Damage to poppy wreaths at Narrow Water in County Down is being treated as a hate crime by Northern Ireland police. Eighteen soldiers were killed in two IRA bomb attacks at the site near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in August 1979. BBC reported that the damage happened on Saturday afternoon and the wreaths have since been [...]
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Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters. Published in The Daily Beast From an article by Barbie Latza Nadeau: “My mother would have been able to find the mastermind,” Galizia’s son Matthew told The Daily Beast. “Anyone familiar with her work and her last few years alive knows where to start to find the ones who [...]
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My speech at yesterday's vigil. https://youtu.be/Jyp-d_elZ2E The photo accompanying this piece is by Darrin Zammit Lupi for Reuters.
Guest post by Pat Azzopardi Preziosi People hold up photos of assassinated anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and torches on mobile phones during a vigil to mark eleven months since her murder in a car bomb, in Valletta, Malta September 16, 2018. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi At 2:35 pm, exactly 11 months ago today, [...]
The government needed a pretext to push activists and protesters away from the Great Siege Memorial. They waited for the 8th September when no one would have made a fuss if they spruced up the place to have the Victory Day bacchanal and then said this is it. Because they did not want to work [...]
Adrian Delia stayed up late last night penning verses. Here's the little ditty.
This morning, government employees wrapped the hoarding around the Great Siege memorial but they only covered the three unused sides facing the back and side of the memorial. The front facing the law courts has been left untouched sporting the protest banner demanding justice. The Maltese flag, the image of Daphne Caruana Galizia and messages [...]
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "It is our duty to defy the illegal acts of authoritarian government. We cannot allow anyone to shut down the agora for the sake of their own vanity, and to protect the illusion of their unassailability. At 7pm tonight, come to Great Siege Square, step into the [...]
This evening, with the help of lawyers Jason Azzopardi, Karol Aquilina, Eve Borg Costanzi and Therese Comodini Cachia as well 61 other lawyers, I asked the court to open out of hours to consider my request to order the government not to remove the protest memorial in Great Siege Square. Judge Noel Cuschieri received my [...]
Issued just now. Stqarrija Stampa ta’ Manuel Delia Dal-għodu jien u attivisti sħabi weħħilna strixxun mal-injam li qed idawwar ‘il-Monument tal-Assedju l-Kbir li kien juri l-bandiera ta’ Malta, xbiegħa ta’ Daphne Caruana Galizia u l-kelma ‘Ġustizzja’. Qegħdna wkoll fjuri u xemgħat. Dan bi tkomplija tal-protesta għall-verita’ u l-ġustizzja. Għall-ħabta tas-14:15 impjegati tad-Dipartiment tal-Indafa Pubblika [...]
I have just filed the following police report with the Commissioner of Police about the removal of the banner we put up this morning opposite the Law Courts: Sur Kummissarju, Kif forsi diġà taf, dalgħodu jiena personalment flimkien ma’ numru ta’ attivisti oħra poġġejna banner li kien juri l-bandiera ta’ Malta, il-kelma “ĠUSTIZZJA” u wiċċ [...]
Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant reported the Maltese authorities are in shock at the tenacity and determination of MP Pieter Omtzigt appointed by the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly to report on whether the investigations into the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia are truly independent. The report says that Pieter Omtzigt is known in the Netherlands [...]
A banner with Malta's national flag, an image of Daphne Caruana Galizia and the word "Ġustizzja" put up by activists at 10:30 am this morning was put down by government officials at 2:15 pm today. Flowers and candles left there were also swept away and binned.
These photos were taken this afternoon. The call for Justice is 11 months old. But no fainter.
