Graffiti activist Andre Callus meanwhile insisted that the developers could not propose a traffic management assessment based on a “phantom tunnel”. There was no existing plan by anyone – neither the db Group, other developers, nor the government – for such tunnel, he added.

“What will people be taking in return for the public land that they gave up? The answer is shadows… You will be burying people alive, in order to pocket millions of euros,” Mr Callus said.