The publisher of a satirical news site facing contempt of court proceedings has stood by a controversial social media post labelling Yorgen Fenech’s legal team “mafia lawyers”.
Tongue-in-cheek ‘news’ site
Bis-Serjetà is expected to face contempt of court proceedings after Fenech’s lawyers complained to magistrate Rachel Montebello about a meme uploaded on Facebook referring to them as “Mafia lawyers”.
The publisher of the site, who preferred to remain anonymous, told
Times of Malta that the attribution of the term "mafia" to the case was widespread.
“On
Bis-Serjetà I only satirise what is already in the public consciousness. If the courts had to go after everyone who has used the word ‘mafia’ in the context of what’s been revealed over the past year, then they’re going to have to expand Kordin [Correctional Facility] considerably,” he said.