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His name became known after Pope Francis’ election, for implying that during the war of the Argentine dictatorship in 1976, Pope Francis had abandoned him to the military.
The Vatican firmly denied the accusation.
FEDERICO LOMBARDI
March 15, 2013
“These accusations are unfounded and have no reason, in any way, to cast a shadow on the figure of the new pope.”
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for speaking out against the dictatorship’s abuses, clarified Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s role.
ADOLFO PÉREZ ESQUIVEL
March 21, 2013
“The pope had nothing to do with the dictatorship, he was not involved with it. No! He was among those bishops who stood up and defended human rights. He did this through a quiet diplomacy.”
Former OPM official Neville Gafà has been cleared of threatening Avvenire journalist Nello Scavo on social media last summer, with a court declaring that the facts were “not at all convincing”.
Criminal proceedings against Gafà stemmed from a tweeted exchange on June 27 in a reaction to an initial message by NGO Alarm Phone announcing that 95 migrants at sea had been intercepted by “Europe’s Libyan allies,” and “returned to a war zone”.
That message had prompted Gafà to comment, “You better stop your dirty business…”
Scavo, a vocal critic of Malta’s handling of the migration crisis, had tweeted back, “dirty business, dirty oil, dirty agreement by governments. Anything to say about this dirty ways”?
Neville Gafa acquitted of threatening Italian journalist in migration tweet
A court has liberated former OPM official Neville Gafa over charges that he threatened Italian journalist Nello Scavo
15 December 2020, 10:39am
by Kurt Sansone
Updated at 5:20pm with statement by European Centre for Press and Media Freedom
A Maltese court has acquitted former OPM official Neville Gafa of accusations that he threatened Italian journalist Nello Scavo in a twitter exchange last summer.
Magistrate Charmaine Galea said she was unconvinced by Scavo’s claim that he felt threatened by the tweet: ‘Stop your dirty business. If not we will be stopping you.’
Italpress
15 Dicembre 2020
LA VALLETTA (MALTA) (ITALPRESS/MNA) – Neville Gafà, a former official at the Office of the Maltese Prime Minister has been acquitted of threatening Italian journalist Nello Scavo last summer. The Court ruled that there was insufficient evidence and that the comment was more political than a threat.
The case goes back to a Tweet made in June 2020 by Neville Gafa telling Scavo “Stop your dirty business. If not, we will stop you.” The comment was made on a post by the humanitarian NGO Alarm Phone. The journalist who works with the Italian newspaper ‘L’Avvenirè had asked on Twitter to who was the threat meant, and who the “we” was referring to in Gafà’s tweet.