Gibraltar demands Spain return concrete block of artificial reef taken by Ortega Smith

Place concrete blocks to create a artificial reef and prevent Spanish fishermen from fishing in a historic fishing area next door Gibraltar has created one of the diplomatic crises the most serious in recent times between Spain and the United Kingdom. It was in 2013. The secretary general of Vox, Javier Ortega Smithtook one of the said blocks, which has since been on display at the party headquarters in Madrid. Gibraltar wants it back.

The Chief Minister of the Rock, Fabien Picardoassured this Tuesday, in his speech on the occasion of the “National Day” of Gibraltar, that he had presented a request to Spain to recover it. “This Monday, we filed a claim in Madrid for the return of the reef concrete block that Vox stole from our waters. This block is currently located at the entrance to Vox headquarters. Well, I have news for Vox and for you, my friends. Let’s get it and go home.”

A year after these events, Gibraltar issued a decree Search and capture against Ortega Smith and the courts of the Rock sentenced him to ten years in prison. After meeting him, the secretary general of Vox assured that as soon as he had the opportunity I would do it again, to raise a new flag of Spain “and to demonstrate to the colony of Gibraltar that the fraudulent and criminal business it is engaged in is going to end. “Gibraltar is a hotbed of crime,” he said.