I thought I had replied before but must have forgotten to click the appropriate key. I’m thereofre repeating my response again, as I remember it.

Yes, you did all you could but my comments referred to Gozitans in general not to you personally (hence: “Why don’t THEY report it?”)

Would you believe me if I TELL YOU I DID you suggested.

Furthere more I contacted TWO newspapers ( Dailes) and gave all detailed information and I am still ‘waiting’ to read ‘something’ to whom ,I handed over on a silver plate all my findings, to the present day.

A collossal effort I did, did not get me any results at all. That is the reason why I am bringing on many forums not just this one.I strongly believe that the general public should know what is going on in Gozo.

When I personally asked the persons who run the newspapers above mentioned on what happened in their investigations, I was told by both, that the response they were both getting was iether “NO Comment” or ” we have a different version and we have nothing more to add “.Even the hospital authorities are declining to ‘say’ anything.

Is this not a condemnable situation?! Or do you want me to make public all I found out myself on the incident on this forum? I’ll certainly give you details, names/ family nick names and the whole truth? Of course, I personally shoulder all responsabilities to what I write.

I am also prepared to send you privately all the information I have in hand and then I leave the final decision in your hands, because i really take your final sentences as an insult to my credibility.

The ball is in your parlour now. You decide and I will act accordingly.

“Now all Gozitans know a different story. . .”

Well? Why don’t they report it? This is a case of Gozitan omerta’, I’m afraid and no amount of gemgem is going to change the fact that a lot of people are aware of a crime but are unwilling to come forward and denounce it.

I’m sorry to have to say it Mr Muscat but all the rest of your post is just a string of excuses. I think that a “minimum effort” should be made, first of all, by those who claim that this incident is “shameful and condemnable”.

Anyway “someone” adviced person hit by over 50 pellets to lie to Police authorities,saying that he was hit while having a walk.And all stopped there.

Now ALL GOZITANS know a different story. In fact, the truth is that both persons where hunting. But Gozo is ruled by ‘Devine right’ and thus above the law.

Just a minimum effort by any newspaper or the police authorities would surely find the truth. Who was really behind this cover up is common knowledge in Gozo.
But living under a regime where politicians are above the law such behaviour is an everyday occurence.

Silence is golden in Gozo and WELL REWARDED. Governance, justice and transperancy in Gozo are somehwere at the rear end of …. you know very well where!

‘Judge us on what we do and not what we say” was some one’s battle cry. Indeed, I am and the above is shameful and condemnable, to say the least.

A visit to Gozo would prove the opposite. But of course, Gozo is a different republic where abuses of all sorts are rampant and the arms of the law rarely reach it.

A very serious hunting accident that took place at Nadur last week was not even mentioned in any newspaper. Freedom of information is placed by GOLDEN SILENCE in Gozo.

Well done for the authorities in sticking to this golden rule of silence.The abbuses thrown under the carpet are jeopardising the roots democracy. What a shame.

[Moderator – What was the Nadur accident?]

So good one EuroF**kers for stopping these morons

The autumn season will not be abolished but enforcement will get progressively more effective until many hunters will give up and simply stay at home. It might take a few more years but is inevitable now.

Hunting at sea will also be significantly curbed. Enforcement is more difficult but will still be carried out, eventually.

EU membership was essential to obtain these results; this was the most important issue facing the anti-hunting lobby between 1998 and 2003. The referendum had to be won at all costs and I still believe BirdLife was justified in doing all it could – including reaching an ‘agreement’ with hunters – to ensure a positive outcome.

It was important to defuse tension in the period leading to the referendum so as not to push hunters into taking an anti-EU stand. As usual in Malta, “every vote counted” and even an untimely remark by EU Commissioner Wallstrom could have had dire consequences.

At the time there was an outcry against BirdLife and accusations that it was betraying its mission by negotiating with hunters and accepting, for example, that the minimum age for hunting be lowered from 21 to 18.

With hindsight one can see that those ‘environmentalists’ (foremost among them Alternattiva Demokratika, it should be said) who attacked BirdLife for taking a soft approach in those years had no idea of long-term strategy. No wonder AD is in such a mess.