Daniel Muka Prosecutor: ‘I Quit Attorney General’s Office Because I Felt In Danger’
Lawyer George Camilleri has issued a concerning statement about his decision to convert from prosecutor to defence lawyer, claiming he did so because he felt unsafe and unprotected from dangerous criminals.
In particular, Camilleri said he felt scared of the spectre of Daniel Muka, an Albanian national who has been charged with the double murder of Christian Pandolfino and Ivor Maciejowski.
Muka was seen as so dangerous that the prison had to place him in a makeshift cage to stop him from escaping.
Camilleri said he filed the Bill of Indictment against Muka by himself and that Deputy Attorney General Philip Galea Farrugia refused to co-sign it.
“I still get anxious when I remember the particular moment, just days before the final deadline for the Bill of Indictment was issued, when the Deputy Attorney General refused to revise and co-sign the Bill of Indictment with me, and this after said Bill of Indictment had been sitting on his lap for months,” he said.
“Not just that, he also disappeared from the office ‘on leave’. That’s what made me leave the Office of the Attorney General, not because of the universal culture of squabbling between direct colleagues (prosecutors, terġa), but because I felt in danger, and there were other pending homicide cases that I would probably have been left stranded with.”
Camilleri went on to refer to the 2022 death of his former colleague Karl Muscat, who died at home from what is believed to have been heart failure with police finding no signs of foul play.
Late prosecutor Karl Muscat
However, Camilleri suggested Muscat’s death may carry far more sinister undertones.
“On that note, I still remember that in that period, my fallen comrade Karl Muscat, who was very worried about his situation too. Then he died. How? No one is sure yet”
“That is why I left the Office of the Attorney General. And I have much more to say than my friend Mark Camilleri can ever imagine.”
Camilleri has now been placed under an ethics investigation by the Committee for Advocates and Legal Procurators after his decision to start representing two of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murderers, George and Alfred Degiorgio, despite having previously prosecuted them.
Photos: Left: Suspected murderer Daniel Muka (Photo: Net News), Right: Lawyer George Camilleri
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