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HE hottest date on Gi- 1992, the celebration braltar’s annual calenmarks the identity and dar is September indepenwhen it celebrates 10, dence of Gibraltar and gives its residents the chance historic National Day. to come together as one. This year, the Rock its 55th anniversary marks self-governing British as a Plenty to celebrate ry, and thousands of territowill flock to its publicrevellers For Gibraltar, the date of Sepand pri- tember 10 signifies vate spaces to commemorate historic moments. Theseveral this grand occasion. most important is the 1967 The festivities, returning sovin ereignty referendum, where full force after the Covid pan- residents were asked demic, will be held to mates Square, John in Case- vote whether they wanted to Mackin- go under the sovereignty tosh Square and Governor’s of Parade. A tradition started in Continues overleaf
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FACING JAIL By Alex Trelinski & Dilip Kuner
The Olive Press has been monitoring Kearns for nearly a year, as he travelled between his rented villa in Albir,on the Costa Blanca and hotels around Marbella. Kearns - who is well known among members of white nationalist group Patriotic Alternative - has formed various links with at least one leading mafia gang based on the Costa del Sol and in Dubai, we can reveal. We have been monitoring his Telegram channel for the group called ‘Fascist Fitness’, which has 1,800 followers. Many of his videos were filmed in Marbella where a source has told the Olive Press he had links with shadowy figures from the now defunct MTK gym and POST: Kearns in a Twitter message from Dubai boxing stable in
Puerto Banus. This had originally been set up by Irish underworld boss Daniel Kinahan, now sought by the US authorities. The Kinahan clan - Christy Kinahan Snr, Daniel Kinahan and Christopher Kinahan Jr - who are now based in Dubai, have been put on a US sanctions list because of their Irish mafia connections. Social media posts indicate that Kearns has recently visited Dubai. He left Marbella and headed to Alfas del Pi on the Costa Blanca, where he continued to shoot videos for Fascist Fitness. He rented nearby in Albir, we can reveal, with his wife and two children.
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of posting links to documents that encouraged people to carry out terrorism. Violent These included links to the manAccording to UK police, Kearns ifestos of Brenton Tarrant – who published content in the channel killed 51 people in Christchurch, ‘predominantly aimed at building New Zealand – and Norwegian terup hostility against non-white peo- rorist, Anders Breivik. ple and encouraging direct violent The National Court in Spain said: action against them, as part of an “The supposedly criminal material ideology of white supremacy’. was spread through social networks He has also been photographed from his domicile in the province of making fascist salutes. Alicante addressed to subjects who UK detectives believe he was get- were residing in the UK. ting ready for a ‘war between races’ “The messages are all in English and produced a video where he en- and to understand the relevance it couraged the ‘English white to go to is sometimes necessary to have an mosques and synagogues to threat- understanding of the ideology of en immigrants’. the extreme UK right.” On two occasions, he is accused His solicitor has now argued that since all the messages were sent from Spain, he should be tried here as he has Antiques – Jewellers - Pawnbrokers sufficient roots in the country. He added that there ALL AREAS was not enough eviCOVERED dence for extradition. ALL TYPES OF The National Court 4G UNLIMITED disagreed, but said WATCHES AND that should he be INTERNET jailed by a UK court JEWELLERY IN he should be returned IDEAL FOR to Spain to serve his ANY CONDITION STREAMING TV sentence. His defence said in a ALSO statement: “Diatribes IPTV, against immigrants,
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A BRITISH far-right extremist with close links to Marbella and the Costa Blanca is set to be extradited to face terror charges in the UK. The 38-year-old has been identified by the Spanish police as ‘Christopher TK’, also known among farright activists as ‘Charlie Big Potatoes’, or ‘Kris Kearns’. Spain’s National Court has approved the extradition of the Liverpool-born former paratrooper, a decision that must be ratified by the Council of Ministers. He faces up to 15 years in jail after Westminster Magistrates issued a warrant for his arrest.
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