UPDATED: Police Union Chief’s ‘Golden Shower’ Battlecry Turns Out To Be False
Photo in bottom-left corner from TVM’s news bulletin
UPDATED 19:25 with Police Union Chief Sandro Camilleri’s statement
The president of the police officers’ union has been left with egg on his face after kicking up a storm over a report that a thief had pissed on police officers as they tried to arrest him.
Police caught a Malian thief red-handed inside a Ħaż-Żebbuġ residence today, and TVM reported that he had urinated on officers from the rooftop as they made their move to arrest him.
The report went viral on social media and reached the ears of POU president Sandro Camilleri, who told TVM that the case highlights a growing lack of respect in the Maltese police force.
“A black man broke into a house, damaged it and took out his private part and urinated on police officers as they tried to arrest him,” Camilleri said. “We have reached these barbaric levels and the time has come to impose effective jail sentences on everyone who attacks police officers on duty. The uniform represents the state and an attack on the police is an attack on the state. Can you imagine what would happen if someone had to urinate on a magistrate, a judge or an MP?”
However, the police later issued a statement clarifying that the thief didn’t actually urinate on officers.
Camilleri himself has denied these claims, going against the official press release in a Facebook post on his own profile, claiming that this news outlet has “tried to personally attack [Mr Camilleri] since its inception.”
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