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The parents and brother of Gunner Matthew Psaila, who died as a result of grueling military training 12 years ago, have broken their silence for the first time to express their disappointment at a recent court judgment that attributed part of the blame to him.
“The army he loved betrayed him because it did not protect him. Matthew lived for the army. Matthew was not to blame for what happened. He took the army very seriously,” his mother Marion says.
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Matthew’s father, Anthony, and older brother, Joseph, add: “We are disappointed by the court judgment because they keep insisting on pinning part of the blame for what happened onto Matthew. This is built on a false rumour that he could not swim. Matthew could swim.”
A judge has found that the Armed Forces of Malta should carry the bulk of the blame for the tragic death of a teenage soldier during a botched training exercise 12 years ago. But who is the army, as the victim’s uncle rightly asked on the day the court awarded nearly €180,000 in compensation to Matthew Psaila’s family.
That it had to take so long for the truth to surface is already sad but it gets even grimmer when one realises this was the fourth review of the tragedy.
For the record, the army had conducted an internal inquiry, the government had ordered an independent inquiry and the routine magisterial inquiry kicked in automatically.