With No One Charged Over JeanPaul Sofia’s Tragic Death Three Months On, PN MPs Ramp Up Pressure For Public Inquiry
Any MP who remains silent about the pain JeanPaul Sofia’s mother is going through doesn’t deserve to remain in Parliament, renowned podcaster Jon Mallia warned last night.
“You are taking the country for a ride and I hope that before the break of dawn, you form a queue in Valletta and resign one by one,” Mallia said after Isabelle Bonnici repeated her call for a public inquiry into her son’s death last December at a Kordin construction site.
“There is no congruence in being honourable and not having balls. You are living a lie, you are believing a pantomime.”
A number of MPs, all from the Opposition, did stick their necks out to endorse Bonnici’s call for a public inquiry.
“This mother deserves full justice and the Sofia family have a right to the whole truth,” Adrian Delia said. “Only a public inquiry can establish all the shortcomings and identify who should answer for their actions. With every passing day we are rubbing more salt into their wounds.”
Jerome Caruana Cilia pledged to keep pressuring the government to open a public inquiry while Ivan Castillo said Bonnici has a right to some closure and justice.
Eve Borg Bonello said that a public inquiry is the very least that should be done.
“We used to say that things won’t change in this country unless somebody dies, but now not even a death is enough,” she quipped.
Sofia, 20, tragically died when a construction site collapsed on 3rd December and it took CPD officials 15 hours to retrieve his body from the rubble.
No one has been charged in connection with his death although police investigations are ongoing.
Prime Minister Robert Abela has resisted calls from his family to open a public inquiry, warning it could clash with ongoing investigations.
Cover photo: Left: Isabelle Bonnici with her late son JeanPaul Sofia, Right: MPs Adrian Delia, Jerome Caruana Cilia, Ivan Castillo and Eve Borg Bonello
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