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Spain 'willing' to improve cross-border law enforcement with Gibraltar
Spain has signaled its “full willingness” to improve cross-border law enforcement cooperation with Gibraltar, according to a press report in Spain. 'El Pais' said Madrid was seeking to defuse the fallout from last Saturday’s incident at sea, during which warning shots were fired by officers of the Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera (Customs) who tried to board a local pleasure boat in British waters. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThere was once a time when we had a Prime Minister who would have taken a much more forceful stance on this, which is probably why the Spanish didn't try these stunts then.
Aug 31st, 2015 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Weakness gets you nowhere and Cameron is a very weak leader.
Aaaah Spain, the rapist that says she deserved it.
Aug 31st, 2015 - 08:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0I can't see the laughingly entitled 'PM' of Britain saying anything of any substance unless forced into it.
Aug 31st, 2015 - 11:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is it going to take a death or two bt the bunch of cowards before Camoron acts?
Here are some tips for the spanish over law enforcement.
Aug 31st, 2015 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0(1). Try it sometime, instead of bullying;
(2). Get radios. Or even mobile phones;
(3). Learn the proper methods of contacting the RGP;
(4). Stay out of British Gibraltar Territorial Waters (BGTW);
(5). Try to remember it's a frontier, not a brick wall;
(6). Most smugglers are spanish. Or argie. Or somewhere else in latam.
Don´t be silly , Spain.
Aug 31st, 2015 - 11:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Build bridges with he Brits, don´t fuel pointless arguments that may end really bad.
Don´t be like Argentina.
interesting to read that the Guardia Civil has joint patrols with the Morrocan
Aug 31st, 2015 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0gendarmerie and not the Gibs....why??
@6. Because the GC are wankers. Isn't that obvious?
Aug 31st, 2015 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Everyone in North Africa knows the corrupt authorities in Spain's colonial enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in Morocco use them as smugglers’ transit points for contraband and drug dealers’ conduits for their poisons into Europe. They are a threat to the whole of Europe and prove the sheer hypocrisy of the Madrid regime in its manufactured outrage over Gibraltar. Spanish customs should be policing Ceuta and Melilla and if they don't, it's time the Royal Navy started to cut off this flow of poison from North Africa.
Aug 31st, 2015 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Give Spain an inch, and they will take it as a green light for the lot.
Aug 31st, 2015 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“interesting to read that the Guardia Civil has joint patrols with the Morrocan
Aug 31st, 2015 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0gendarmerie and not the Gibs....why??”
What is more interesting is that illegal immigration and drug smuggling between Moroccoa and Spain can ONLY happen if it transit through waters controlled by Spain or Morocco.
In other words, these joint patrols do not stop it.
But why dwell on that.... hey look Gibraltar!
hey look Gibraltar!
Sep 01st, 2015 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0better, cleaner , free and still remains British.
“ Spain has acknowledged that shots were fired but insists that its officers were acting lawfully in waters considered Spanish by Madrid.”
Sep 02nd, 2015 - 05:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But Margallo considers it too dodgy to test the status of Gibraltar's waters in an international court?
Fairy land again.
But by placeating the UK,
Sep 02nd, 2015 - 06:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0he again not only gets the lion to go back to sleep,
but will do exacly the same by this time next month,
and we will all be back to sqare one, Again.
Spain economically is in the cesspit, so Rajoy and his fascist supporters have to find a distraction. Oh yes, how about Gibraltar, the thorn in the side of the heroic Spanish peninsula? Yawn, yawn, yawn, same old mock outrage and hopeless global cause, just like Kirchner and her Falklands campaign.
Sep 03rd, 2015 - 09:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What did I say earlier this week,
Sep 03rd, 2015 - 11:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0SPANISH OPERATION RAISES QUESTIONS ON COOPERATION
A Spanish customs operation that entered British waters and air space early Wednesday morning has prompted the Gibraltar Government to question the commitment given by Spain to step up law enforcement cooperation.
http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=36447
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