Video: Spanish Guardia Civil fires at a jet skier off Gibraltar The jet-skier said that he had been trying out a new jet ski, offering rides to friends and family, when the Civil Guard patrol boat approached and fired at him four times. David Lidington, the Minister for Europe, said he met with his Spanish counterpart, Inigo Mendez de Vigo, to "protest in the strongest terms" about the incident. "During an illegal incursion by a Guardia Civil (police) vessel, a Guardia Civil officer fired a weapon," Mr Lidington said in a statement issued after the meeting in Luxembourg. "I made clear that the discharge of a weapon in or near Gibraltar is completely unacceptable," he said.