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Gibraltar Government Takes Spain's Far-Right Vox Party to Court for Inciting
Hatred

Reuters

   MADRID - The government of Gibraltar has filed a criminal complaint
   against four leaders of Spain's far-right Vox party for "inciting
   hatred against the people of Gibraltar," the chief minister of the
   British overseas territory said on Wednesday.

   Vox, which surged to become Spain's third-largest party after winning
   52 parliamentary seats in November's general election, campaigned on a
   fiercely nationalist platform that includes Gibraltar's return to
   Spanish control.

   Gibraltar's government accused the party of publishing a series of
   statements that disparaged residents and which were "designed to create
   an atmosphere of hatred among Spaniards towards Gibraltarians," it said
   in statement.

   Chief Minister Fabian Picardo told Gibraltar's Parliament that the
   complaints stemmed from statements and social media posts in which the
   four Vox leaders referred to the territory as a "leech," a "parasite"
   and a "den of money launderers," local newspaper Gibraltar Chronicle
   reported.

   "It is the language used in the 1930s against the Jews in Germany and
   in the Balkans in the 90s," Picardo told parliament on Wednesday,
   according to the Gibraltar Chronicle.

   Vox did not immediately return a request for comment.

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