Caruana Galizia’s Son: ‘We Are At War With The Government Over My Mother’s Murder’
Paul Caruana Galizia (second from right) addresses the Hay Literary Festival
One of the sons of assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia said it feels like his family is at war with the Maltese government over their quest to find out who murdered his mother.
“It is a war,” Paul Caruana Galizia said at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales. “It really should not be like this, but we can’t rely on the investigation to be run properly. We just can’t sit back and think that things are moving.”
Caruana Galizia warned that threats and misinformation against the family have been rife in the past few months, including a rumour that his brother Matthew had actually orchestrated his mother’s killing himself.
He also denounced as “nonsense” suggestions that his mother was investigating criminal gangs – such as the three men who have been charged with her murder – and not the government.
Caruana Galizia was joined on stage by The Shift News editor Caroline Muscat, who warned the audience that the Maltese government is intimidating and threatening journalists who investigate and write about stories it doesn’t like.
“The only truth in Malta is that of the government,” she said. “Criticism of the government has become a very dangerous thing. We have a situation where there is an almost complete dominance of public discourse and narrative be the government. Anyone who continues to fight that is discredited and dehumanised…Daphne’s assassination is the culmination of all that is wrong with this system.”
Rachael Jolley, editor of global press freedom NGO Index on Censorship said she was shocked when she found out what was going on below the surface in Malta – an EU and Commonwealth country where many British people visit on holiday.
“Outsiders have got no idea that this is all happening underneath,” she said.
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