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Prime Minister meets with Caruana Galizia family
Prime Minister Robert Abela met privately with the Daphne Caruana Galizia family on Wednesday, days after publicly apologising for the failure of the state
5 August 2021, 8:19am
by Laura Calleja
Prime Minister Robert Abela held a meeting with the Daphne Caruana Galizia family on Wednesday after the public inquiry report found that the state should shoulder responsibility for the murder because a culture of impunity was created.
According to a report in the Times of Malta, the meeting was attended by Caruana Galizia s husband, Peter Caruana Galizia, along with two of their sons and her sister Corrine Vella.
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.