Farmers blocked the entry to the Maghtab landfill from the Coast Road on Saturday morning, in protest at plans to expropriate their arable land.
A number of farmers parked their vehicles at the intersection between the Coast Road and Triq ir-Ramla, which leads up to Magħtab, in a protest aimed to highlight their opposition to Wasteserv’s plan for the area.
Some of the protesters closed off northbound lanes of the Coast Road for a few minutes, but moved the vehicles after a while to allow traffic to flow.
“We want to protect our land. We have been suffering for 40 years, during which they gradually took our land to expand the landfill. Now we have had enough,” a protester explained.
Police urged the farmers to move along, as Saturday morning traffic built up along the major road.
But the protesters, who were joined by Nationalist MPs Edwin Vassallo and Robert Cutajar, instead flipped vegetable crates upside down and sat down on them in protest.
