British invaded in 2002 in Spain

london/gibraltar - British marines invaded during an exercise in Gibraltar in 2002 accidentally Spain. This said, the then head of the British Navy Alan West. He spoke following the rising tensions on the position of the British Gibraltar peninsula if London steps out of the European Union. Spain wants Gibraltar back more than three hundred years, and smells of the United Kingdom and Gibraltar European Union membership referendum opportunities.

West said that landing exercises in a group of Marines was lost in bad weather. They appeared to have landed on a Spanish beach. West received a call from the lost commander who said he feared that the Spaniards had noticed the incident. A few fishermen being the soldiers that they were in Spain. The British turned quickly back to their landing craft and left, the newspaper The Independent reported Tuesday.

They appeared to have landed on a beach in the town bordering Gibraltar La Línea de la Concepción. The mayor had also noticed: 'They landed on our shores to overwhelm a suspected enemy commando tactics, but we did manage to keep on the beach,' said former mayor Juan Carlos Juárez to Spanish media.