Encroaching beyond the limit

A couple of restaurant owners at Bay Square in Buġibba are flagrantly ignoring the Land Department's warnings not to set up tables and chairs beyond the limit as set by the government authority.

One of these is in fact occupying, for catering use, a space tenfold of what he should be using and boasting at the same time that no one in authority is capable of controlling him.

Recently, neighbouring restaurateurs came to blows with this individual after long suffering illegal advantage which is causing harm to their own businesses. Such demonstrations in full view of tourists does a lot of harm to this industry. But how long can these suffering individuals continue in this situation seeing that the government authority by its inaction is siding with those who are contravening the law, before they are forced to take the law into their own hands?

Both Mario De Marco and Jason Azzopardi should look into the matter to avoid repercussions mainly due to omissions of duty by those who should have not permitted these illegal infringements, especially after having received photographic evidence ages ago.