article_snippet.sent: The number plate that got Jeremy Clarkson and Jeremy Clarkson former Top Gear colleagues harangued out of Argentina was a direct reference to Falklands War, a judge has ruled.
article_snippet.sent: While BBC BBC claimed the plate, which read H982 FKL, was an 'unhappy coincidence', Maria Cristina Barrionuevo said the BBC claimed were deliberately 'provoking people' when the BBC claimed drove it through Falklands War last year.
article_snippet.sent: A judge has ruled the controversial number plate that led to Jeremy Clarkson and A judge Top Gear colleagues being thrown out of Argentina was a deliberate reference to Falklands War .
article_snippet.sent: A village of Falklands War veterans were accused of deliberately inciting conflict with the plate, an alleged reference to Falklands War.
article_snippet.sent: Afterwards producers removed the plate, an alleged reference to the 1982 Falklands War and replaced the plate, an alleged reference to the 1982 Falklands War with another.
article_snippet.sent: Investigating whether this was illegal, Mrs Barrionuevo said: 'this should be understood that this is not up to Mrs Barrionuevo to investigate or evaluate the decision - arrogant and disrepectful to say the least - by the Top Gear production team to enter Falklands War with one or more Malvinas-referenced number plates. '
article_snippet.sent: Clarkson (pictured this week) producer, Andy Wilman (right), who announced Clarkson (pictured this week) resignation on Wednesday, denied deliberately using the plate, an alleged reference to the 1982 Falklands War . '
article_snippet.sent: Clarkson (pictured this week) added: 'It led Concluding Top Gear chiefs to remove the plate, an alleged reference to the 1982 Falklands War and replace the plate, an alleged reference to the 1982 Falklands War with another which in principle wouldn't have negative connotations with the aim of ending the main focus of conflict and avoiding violent reactions by locals which indeed ended up taking place. '
article_snippet.sent: A local councillor in Ushuaia later claimed the digits 269 on the number plate of the Ford Mustang Richard Hammond had driven were close to the 255 Britons killed during the war - and the numbers 646 on James May’s Lotus could be taken as a reference to the 649 Argentinian casualties.
article_snippet.sent: The furore sparked a diplomatic incident with Argentina’s ambassador Alicia Castro calling the H982 plate 'malicious mockery' of those who fought in the 1982 Falklands War.
highlights_snippet.sent: Local veterans considered it a reference to the bloody 1982 Falklands War .
  