PN MP Karol Aquilina Writes To Police Commissioner Over Comments Calling To Have Him Beaten Up ‘Once And For All’
Nationalist Party (PN) MP Karol Aquilina and his brother civil society group Repubblika president Robert Aquilina have written to Commissioner of Police Angelo Gafa to report an incident of hate speech against them.
The report was filed after a man, Sandro Farrugia, commented on a Facebook post by Labour MP Rosianne Cutajar.
Farrugia left his own comment beneath the post, saying that he believed the Aquilina brothers should receive a beating “as deserved”. Farrugia’s comments are likely to constitute a case of incitement of violence and hate towards the pair.
Farrugia also went on to liken the brothers to horses claiming that, “that’s what they [properly] are”.
Such comments allude to an incitement of violence and hate towards Aquilina, who is an outspoken Nationalist MP.
The brothers both said they would not waiver in the face of such threats and violence and that they would continue to “fulfil their duty in order to expose the truth and deliver justice for the people”.
This is not the first time Karol Aquilina has received threats of the sort. Last February, Aquilina was on the receiving end of comments calling for him to be publicly hanged and for him to be tied to “to the statue of [his hometown Siggiewi’s] San Nikola where every passer-by might stick a sewing needle into him.”
Cauchi was eventually forced to apologise to Aquilina and was conditionally discharged. Aquilina had said that he is used to certain comments being passed his way, however, Cauchi’s comment were a step too far and could lead others to “react to such incitement”.
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