An MP on Wednesday slammed indecency on Malta’s streets and complained that nothing was being done about it.
“I saw it with my own eyes. People wearing tangas on Rudolph street, Sliema, right next to the police station, and nobody tells them anything,” Nationalist MP Graziella Attard Previ told parliament.
She said many people had been complaining to her about the lack of public decency in Sliema, St Julians and Swieqi and how nobody was doing anything about it.
She also recounted an incident where she bumped into two “fit” young men outside parliament who were only wearing very short shorts.
“We have a situation where we’re seeing a lot of people, mostly foreigners, who are more often than not more undressed than dressed. As if it’s nothing at all,” Attard Previ said.
While she condemned anyone walking on the street shirtless or with a “bikini that barely covers two inches of her body”, she also condemned the mentality that anything goes.
“Public indecency is upsetting many Maltese. Many people are feeling raped in their own country,” Attard Previ said.
Such an “anything goes” mentality was pushing away quality tourists, she argued.
Last month, the Sliema local council held a discussion about where to draw the line on the term “decent clothing,” as members deliberated on the wording of signs instructing people to dress appropriately.
Last year, a lifetime resident of Sliema placed around 60 small signs around the town with the message “No swimwear on our streets”.