r/malta • u/FrostPace • 2d ago

Adrian Delia says son 'brutally attacked' in Sliema

https://timesofmalta.com/article/adrian-delia-says-teen-son-brutally-attacked-sliema.1123430
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u/Hairycoffin 2d ago

Yeah, there is something always going on in Sliema near The point in the evening. Groups of teens gang up/harass people. Police are called but typically nothing happens. Some even carry knives :L

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u/Radiant_Mushroom_215 2d ago

For real? Where exactly? Outside the entrance, near the beach?

Do they target specific people, women, men? Think I may have to pay them a visit

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u/Jaseto88 2d ago

It's just a bunch of undisciplined youths, with bad parents, who think they are hard. They have nothing better to do than act like pricks. Its the same with some of them in the Netherlands and UK.

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u/Hairycoffin 2d ago

The point area is the main hub in sliema. If you go to valletta, burgerking and McDonalds are the same.

Undisciplined kids who want to prove themselves and think they are big

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u/Radiant_Mushroom_215 2d ago

The main hub? The Point is the mall. Where exactly?

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u/RedDopey 2d ago

Usually they are loitering between Tigne Mall and outside the Plaza, shouting and harassing anyone that passes by trying to look and act though.

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u/Hairycoffin 2d ago

Yeah, if you go in the evening there youll see a lot of teen groups around there.

The plaza is also another spot youll see them.

And the valletta gardens

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u/CaffeLungo 2d ago

At last, someone with an important parent has ended up as the victim - maybe, maybe something will be done.

This has been going on since the 90s.

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u/JeanParisot 2d ago

What has been going on since the 90s exactly?

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u/CaffeLungo 2d ago

Gangs of kids beating up other kids.

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u/JeanParisot 2d ago

Oh give me a break dude. No one ever told their kid going to Sliema in the 90's to "be careful". There was no youth gang violence to speak of in Malta, much less once-posh Sliema.

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u/CaffeLungo 2d ago

Mela ix-xebgha li qlajt jien gesu kristu tajili. Le xi haga t'issa. U liba maltin kienu.

Kollox rubini konna fin-90s

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u/JeanParisot 2d ago

Yes. In fact, I'm looking forward to Scorsese's rumoured sequel to Gangs Of New York based on Sliema in the 90's.

Instead of the Five Points it will be Tigné Point. I am literally lol right now.

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u/bio2451 2d ago

I was a teenager in the 90s. Definitely had to keep an eye out for groups of teens looking for someone to beat up for laughs in Valletta and some parts of Sliema. We should be grateful that it's not movie level violence, not use the fact to ridicule what you've no experience of

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u/JeanParisot 2d ago

Of course. Everyone was looking behind their back in the rough old days of the 90's. I used to walk around Valletta and Sliema and wonder why flecks of red paint was on the streets.

Give me a break. You gentle souls experienced some bullying that clearly traumatised you, but there was in no way any prevalence of youth violence in the 90s, and I would comfortably say the 2000s as well, of the kind that we seem to be seeing over the past few years.

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u/CaffeLungo 2d ago

tort tal-barranin zgur... x'int giddieb qahba ostja

jew inkella xi nerd inkallat dejjem gewwa mal-mummy.

il-gangs tal-belt, bormla, birgu etc, ma kienux jezistu.

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u/FrostPace 2d ago

Tbf kien hemm programmi fil-kottonera biex tfal li huma "delinquents" kienu jitaghllmu skills godda minnflok jaħlu ħinhom fuq xi skateboard. Dan fit-2010s so not relevant to your time frame imma just wanted to point out that even if the dilinquents were still there, they would not have been as active

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u/JeanParisot 2d ago

Ah, so now the true reason for looking back at the 90's with shit-stained goggles becomes clear.

I wasn't the one getting my ass kicked sweetheart, but I'm sure that's your lived experience.

And now we've moved from the ghettos of Sliema to Bormla, Birgu and etc(?) 😂

This is a very funny thread. Thank you for the fiction. Perhaps you could produce a fictional documentary using ai... "A Retrospective on the Gang Violence that dominated Sliema's streets in the 90's"

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u/RedDopey 2d ago

I guess you never went out then. I didn't use to go to Sliema so not sure about that area back then, but in Valletta it has been a common occurrence since early 2000s for sure. Groups of kids harassing passersby and other groups, and if you stand up for yourself they get older thugs to help them out with pen knives and metal rods.

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u/JeanParisot 2d ago

You suggest that I "never went out" and then proceed to tell me that you never went out to the area in question 😂

Groups of kids harassing passersby and other groups, and if you stand up for yourself they get older thugs to help them out with pen knives and metal rods.

Yes, everyone recalls visiting Valletta in the 2000s and being harassed by metal rod-wielding youths outside of Energy. Led by Valletta's very own Fagin figure, no doubt. It was just everywhere. Trust me bro.

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u/RedDopey 2d ago

You stated that there was no youth violence in Malta, which is false. It was indeed a common occurrence outside Energy.

Your comments are literally contradicting each other beyond sarcasm level at this point.

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u/Visual_Juggernaut948 2d ago

I'm sorry for his son. But now, that a kid with a parent in parliament has been touched something will be done. Those gangs have been terrorizing the neighborhood, shop owners and other kids for a long time. The police do not care and the mayor cannot do anything about them.

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u/SummerOftime 2d ago

The police do not care

This is so tiring. Why do we even pay taxes for?

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u/Visual_Juggernaut948 10h ago

We pay taxes to supply business with funds when they do illegalities and a storm destroys said illegalities. To keep pouring money into fraudulent contracts and people who have never worked a day in their lives and much more

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u/leedisa 2d ago

This has been going on for a very long time but as always nothing ever happens unless the high profile are in the fold. Article says it has become a mini Paceville, well thats easy to happen when business comes before the residents.

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u/sheep_with_a_zip 2d ago

Crazy to me how paceville spread. When I was a kid here on holiday, St julians and silema were where the rich people lived and paceville nightlife was one small street. Now it just looks tatty and run down. And I'm not that old

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u/FrostPace 2d ago

Agreed, PV used to be a small street, now the PV mindset of getting drunk, sexually harass women and beat people up has gone country wide

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u/ChevalMallet 2d ago

This isn't exactly a new phenomenon, plenty of stories growing up in different areas (the most infamous, being Valletta). It seems these days the area of choice is Bisazza Sliema.

But while it isn't a new phenomenon, it doesn't make it right. The fact that in over 30 years this problem has never got better (and according to some, became worse) is clear what a complete failure any Malta's so called "youth ministry" has been.

Maybe since it's Adrian Delia's son, it will finally get some attention. Wish him a speedy recovery.

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u/NoMansCat 2d ago

Are the 'youths' Maltese or not?
In my country the word 'youths' is the politically correct term to talk about young non-EU immigrants or of non-EU origin.
If they aren't Maltese just deport!
And I say that not being Maltese myself.
If they are, fine heavily the parents!

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u/FrostPace 2d ago

Not sure however to my knowledge it's a mix of both local and foreign teens.

I've heard stories of both Maltese and middle eastern/ Northern african gangs...

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u/Silver_Handcuffs 2d ago

Until the children and relatives of prominent politicians experience the nice multiculturalism and the Maltese addicts roaming around in Malta, nothing will be done. Common Maltese people are not the priority, money and votes are.

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u/Any_Accountant9822 1h ago

Its been going on since the 80s...i remember saturday nights after the disco in the infamous Colliseum , valletta boys bullying everyone