Opposition leader Bernard Grech had a strong message about tomorrow’s vigil for Jean Paul Sofia.

“If you can attend, but do not show up, you are failing your country,” he said in an interview on Sunday.

“If you are not there, you are failing your family. If you are not there tomorrow, you will be failing his family, his mother Isabelle, and his father, John. We need to stand together tomorrow, as a nation, regardless of the colour blue or red, and show that we cannot let this country continue to go downhill and that we want a public inquiry.”

Grech questioned what Prime Minister Robert Abela is hiding by voting down a motion to launch a public inquiry into the death of Jean Paul Sofia, the 20-year-old who died when a Kordin building collapsed.

On Thursday, 40 Labour MPs unanimously voted against opening a public inquiry, triggering a fiery backlash from the nation.

“You should have taken on the father figure role for our nation, not that of a lawyer,” Grech said addressing Abela during a NET FM interview.

“What are you hiding? Who are you protecting?… Are you trying to hide the truth about how the structure was built?”

To add to injury, the collapsed Kordin building which killed Jean Paul Sofia in December was in breach of its contractual conditions before the fatal tragedy.

INDIS, a government body, which allocated the site to developers Schembri and Buhagiar, has claimed that the concession agreement stipulated that works should have been carried out within 18 months after permits were issued in April 2020.

The works were still incomplete when it collapsed and killed Sofia in December 2022. It was closed off under orders of the magistrate involved in the inquiry.

A vigil in his honour will be held tomorrow in front of the Prime Minister’s office at 8pm.

Everyone is asked to bring a candle.

Watch this interview of Isabelle Bonnici ahead of tomorrow’s vigil. 

Cover photo: Net News