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 Daily news from the Canaries and the islands' biggest English language newspaper on-line victims write to gordon brown Soldiers’ holiday rampage Restaurant customers who were caught up in an unprovoked attack by a group of eight British soldiers on holiday in Lanzarote have written a letter to Gordon Brown asking him to take up the incident with Army chiefs.  The customers and staff have published an open letter on the Internet to the British Prime Minister urging him to step in to make sure the soldiers are punished. Accompanying their letter with horrific pictures of the injuries, the customers called on Mr Brown to review the training methods used in the Army if they are to be put into practice on innocent people: “Your highly trained and perfectly coordinated soldiers wrecked a restaurant and ran off after their bloody assault. As a civilian like us, we call on you to keep better control of your Armed Forces to ensure that when they go on holiday to another country they do not use their training to attack defenceless civilians. We also ask you to personally contact their Unit (your Consulate knows who they are) and investigate the type of training these men have received. It is appropriate for your soldiers to be trained as human weapons to protect the civilian population, but we cannot tolerate their presence on our island if, like so many of your compatriots, they come here to cause damage, get drunk and annoy others. We have been physically hurt by the actions of your soldiers but that is nothing compared to the psychological suffering of the children and elderly people in the restaurant who had to witness such a bloody spectacle”. The letter, signed by the ‘Vaca Loca Restaurant victims’, ends with ironic congratulations to the Prime Minister for having trained ‘such highly skilled professionals whose ‘team work’ and ability to dish out violence was very much in evidence in their brutal assault’. Chef Martín Vessecchia, who needed several stitches for the head and facial injuries sustained during the attack, described the soldiers as ‘drunk but totally in control of what they were doing. They were on automatic pilot, they did not care who they hit’. The Vaca Loca’s owner, Hernán Martín, who had to close temporarily to repair the damage caused, said he was shocked at the level of violence used and would do everything in his power to make sure the soldiers are not allowed to return home without punishment. The Ministry of Defence has refused to release any details of the incident, saying it had ‘a duty of care to uphold and it would be highly inappropriate to give any personal details’. By Karl McLaughlin This article appears in the print edition 610 of Island Connections
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