Anger mounts at Gibraltar border as Christmas shoppers left queuing for hours to return to Spain "People had left their vehicles and were clinging onto the fence at the border, showing a lot of anger and shouting abuse at the Spanish police," he said. The vast majority were Spanish people who had spent the day in Gibraltar and were trying to get home. Monday was a bank holiday for the region of Andalusia and many Spaniards had travelled into Gibraltar for Christmas shopping. "We came to spend the day here and now they won't let us out," one frustrated Malaga resident told Spanish newspaper El Mundo. We have been in the queue for four hours and still have a two-hour drive to get home. "There are women and children standing out in the cold for hours," another Spaniard complained. The government is only hurting its own people with these controls. Sandra Andrades, a resident of La Linea posted a video of angry crowds at the border. Tensions are running too high..is it normal to keep people waiting for four hours in these queues? Suffering the cold? And for children to suffer this? The Spanish government has no shame, no morality. They say they are doing their job and others support these queues but every day brings me more disgust," she wrote on her facebook page. The queues were again mounting on Tuesday morning. "The problem will come one day when people become so angry that they stampede the border," warned Chief Inspector Yates. So far we have managed to avoid that. To coincide with International Human Rights Day, a protest from cross-border groups was planned for Tuesday evening at 7pm to protest the "persistent violation of human rights" by Spanish authorities at the frontier. Britain has made repeated complaints about the stringent checks arguing that they are "politically motivated and disproportional" but which Spain insists are necessary to combat tobacco smuggling.