Protest over Coastal department ‘land grab'

MURO
FURIOUS residents and businesses poured out onto the beaches of Muro yesterday to protest at new boundaries of publicly owned land being set by Central Government's Coastal department.

Some 500 people representing hoteliers, residents and tourist business associations in the municipality formed a solid wall of protest against the department's decision to mark off a further 2 million square metres of coastal land, over and above that which the government had originally claimed for public use in 1989.

The lobby which raised its voice yesterday said it would fight to establish a “fairer” distribution of public land and pointed out that Muro had had much more territory “seized” by the government than had been the case in the neighbouring municipality of Can Picafort.