Police will be charging the person who was responsible for spraying red arrows on protected rubble walls at Majjistral Nature Park.
On Wednesday a Foreign Travel Agency admitted to spraying illegal red arrows on protected rubble walls across Malta and Gozo. The group had bought the cans locally, being informed that the spray was biodegradable. The Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) together with the Police Force had given the group by Friday to remove the signs.
According to Police and Environment and Resources Authority (ERA), inspections which were carried out on Wednesday afternoon and early Thursday morning showed that the spray painted markings were not removed as was agreed between the organisers and ERA.
The Travel Agency will hence be taken to court after their failed attempt at removing the red paint.
Last week Majjistral Nature and History Park had noted a number of arrows sprayed in red paint on protected rubble walls. The Park said that the paint is hazardous for wildlife and removing such markings can only be done by using even more chemicals, thus adding more damage.
On Wednesday morning, police raided the hotel room of the travel agency, Nature Extreme Development (NED), which organised a ‘Malta & Gozo Island Ultra-Trail’ from the 22nd to the 29th August 2020.
The police stopped the group this morning in Ghajn Tuffieha, where the group were preparing for a trail run. The police then raided the travel agency’s hotel rooms and the red spray cans were found.
The group admitted that they had sprayed the red arrows and had bought the cans locally, being informed that the spray was biodegradable.