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Pirate flag set flying over Alicante Castle
By m.p. - Jan 30, 2008 - 8:09 PM
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The early birds in Alicante would have been met with a rather unexpected sight on Tuesday morning, if they had looked up Mount Benacantil to the city’s most famous and most impressive landmark, to see the flag of Spain was no longer flying atop the Castillo de Santa Bárbara. A pirate flag had been set in its place overnight.
Información newspaper said it was put there by a group of protestors calling themselves Luther Blissett, the name of a former England striker which has bizarrely been adopted by groups of artists and anarchists since the mid 1990s. Their aim in removing the Spanish flag, they said, was to show the ‘the true banner of the leaders of this territory. The pirate flag.’
They spoke of corrupt politicians, property speculation, unnecessary infrastructure, unsustainable transport and nepotism.
Staff at the castle hoisted up a replacement flag of Spain as soon as they realised the change.
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