waters
A suspected smuggler was removed from Gibraltar territorial waters by the Spanish Guardia Civil following physical scuffles and a tense stand-off with the Gibraltar police. The incident was described as “very serious” and Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Peter Caruana warned that it could undermine the efforts of the Trilateral Forum to cooperate on law enforcement issues. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“ ... “We were fortunate that this did not get out of hand,” one official said. “Situations like this can easily turn nasty”....”
Sep 30th, 2010 - 01:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0And so it will soon! The Spanish got the man, Gibraltar got the boat ... but there'll be shots next time. Someones going to get hurt!
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Sep 30th, 2010 - 03:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well done Ale ... you can cut and paste!
Sep 30th, 2010 - 04:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Royal Navy will be intervening soon ... then it'll get nasty!
The Spanish version is quite different..... How strange......Who do we believe? Hmmmmm..............
Sep 30th, 2010 - 05:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.diariodecadiz.es/article/provincia/800452/implicado/incidente/denuncia/la/royal/police/por/agredirle/y/llevarse/su/embarcacion.html
Who do we believe?
Sep 30th, 2010 - 06:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Indeed, within Argentina’s “political class” there are two types of lies
regarding the Falklands: the benign and the malign ones.
Spanish types and lies?
I believe the Gibraltarian press which is where I first saw this story. Abaout time the Gib police started locking up trespassing Guardia, that'll sort the cocky bustards :-)
Sep 30th, 2010 - 07:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0From Panorama, the Gibralter 24 hour news agency:
Sep 30th, 2010 - 08:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0“The Commissioner of Police added that ”whoever is feeding the Spanish Press with the stories they are publishing are engaged in a premeditated distortion of the facts and are blatantly lying to manipulate public opinion on this matter.”
The RGP says it has both photographic and video footage in their possession to support the facts as stated in this press statement.
Seems the Spanish and their descendants can't help lying.
I certainly wouldn't believe the Diario de Cadiz Thunk, when the story first broke they were saying it had happened in “aguas españolas”, they quickly amended all their stories to say it happened in “la bahía de Algeciras”.
Sep 30th, 2010 - 09:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I amuses me no end. That bay was was known for centuries as “la bahía de Gibraltar” until Franco arrived on the scene and decided to rewrite history. Sounds familiar no? Puerto Argentino...
The Brits seem to continue their life-long practice of piracy. Well, we'll have blow you out of the Rock and the surrounding waters....... give it some time.
Oct 02nd, 2010 - 10:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Can't remember where I found it but, apparently, Britain has contingency plans for any serious Spanish action against Gibraltar. My recollection is that all the action takes place on Spanish territory. Air attacks, naval attacks, armour and artillery.
Oct 02nd, 2010 - 02:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ ... give it some time ...”
Oct 03rd, 2010 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 03 years short of 300 years .... how long do you need?
Oh, Spain grants Gibraltar to the British Crown by treaty, and in perpetuity, and now that's called “life-long piracy”? Sounds a bit confused to me.
Oct 03rd, 2010 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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