CARMEN PROETTA – GIBRALTAR WITNESS TO IRA EXECUTIONS

minds of those brought up on ethical values shaken by terrorism, the convenient removal of those values under the guise of social interests, for similar pursuits, makes little sense and only helps to further erode the despair of the young, clinging to flimsy reasons for staying alive. Today, top social experts and writers agree that terrorism is a symptom of an underlying malady which has to addressed before political action can be justly applied. Whilst this is not always possible in the short term, at medium and long term level the results of transparent dialogue on both sides thems often dictate the next course of mutual decisions. What happened in Gibraltar was a clear indication of calculated terrorism of its own variety born of vengeance and lack of genuine intelligence involving thousands of innocent accomplices. Nobody seriously well informed with respect to the event, believes it to be anymore than a hamfisted scenario planned well before its D Day.

Today, a tired but happy Spanish Court interpreter with hundreds of British families grateful for those special privileges and advise received outside line of duty, is grateful to be alive to be able to perform them. Her close family, still a target of a frustrated and sick few, carry on regardless, convinced that their high standards of education, principles and public acceptance, are due to her creative authority. This authority is shared with the same husband/father Maxi who lived those concerns for so long and some say, perhaps, with greater protective intensity.

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