The shameful and disgusting situation where a person is being denied bail because of a secret criminal inquiry concerning emails sent by Daphne Caruana Galizia to her husband on the same day she was murdered.

After publishing the story about an email that Daphne Caruana Galizia sent to her estranged husband on the day she was murdered, Jeremy J Camilleri described my action as shameful. In other words, he described my action as Manuel Delia did. Both argue that it is incorrect to enter into the personal and family issues of Daphne Caruana Galizia and her husband. Both agreed that a prominent academic of the University of Malta should not go into such a low level of journalism. Camilleri considered the publication of this email as a direct attack on the family of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

While there is a consensus that all those involved in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia should face justice, there is a divergent opinion about what should be published about this murder and what not. The fact remains that the authorities and all the family members are obliged to tell the truth. My question to Mr. Camilleri is the following. Does he consider it acceptable that people lie at our courts or write a false biographical story about what really happened on the eve and day of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination? Let us not forget that this family was given the right to choose magistrates and judges who would sit on this case. Not even an ex-prime minister is being given such a right. Does Mr. Camilleri think that a family with such baggage should be given the right to choose the magistrate and the judges who sit on inquiries that directly concern them?

Let us not forget that a public inquiry was held. Let us not forget that those chosen by the government to sit on the public inquiry were deemed not suitable by the family of the victim to carry it out. Thus they ended up renouncing, and three new members were chosen. Let us remember that one of the judges this family chose was entrusted with collecting all the data from Daphne’s computer. The natural question to be asked is this. Did such an email come to his attention? The second judge chosen by the family to sit on the public inquiry lives in the same block of apartments where Daphne Caruana Galizia’s sister lives, and the husband of the third judge was caught doing business with Yorgen Fenech but the media remained completely silent.

Perhaps, the big difference between Mr. Camilleri and me is that I was brought up in Malta in the seventies and the eighties, where the rule of law was not at its best. There was a change in government, and significant improvements were made in this sector. However, we still did not achieve perfection, and I became a victim of police corruption, having been dragged to court for reporting abuse within the police force to the commissioner of the police of the day, Joe Rizzo. The same inspector I reported for abuse decided to prosecute me, and I spent years in court until I could clear my name. The police were not happy and, in the middle of the procedures, appealed, and the court of appeals, presided by Chief Justice Vincent DeGaetano, described the whole behaviour of the police inspector in this story as unexplainable.

Now Mr. Camilleri can understand why I am writing in this way. I have been a victim of the deceit and lies of the police. I have seen police inspectors, one after the other taking the witness stand and lie under oath. Now, if, for Mr. Jeremy Camilleri, it is unacceptable to expose lies, not infringe on individuals’ private lives, then we are on two different wavelengths.

Furthermore, it is unacceptable that a person is still under arrest for more than two years without facing a jury. Nevertheless, dear Mr. Camilleri, you belong to a party and a system that has a good record where social reforms are concerned but abysmal records where human rights are involved.

Now, if, for Mr. Camilleri, this is how justice should be done, then I prefer to live under the age of the Inquisition as, at least, back then, court procedures were fair and equitable. Mr. Camilleri is telling us to grow up, and yes, we are growing up as a nation because we are returning to the age of the Inquisition. Instead of having people dragged to court for blaspheming about God, as happened back then, we are now dragging people to court for blaspheming against gays. The difference is that the past tribunals, despite all the rhetoric of the wokes, had a fairer and more equitable procedure than the one used by our courts today in judging this sort of case. Unfortunately, the woke are destroying all our sense of justice, and those who support wokeism label individuals as shameful for denouncing atrocities committed by the state institutions.

Returning to Daphne Caruana Galizia, we face a state failure because these emails are part of a criminal inquiry. What this site can add with certainty is that this criminal inquiry is not part of the one against Yorgen Fenech. Simply put, these emails were never presented by the police or the prosecution as part of the compilation of evidence against Yorgen Fenech that was heard before Magistrate Rachel Montebello. Therefore, if Manuel Delia’s statement is true, there is another parallel criminal inquiry. On receiving these emails, the police preferred to open a separate inquiry, and this inquiry is being kept hidden from the Maltese nation.

I want to ask Mr. Jeremy Camillieri if he considers it fitting that a criminal inquiry is kept secret from the nation because the magistrate or judge is gathering personal information about the Caruana Galizia family. What is shameful is not that someone reveals information about a case that has rocked the very basis of our Maltese society but for institutions to carry out criminal inquiries and keep them under wraps.

In the process, an individual is kept in jail for years, waiting to go on trial, while information about the investigation of this murder is kept hidden. Let us not forget that Yorgen Fenech has been denied bail because a criminal inquiry is still open. This was one of the reasons, together with the fear that the accused could escape, why Yorgen Fenech is being denied bail.

Judging from Manuel Delia’s words, this criminal inquiry has information that puts the family in a bad light. I was given all sorts of titles for having written from the start of the police investigations that Yorgen Fenech is a victim of a colossal frame-up. What is shameful is the fact that the family of the victim was allowed to destroy a computer containing information relevant to the case. This is what is “absolutely disgusting” and not the fact that this site revealed the existence of such emails.