Daphne Caruana Galizia’s sister Corinne Vella has revealed the family refused to hand over her laptop to the police due to a lack of trust in the Maltese authorities.

“Daphne would never have wanted her laptop to be given to the authorities,” Vella told The Times of Malta as part of The Daphne Project. “She would always hide her laptop before going out. It was about protecting her sources. And she died protecting her sources. She knew that whatever information the police got hold of would go straight to the same people in government she was investigating.”

Vella said the police were asking the family to make an “impossible choice” by urging them to hand over the laptop.

”It’s like hand over the laptop or we are not going to investigate. We can’t do that. We just don’t trust them,” Vella said.

Caruana Galizia’s family has repeatedly called for an international investigation into the assassination. 

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