The Maltese State failed to provide Daphne Caruana Galizia either with appropriate security that could have kept her safe or any form of security that would have been granted to her independently of the intervention and supervision of the political figures she was investigating. She was unsafe and she was made to prefer to remain unsafe in order to be able to conduct her journalism with the confidentiality her work demanded, to protect sources and to prevent the people she would expose from covering their tracks.
We emphasise that we see no evidence that the State has recognised these failures or has demonstrated any intention to address them.