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2018

Have your say: 'Your country floods after 20 minutes of rain'

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The first major autumn downpour pounded Malta on Tuesday, and with it came the flooding to parts of the island's road network.
Daniele Baraggioli, an Italian man living in Malta, took to Facebook to air his frustration, saying he could not understand how the thousands he paid in taxes for public infrastructure could not sustain a few minutes of rain.
But a video he uploaded triggered a torrential downpour of comments – most of which had one common message: "put up with it, or go back to your country".
In the video, uploaded onto Maltese talk shop The Salott, Mr Baraggioli insists over development without adequate planning was a recipe for disaster.

"€2 million yachts filled the marinas, and €1 million apartments lined Sliema's streets, but after a bit of rain, traffic grinds to a halt, sewage overflows, and pavements are submerged."
Malta cannot compete with Monaco, he says, when the island cannot even divert rain water from the Sliema Ferries to the sea just a few metres away.
Watch: Heavy rain stalls cars in various localities
"I get told to go back to my country. Bloody hell, I pay taxes here and everything. The problem isn’t going to be mine or yours, it is going to be our...















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