Is there still Rule of Law in Gibraltar?                          Is there corruption in the local police?

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careful with my direct management as they did not seem to care about how their decisions influenced people's lives. I thought they were very lucky that no one had taken them to court yet because it was quite obvious that they were not worried about laws protecting employees' rights.

40. In the Dutch/Flemish team in the meantime, negative comments about my application for British Citizenship were made and there was a general anti-Gibraltar atmosphere. Jose Luis Aznar was publicly bragging that he was close family of one of the La Linea drug smuggling gangs and knew when drugs launches would arrive. Another time he mentioned that he had applied for a job in the Guardia Civil so he could create queues at the frontier and could always wear a weapon “for the people that annoyed him”. Yousri Amrani frequently used rude language when he had Muslim customers on the chat: “son of a wh*re, I'm going to f*** your daughters and your mother, your religion forbids you to gamble, etc.” This was done shouting and was very annoying when I had customers on the phone who could overhear this. He was also bragging about his kick-boxing training, I found that threatening. Yousri Amrani and Sabir Nouri were keeping files on Muslim customers. I found that strange. “Was it to blackmail them or fund terrorism?” I once thought. Yousri Amrani was from Molenbeek in Brussels and said that he knew some of the Paris terrorists. I checked these people's Facebook profiles and googled them. That's how I found that Hamid Ringelberg was listening to an extremist imam on YouTube. The continuous bullying, all these weird comments and unusual behaviour and the management's inaction made me start to sit away from the team and I closed myself off from them and the rest of the office, concentrating on my work. I later noticed that other colleagues reacted the same way.

41. On 24th July 2017, only two months after I had started in the team, the atmosphere in the team was extremely bad. The Camp Two guys had had a few go's at me early during my shift, followed up by an email from Jose Luis Aznar to team leader Susana Martin that I was “not cooperative” at work and writing about me that "he shuts down to protect himself". I was by this date already so continuously bullied that I indeed closed myself off from the world every time another bullying attempt was made. Jose Luis Aznar's email with a total misrepresentation of the situation forced me to defend myself against the false

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