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A Maltese magistrate on Wednesday denied the release on bail of three men accused of murdering Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia last year, saying that they could to escape and that their release would disturb the public.
PHOTO: Matthew Caruana Galizia, son of Daphne Caruana Galizia, murdered investigative journalist, and his mother Rose Vella attend a meeting vigil and a demonstration marking eight months since his car-bombing in Valetta, Malta on June 16, 2018. REUTERS / Darrin Zammit Lupi
VALLETTA : A Maltese magistrate on Wednesday denied his release on bail to three men accused of murdering Maltese anti-corruption last year, journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia said that they could be killed. "The manner in which the murder was committed was very disturbing and the appearance of a mafia execution." Therefore, the court considers that "the escape" was a very disturbing event.
"The way the murder was committed was very disturbing and the appearance of a mafia execution. it should protect society side against disturbances that would create a bail, "said the Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit's decision to refuse bail. Her murder can therefore be interpreted as an attack on freedom of expression, which is one of the pillars of our society, "she said
Alfred Degiorgio, his brother George Degiorgio and Vince Muscat were arrested at the end of last year and charged with the car bomb attack of October 2017, although the police have said they suspect that someone from a police station was arrested. Other had ordered the murder.
At the preliminary hearings, prosecutors said that the bomb had been placed in Caruana Galizia's car, a text message from a mobile phone on a yacht belonging to the Degiorgios. [19659008] Stafrace Zammit has already ruled that there was sufficient evidence for all three to be tried, but the trial start date was not fixed.
On Wednesday, the magistrate said his decision was based on gravity Crime and his belief that "on the basis of their record" men would probably not be accused may not have acted alone, she said, so that their release could also interfere with efforts to find other people who may have been involved.
Since the assassination of Caruana Galizia, Malta under the pressure of the institutions of the European Union, with an ongoing investigation into its banking supervision and requests for investigations into the state Law of the Mediterranean Island
(Report by Chris Scicluna, edited by Steve Scherer and Mark Heinrich)
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