Malta’s Attorney General must provide the public with a sufficient explanation as to why she granted Darren ‘It Topo’ Debono a plea deal for his role in the attempted heist on HSBC which saw roughly 65 shots fired at police officers, the PN and activist group Repubblika have said. Debono was handed a 10-year prison … Continued
Popular TV presenter Peppi Azzopardi has endorsed the Nationalist Party ahead of this year’s general election, arguing that the Labour Party’s biggest problem is its huge electoral majority. “I think that the corruption that was carried out by a small clique within the PL, which caused immense global damage, was because they felt they could … Continued
Lawyer Veronique Dalli has played down calls by the Women’s Rights Foundation for Malta to introduce specific legislation against “femicide”, arguing that crimes for homicide are already strict enough. “Laws for homicide, which in this case is a femicide, already exist and I don’t think there can be stricter penalty than life imprisonment,” Dalli told … Continued
Malta’s Inclusion Minister has called on the police to investigate a controversial priest after he compared being possessed by demons or having schizophrenia to being gay. “Where’s the Curia? This type of hateful narrative against the gay community is unacceptable… And to make matters worse, this attack comes from a priest,” Julia Farrugia Portelli said … Continued
Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said he fainted at a public event a few days before the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia because his blood pressure was too low. In a recent interview with TV personality Ben Camille, Muscat said that the incident, on 14th October 2017 at a reception at the Le Meridien … Continued
Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi has said he is “absolutely certain” that disgraced former minister Konrad Mizzi will see the inside of a prison cell sometime this year. “You are corrupt, Konrad Mizzi,” Azzopardi said. “You and [former Prime Minister] Joseph Muscat corrupted politics in an unprecedented manner. You raped the very essence and goal of … Continued
Matthew Caruana Galizia, the son of Daphne Caruana Galizia, has described how the threats and harassment faced by his mother over the years left their mark on him and inspired him to pursue a career in journalism. Caruana Galizia was part of a panel discussion at the People’s Tribunal on the Murder of Journalists, last … Continued