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MALTESE AUTHORITIES HAVE arrested eight people in connection with the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced the arrests in a statement this morning.
Galizia (53) was killed on Monday 16 October in a car bomb attack.
She had been called a “one-woman Wikileaks” and had used her widely-read blog to make a series of detailed allegations of corruption in Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s inner circle, some based on the Panama Papers data leak.
Muscat said police and the military were involved in an operation following a weeks-long investigation into the high-profile murder.
“During this operation, 8 persons were arrested,” the statement said, adding that they faced “reasonable suspicion in connection with involvement in the murder” of Galizia.
All the suspects were Maltese nationals, Muscat’s statement added.
After her death, Galizia’s family accused Muscat of creating a culture of impunity that turned Malta into a “mafia island”.
Galizia was buried on 3 November, and her family asked Muscat, Malta’s president and international media to stay away from the funeral.
Eight of the world’s largest news organisations have urged the European Commission to probe the murder, saying it could not be allowed to achieve the “clear objective of silencing her investigation into corruption at the highest levels in Malta”.
Signatories include James Harding, the director of news and current affairs at the BBC, Jerome Fenoglio, director of Le Monde, Katharine Viner, the editor-in-chief of the Guardian and Dean Baquet, New York Times executive editor.
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This case should be an awakening for those that defend the “State” at all costs, I really hope that this case will conclude. With peace for her family and justice for this brave journalist
The EU inspectors came back from Malta last week and are deeply concerned by a perception of a lack of a rule of law. They will now be audited to determine whether there is a lack of a rule of law on the island. Conveniently these arrests are made the following week; the Prime Minister was her biggest enemy and it would appear that organised crime has taken over elements of the Maltese government. It’s a really interesting and scary story.
Any statement by our prime minister should be taken with a bucketful of salt . This stinks of a frame-up.
The European Mafia Commission urged to “probe the murder.”….now that’s a joke.
@methodical2020: __ Never heard of it, is it new?
If this had been one of the darlings of the right in journalism. there would have been hell to pay. but it’s just someone stirring things up against the establishment. move on.
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