Spain’s ‘rogue’ border chief is FIRED after frightening Gibraltar together with his passport stamping marketing campaign – CSN Information

SPAIN’S ‘rogue officer’ police chief has lastly been dismissed from his put up due to his newest border shenanigans, in response to stories in Spain.

Chief Inspector David Barrero acquired his marching orders by e mail after he ordered border police to begin stamping the passports of Gibraltarians at 10.30am this morning, el Confidencial report.

This explicit begin time was intentionally designed to guard Spaniards crossing into Gibraltar for work, whereas hurting Gibraltarians heading to Spain for the weekend.

The strict regime lasted round two hours, throughout which lengthy queues grew on each side of the border.

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The Gibraltar authorities mentioned they have been ‘conscious that Spanish authorities started to stamp passports of Gibraltarians on entry to Spain this morning [but it] understands that these measures have been stopped properly inside an hour of being carried out, and due to this fact Gibraltar’s authorities didn’t introduce reciprocal measures on this event.’

In response to El Confidencial: “The La Línea police commissioner, María Jose Martínez, instantly referred to as the chief inspector to order him to go away the border and report back to her places of work. 

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“As soon as there, she additionally requested him to withdraw the order. The chief inspector refused to cancel it until he acquired a written order from his superiors, which they did after they despatched.

“In it they demanded that he cease requiring passports from Gibraltarians who current themselves on the border to enter Spain – or, in different phrases, to violate the Schengen Code. 

“Shortly afterwards he was knowledgeable by e mail of his dismissal as chief inspector with out giving any cause or re-assigning him.”

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His sacking comes not lengthy after the Olive Press reported that Barrero was underneath investigation by the Policia Nacional for checking passports whereas being drunk and out of uniform.

Nevertheless, his superiors could not have arduous the final of Barrero.

The ‘rogue officer’ is predicted to make use of his dismissal to step up his authorized marketing campaign towards the present ‘relaxed’ regime on the Gibraltar border, which allows Gibraltarians with the right IDs to enter Spain with out stamping their passport.

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The police chief has argued that this violates the Schengen Code, which requires passports to be stamped and travellers to leap via onerous hoops.

Now he’ll add costs of coercion and abuse of energy to these of misconduct that he has already levelled at his personal superiors.

In the meantime, sources inside Gibraltar have steered that Barrero’s campaign is a part of a right-wing plot devised by the political opponents of Pedro Sanchez’s left-wing authorities to derail the post-Brexit treaty negotiations.