Is this the start of tit-for-tat border chaos on the Rock? ‘Rogue’ Spanish officer starts unilaterally stamping passports before Gibraltar ‘takes cross-border workers hostage’ [Video]

THE frontier between Spain and the Rock got its first taste of the disruption to come after Spain ‘unilaterally’ started stamping Gibraltar passports.

The move led to tit-for-tat reciprocal measures, provoking snaking queues of both cars and pedestrians stretching back into La Linea at the border this morning during rush hour.

It forced hundreds of workers who had not brought their passports to turn back, either to fetch it or work from home if they could.

As of 11.30am today (Friday), the old system has been restored, the Gibraltar government reports.

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The current border regime means that Gibraltar citizens with a red ID card can pass through without having their passports stamped.

But the Gibraltar government has reported that a new instruction was given …