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Michelle Muscat: ‘I Was More Sorry Than Daphne’s Family When She Got Killed’

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Michelle Muscat has claimed she was probably more sorry than Daphne Caruana Galizia’s own family when the journalist got assassinated last year.

“If there is someone who wants Daphne Caruana Galizia to be alive today, that is me,” the Prime Minister’s wife told MaltaToday in an interview. “When I heard the news about what happened to her, I think I was more sorry than her own family. Her family could go on to make her a saint; but at the time I said to myself: ‘Now I will have to live with her lies’. I want her alive.

Caruana Galizia’s three children lambasted Muscat’s claim, with the late journalist’s son Matthew describing it as “revolting and astonishing”.

His brother Andrew accused Michelle Muscat of “trying to kill my mother a second time”.

“It’s generally the guilty who pursue adversaries beyond the grave,” he tweeted.

Their brother Paul took aim at both Michelle Muscat and MaltaToday’s managing editor Saviour Balzan, who conducted the interview.

“Malta’s Queen Michelle Muscat grants an interview to MaltaToday’s servile Royal Correspondent Saviour Balzan,” he tweeted. “Together, they gloat over Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination, talk about the injustices they’ve suffered, and their wish to bring her back to life to punish her.”

In the interview, her first since the conclusion of the Egrant magisterial inquiry last week, Michelle Muscat said she suffered greatly under the pen of Caruana Galizia but never met the journalist face to face.

“If she mentioned me 11,000 times on her blog, I could have taken her to court 11,000 times. Because it was always something negative,” she said. “I will never forget one of them: just after my mother died, my brother – now, I don’t often speak to my brother. He has his life, I have mine. But when our mother died, [and Daphne blogged about it], my brother was very hurt. We hadn’t even buried her yet, and already they were writing things about her. And when [Daphne] wrote about Egrant, I had to ask my brother. I said, ‘Do you believe this’? Because […] I wouldn’t have been surprised if, even… at the end of everything… “

She also took aim at the private school her twin children Soleil and Etoile attend, accusing it of doing nothing to prevent the bullying her children suffered in the wake of the Panama Papers and the Egrant story.

“The school did nothing to protect my children, it was business as usual for it,” she said. “Obviously, because they were our children. When things happened to other people’s children, it was never ‘business as usual’. With ours, it was. Which is fine: that helped us continue leading a normal life. But then, of course, at school there would be other children who would hear things, and over the weeks…especially when it came to the election… there were taunts about Panama. There were parties to which the entire class was invited, but not our children. And in the school social chat-group, there were other children who would post things about their father. There was all of this. And it wasn’t just my children; my niece, too, was taunted at school because of her aunt. The damage wasn’t done only to my children and myself; but to all my family.”

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Tim is interested in the rapid evolution of human society and is passionate about justice, human rights and cutting-edge political debates. You can follow him on Instagram or Twitter/X at @timdiacono or reach out to him at [email protected]

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