Gibraltar Leader Gets Twitter Death Threats

Death threats have been made against the chief minister of Gibraltar and his family during the continuing row with Spain over border controls.

Fabian Picardo revealed he had been abused by Spanish Twitter trolls because of his criticism of the Madrid government's actions, which have led to long delays at the border between Spain and Gibraltar.

He also claimed that Spanish people living near Gibraltar support the British Overseas Territory rather than their own government.

Mr Picardo, who is chief politician in the enclave of around 29,000 people, said: "I think social media is a great thing, but it also has a very negative aspect to it, which is people can use the cloak of anonymity to insult people and to say things that reasonable human beings don't say about each other.

"I have had some extreme reactions to things I say. I have even had death threats against my family by Twitter."

Asked where they came from, he said: "From Spain, in Spanish."

Mr Picardo also said he was in frequent 'fluid' contact with local politicians in La Linea and other areas where the more than 4,000 Spaniards who work in the peninsula live.

Gibraltar chief minister Fabian Picardo says he has received death threats

Blaming the problems on the government in Madrid, he said locals are supportive of Gibraltar as an "economic engine" and want to see an easing of the border restrictions.

He said: "I have no contact with Madrid, but I have a lot of fluid contact with mayors in La Linea and other municipalities in the area who are very concerned about the effect the controls being imposed by Madrid could have on the working lives of people who come in and out of Gibraltar every day."

The Foreign Office is lodging a formal complaint with Spain over the latest "unacceptable" delays at the border with Gibraltar.

Officials are still considering a legal challenge to Spain over its imposition of additional border controls in the latest diplomatic spat between the two countries over the territory.

The Spanish action followed the construction by the Gibraltar authorities of an artificial reef which Madrid claims is designed to ruin fishing in the area.

The centre-right Popular Party government of Mariano Rajoy, which is embroiled in a corruption row, responded by beefing up border controls and suggesting that a fee could be imposed on every vehicle entering or leaving the outpost through its fenced border with Spain.

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