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MILITANT Spanish mayor has announced plans to occupy Gibraltar with thousands
of supporters in a one-day protest to claim the disputed territory for Spain.
Communist
Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo made headlines two years ago after organising
Robin Hood-style raids on supermarkets and handouts of the stolen food to poor
families.
Now
the left-wing union he leads is preparing for a mass invasion of the Rock on
August 29.
Gordillo,
mayor of the town of Marinaleda near Seville as well as head of the Andalucian
Workers Union, has claimed they will cross the border peacefully.
But
he has insisted on keeping secret the details on how he and his supporters will
get into Gibraltar, hinting union members could cross by foot and car as well
as arriving by plane and boat before staging their headline-grabbing protest.
Around
2,000 people are expected to take part although the union has 20,000 members
and is hoping for support on the day from Spaniards who work on the Rock or are
visiting as tourists.
Mr Sanchez, who boasts of running his town like a
communist utopia, told a Spanish paper: "We will enter Gibraltar from
different points and then see what we do. "It will be a peaceful
demonstration but a very revindicative one."We have to take advantage of
the surprise factor to be able to achieve our aims."
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