Video of 'Gibraltar war' school play outrages internet users and the British press
Sunday, September 29, 2013 @ 12:10 PM
AT LEAST two British newspapers have heavily criticised a play acted out by children in a school in Alfajarín (Zaragoza province) in which Spain 'invades' Gibraltar.
Some of the children – mostly young teenagers – play stereotypical Gibraltarians dressed in shorts, socks and sandals, carrying boxes of contraband cigarettes, carrying the Union Jack and singing the British national anthem.
Next, the song Spanish bombs by The Clash begins to play as other children dressed in camouflage-print clothing and carrying a huge banner reading Gibraltar español ('Spanish Gibraltar') appear on stage as well as toy guns, carried on in an Army tank.
They surround the sock-and-sandal brigade and open fire, and the Brits fall to the ground as though they are dead.
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