Today in 1994, 29 years ago: In the context of the War of the Bonito, Spanish fishermen take the French boat La Gabrielle, which had illegal fishing nets and protected cetacean species inside, and which had been abandoned due to the risk of sinking. The Spanish fleet takes the ship to the port of Burela, Spain, to denounce these irregularities; in an action that the French government tried to discredit and described as kidnapping.

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