Graffiti on privately owned properties is usually the responsibility of the owners. In this instance, however, the town hall has relaxed the regulation and instructed Emaya, the municipal services agency, to take care of the removal of the graffiti. The various slogans have of course attracted a great deal of less than positive media interest in the UK, Germany and elsewhere.
Especially given that their messages stated that tourists were not welcome, residents and business associations as well as tourism authorities had expected that they would have been removed much earlier; it is a month since they appeared. The town hall has explained, however, that permission needs to be sought from the Council of Majorca where listed buildings are concerned. This has slowed the whole process down. The town hall and the Council are now working on the drafting of a new bylaw which will give the city authority greater powers to react - and more quickly - should similar episodes occur.
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You can remove the graffiti (eventually) but you can't remove the thoughts or attitudes behind it.
Too long pratting about. The damage has been well and truly done. All Europe has seen it - and the inefficiency in dealing with it. Of course make another law and everything will be ok. Seems to be the answer to all the island's problems now.
I bet they would have already been removed if they had declared that Hila is a wa...er