South Malta’s former biggest hotel has been reduced to a dangerous shell, with parts of the publicly accessible structure collapsing due to weather damage.

The four-star Jerma Palace hotel, once owned by a Libyan state company and leased and operated by the Corinthia Group, closed down in March 2007 after opening in 1982 and has since been stripped bare.

It is now owned by contractors Jeffrey and Peter Montebello, who landed a succession of large projects, from A3 towers near the Addolorata Cemetery in Paola, to the Belmonte Heights apartment block in Sliema and the Xemxija Heights project. Questions sent to the Montebellos on Thursday have not been answered.

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