Send Them Back To Syria: PN MPs Call For Deportation Of All Ħamrun Street Fighters
Everyone who was involved in this week’s major street fight in Ħamrun should be deported to Syria, PN MPs Joe Giglio and Alex Borg have insisted.
Giglio, the PN’s spokesperson for home affairs, gave his two cents under a Lovin Malta article reporting on how two of the people involved in the fight will be charged with assault and 11 will be charged with breaching the public peace.
“They should all be deported,” he said, while expressing his agreement that more of the people involved in the fight (there were around 25 in total) should have faced charges too.
Earlier today, Giglio issued a statement on behalf of the PN with the following six proposals to improve national security.
1. Improve the conditions of police officers so they can be truly effective in fighting crime. The police force is demotivated, overworked, overstretched and underpaid, and it cannot go on like this.
2. Foreigners who break the law should be immediately deported and shouldn’t be allowed to re-enter Malta. Identity Malta is asleep on this issue.
3. Law enforcement agencies should be strengthened to improve discipline across the board.
4. The army should have a more active role to play in law enforcement.
5. The courts need more resources, and the Criminal Code, which was written in 1854, should be rewritten so that it makes sense in this day and age.
6. End the practice of excess government employment, which leaves the private sector reliant on bringing foreign workers with an unknown background.
Meanwhile Borg, the PN’s spokesperson for Gozo, said the courts should quickly deport everyone involved in the Ħamrun fight back to Syria “as a sign of respect towards the police and the people of Malta”.
Earlier, Borg had expressed solidarity with the police officers who were on duty to calm down the fight and said they should be properly armed to deal with these eventualities.
“Our country isn’t what it used to be and you must understand that these officers need to be armed to prepare for any eventuality,” he said in an open letter to Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri and Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa.
“Also try and understand that two police officers cannot stop a group fight, the likes of which we are witnessing practically everyday.”
“What happened in Ħamrun is happening in Gozo too, as I’ve been stressing time and time again. Now when a police officer suffers serious injuries or dies, we can feel sorry for them and pledge to do our utmost against the assailants.”
“I don’t like street protests but stop treating these officers like trash because the line has well and truly been crossed now. I don’t want any of our children to get hurt because police officers aren’t being offered enough security.”
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