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 … Continued
There is nothing to suggest the State has any viable ability, or protocol in place, to assess and decide on the risk to the life and limb of journalists, their families and their property, or that it can take effective decisions to provide protection autonomously from anyone in power who may be inconvenienced by such … Continued
As has already been pointed out, the State did not investigate the car bombs that occurred before the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia, at least with comparable vigour as was done after Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed.
The Inquiry is also being asked to determine whether the State failed to take measures within the scope of its powers which, judged reasonably, it might have been expected to take in order to avoid the risk to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s life.
The State had the duty to investigate and act on the revelations exposed by Daphne Caruana Galizia in a timely manner, without any consideration of the power and influence enjoyed by the perpetrators of the crimes she documented. The State had the duty to ensure that as a journalist and an active citizen providing a … Continued
This long-standing reality that Daphne Caruana Galizia had had to face for decades had been aggravated in recent years by massive and coordinated online trolling, unbridled and unrestrained hatred that completed her dehumanisation in the eyes of many people. This to the extent that even when she was killed by a car bomb, her more … Continued
The dehumanising campaign initiated by political leaders was sustained by the media owned or controlled by the senior political figures concerned. Overwhelmingly this pressure came from the media owned and controlled by the Labour Party. But it was also true for some time of the media owned and controlled by the Nationalist Party whose former … Continued
The political leadership of the country – from Joseph Muscat down – systematically branded Daphne Caruana Galizia a liar and a fabricator of fiction, and that for partisan reasons she misrepresented this fiction as truth. These political leaders repeatedly and falsely attributed to Daphne Caruana Galizia opinions or statements she did not hold or make … Continued
The Inquiry has been asked to determine whether any State entity knew or ought to have known of, or constituted, a real and immediate risk to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s life including from the criminal acts of a third party. The Inquiry has been provided with ample documented evidence that shows that Daphne Caruana Galizia was … Continued
When Daphne Caruana Galizia reported that Chris Cardona acted inappropriately while on an official business trip, he retaliated with vexatious libel suits and a paralysing garnishee order. He remained unable to sustain his claim that he had been wrongfully accused and in fact abandoned his case in court, with the result that Daphne Caruana Galizia’s … Continued
