Palma City Council is hiring a company to get clean, restore and maintain what’s left of the city wall and get rid of the weeds and graffiti.
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Graffiti to be removed from Palma city wall
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Graffiti is visual pollution and is a crime against the environment.The criminals who spray graffiti often work out their designs on paper, and workbooks in local colleges and schools will be awash with preliminary graffiti ‘designs’.Sales and possession in public of spray paint need to be regulated as strictly knife sales and possession, with cans being traceable to the point of sale.It is easy to identify the offenders and prosecute them. Their families and friends know who they are. Name, shame and punish severely anyone who thinks it clever to inflict their hideous scrawlings on our beautiful islands.
there are many highly effective anti-graffiti products available, but i doubt the contractors will use them.
There should be an age limit set on the sale of spray paints. ID and NIE numbers should be required to purchase spray paint so there is the ability to trace the activity of those using spray paint and charge anyone who grafitis the cost of clean up !!
There are legitimate options open to all for protesting. Graffiti is not one of those. It therefore needs removing immediately whatever the cost BUT equally important is the prosecution of offenders. It is worth spending on extra plain-clothes enforcement to catch people. Then make them spend their time getting rid of their mess under strict supervision. Add some swingeing fines 8nto the mix too. If not sorted, Palma will look deeply unpleasant.