CAREFUL WALKING OVER THE BORDER WITH ANYTHING EXPENSIVE BOUGHT IN GIB - I bought a gift yesterday and tried to bring it back home to La Linea, and was told I needed to pay €100 tax on it. When I questioned it they confiscated my passport and threatened to confiscate the gift. So I said I would just bring the item back to Gib and return it. They weren’t too happy with this idea but I managed to walk past the Spanish passport control back into Gib. 30 minutes later I came back (without the gift) and asked them to give me my passport back - they said I had to bring the item back and give it to them, and threatened numerous times to arrest me. Once they realised I didn’t have it anymore they still demanded I pay them €100 as a ‘police obstruction fine.’ A few work colleagues crossing the border tried to get involved as I was getting pushed about and threatened, and one got pulled aside and searched. All this happened in the customs hut on the Spanish side. Eventually I got pulled into a side room, kicked by them in the ribs and hit in the back of the head with the handcuffs. They forced me to pay €100 to get my passport back which at that stage I had no choice to do. I was then allowed walk out. And you thought the border queue was a problem… Like · · Unfollow Post · 3 hours ago
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:50:09 +0000
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