Nov 21 - Picardo Radio 4 Statement Taken Out of Context by Spanish Media
The Government of Gibraltar has today corrected the misunderstanding made by certain Spanish media outlets reporting on the Chief Minister’s statements on yesterday’s BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme. They note that some media outlets have significantly altered the meaning and intention of Mr Picardo’s statements, taking them out of context.
For example Europa Press, claimed, ‘Picardo has warned of the risk that Guardia Civil patrols continue ‘their incursions into BGTW without advance warning and, when coming in from the sun, remaining unidentifiable for those carrying out provisioning of British or American vessels.’
The Defender of Gibraltar this morning attended the Magistrates Court in support of Julio Pons, of the Voice of Gibraltar Group, as he answered to charges relating to yesterday’s incident at the Frontier that saw him cut the rope, holding up the EU Flag.
The GSD Opposition condemns the recent queues in the strongest possible terms. It is in this unhappy and worrying context that the GSD Opposition comments on the European Commission's decision of last Friday as it promised to do last week. The GSD continues to take a very serious view of the Commission's failure to condemn the clearly politically driven nature of Spain's recent measures at the frontier. 
Two local juveniles aged 17 and 16 have been arrested and charged following a number of burglaries in commercial and Government premises during the month of November. The two young men were jointly charged with one count of burglary in respect of a burglary on the 20th November at commercial premises on Devil’s Tower Road.
