La Repubblica runs a double-page spread today by Carlo Bonini and Giuliano Foschini that is introduced on the newspaper’s front page with the heading “This is how Malta destroys even the ghost of Daphne in order to cloud the truth”.
The report speaks of the frequent and repeated destruction of the memorial to Daphne in Valletta and says it is an unwitting admission that Daphne Caruana Galizia had exposed political and financial power in Malta.
The report refers to the campaign led by Jason Micallef who chairs the organisation of the Capital of Culture program and refers to his words as representative of the damnatio memoriae: the effort to ensure Daphne Caruana Galizia is not remembered.
La Repubblica speaks of Daphne Caruana Galizia as the ‘Great Accuser’ to Joseph Muscat’s ‘Great Accused’. ‘Joseph Muscat is besieged with his staff in Castille working on a program to remove “the Daphne Caruana Galizia problem”.’ They speak of the government’s “clumsy” attempts to spin itself out of this trap.
The report speaks of two European Parliamentary inquiries, a Council of Europe resolution and the European Banking Agency inquiry into Pilatus Bank. It quotes MEP Eva Joly saying “There’s impunity in Malta: for money laundering, for the sale of passports. This is a country where the judiciary and the police are not independent. Malta has become Europe’s door for dirty money and organised crime”.
La Repubblica also reports on the Greek refusal to Malta’s request to extradite Maria Efimova.
Carlo Bonini and Giuliano Foschini are authors of the film “Daphne” previewed tonight at the International Journalism Competition in Perugia and screened for the first time in Malta on April 21st at the University theater.
Tickets for the screening are available here.
