So what is Fly Away Peter Fly Away Paul going to do about it?

Published: December 21, 2013 at 12:13am

The parliamentary secretary for justice, Owen Bonnici, has called the arrest of a Times of Malta reporter ‘illegal and abusive’. His minister, Joseph Muscat, concurs.

Manuel Mallia, the police minister, has said nothing. Carol Peralta is his friend.

So now what is Fly Away Peter Fly Away Paul Zammit planning to do about the police officer who arrested that reporter? Is he going to put him through hell and enlist the help of Malta Today in besmirching him, as he did with Elton Taliana?

Or is he just going to let this go?




15 Comments Comment

  1. Matthew S says:

    How short our memories are. Don’t we remember that a few months ago, Manuel Mallia, now minister of broadcasting, sought the arrest of Paul Borg Olivier for writing a critical article?

    When challenged about it, he said that he supported free speech. Well, now is the time to prove it. Can a journalist please shove a microphone in Manuel Mallia’s face and ask the minister of broadcasting what he thinks about journalists being arrested?

  2. botom says:

    And what is Peter Paul Zammit going to do about the illegal arrest of Norman Vella?. As commissioner of police he did not only endorse this arrest but also defended it Mr Commissioner its time to say good bye.

    • Glenn says:

      Resign, Pietru Pawl Zammit. Mintiex denn li tilbes uniformi ta’ pulizija ahseb u ara ta’ Kummissarju. It-torca li tilbes harqitek!

      Wiehed kien bhalek u qablek u taf kif spicca hux. Abbuza mill-poter u spicca l-habs.

  3. Joe Fenech says:

    Perhaps Manuel Mallia is a Freemason too. Has anyone put the question to him?

    Freemasonry ‘the Maltese way’ has been a contributing factor in Malta’s rapid decline. While Sicilian judges have fought secret societies, the Maltese ones join them or associate with.

    What a horrific state of affairs.

  4. albona says:

    He will do what Muscat tells him to do, all of course inspired not by a sense of what is right, but rather to steal the limelight from Bonnici, who The Malta Independent has now revealed also had his own private agenda in pursuing this – not tarnishing the government’s image.

    I’d also add that I think that he pounced on the chance to undermine Muscat. If so, good on him. Now it just depends on what the caucus thinks of him. I’d much prefer him to Muscat.

  5. bob-a-job says:

    Fly Away Peter Fly Away Paul, Scum Back Peter Scum Back Paul.

  6. Francis Saliba M.D. says:

    According to evidence available up to now, the police from Commissioner down to constable, can do now wrong if it is in aid of the Labour Party and its favourites.

    According to the incumbent Police Commissioner the Force is brought into disrepute if a member of the police force, in the execution of his duty to prevent crime and to bring (the correct) culprit to justice, he fails to obtain the prior blessing of the Commissioner.

    We now have a case of policemen arresting a journalist not on his own authority or on an order from his superior officer but on the order of an off-duty magistrate partying inside the precincts of his hall inside the law courts.

    What a disgraceful shambles.

  7. David says:

    The police were acting on orders from a magistrate. Thus the magistrate is ultimately responsible for the arrest.

  8. chico says:

    Can some one please tell me why Peralta was not, if not arrested, at least ordered to leave the public building where he was caught smoking? Police chicken kienu u chicken ghadhom.

  9. Kevin Zammit says:

    Don’t we all know the answer? Pity the Labour fools can’t read and think.

  10. Makjavel says:

    The ridiculous fact is that a magistrate should not be a member of a club, football club organisation , a most recent case.

    But then there is no problem for a magistrate being a member of a secret society call it club, if you want.

    Because free masonery is powerful enough to take charge of big organisations and nations.

  11. Galahan II says:

    You don’t know the half of it.

    At least some masons are not ashamed to say they are masons up-front.

    There is a whole other subculture in Malta of businessmen who hang out together under cover of religious-based communities.

    They call each other “brothers”, have a token priest on board, continuously “Praise God” (but still do what needs to be done in the world of business no matter how double-standard this is) and of course are committed to “help each other out” when the going gets tough.

    The initiation ceremony involves organising a dinner at your home for selected brothers who will judge your “worthiness” to join.

    I cannot be more specific here for various reasons.. but truly Mafia is well and alive here under many guises.

  12. charlie14357 says:

    Daphne what is your email please

    [Daphne – [email protected]]

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