Moviment Graffitti protested today that despite the pre-election controversy over the granting of a development permit for a supermarket outside a development zone in Safi, that supermarket had now been completed and was operating.

“When the permit was issued, many environmental organisations expressed their anger at this decision. It was then established by the auditor of MEPA that this permit should not have been granted and that the process was carried out in a totally irregular manner. The same board which issued this permit had to resign after it was discovered that in another case there were also gross irregularities in the issuing of a permit.

"However, unbelievably, no one lifted a finger to revoke the permit for this huge supermarket. Today, this supermarket is completed and has started operating, with the result that a huge tract of agricultural land has been forever destroyed,” Moviment Graffitti said.

It said this was just one case example of the destruction that is being carried out to the Maltese environment because of the interests of a few.