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Opinion makers absolve Joe Psaila

David Darmanin
After they had stepped up the pressure against Joe Psaila when he was still in the police force, Where’s Everybody directors Lou Bondì and Peppi Azzopardi have now absolved the former assistant commissioner indicted on human rights breaches.
The beneficiary of a direct order received for security at Mater Dei, Group 4 Securitas Managing Director Kenneth DeMartino was not deterred by Psaila’s far from good reputation when it came to employing him as security chief at the new hospital.
Irrespective of whether or not he is paid from taxpayers’ money, Bondi now considers Psaila to be a private individual, and has therefore no opinion on his appointment at Mater Dei.
Asked on whether he had a change of heart on Psaila, seeing that he had often written about his wrongdoings at the police force, Bondi said: “Back then I had an opinion on Joe Psaila because he was a public figure. Nowadays he occupies a private position and I don’t have an opinion on private persons.”
Peppi Azzopardi, who in 1994, was awarded Lm500 compensation for his illegal arrest that had taken place 10 years before under Psaila, opted for the magnanimous approach when confronted with the same question.
“I genuinely think that everyone can make mistakes. Joe Psaila has made mistakes from which I suffered. But this does not mean that he is to be condemned for the rest of his life. I think they have damaged Joe Psaila enough and that he got punished for what he did. I don’t know Joe Psaila and I never met him,” he said.
Daphne Caruana Gailzia had also been very outspoken on the Nationalist government’s decision to retain Psaila’s as Assistant Commissioner. She now says she would write on the matter if she had an opinion.
In her curt reply, Caruana Gailiza said: “When I have opinions I usually write about them in my columns. I don’t give quotes.”

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2008/08/10/t17.html

Any thoughtd aboput the following?

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From human rights abuses to Group 4 – Joe Psaila

The former assistant commissioner indicted on human rights breaches is head of Group 4 security at Mater Dei

Joe Psaila’s insalubrious reputation seems to have done little to stop him from taking on the role of head of security at Group 4. After he was first employed by Skanska to act as their security liaison with Group 4, he was taken on by the private security firm as a director of security following the handover of the hospital to Mater Dei. Joe Psaila was employed by the new Managing Director of Group 4 Kenneth DeMartino.
Psaila was notorious in his role as a police inspector during the 1980s in various human rights breaches. But soon after the election of 1987, the new Nationalist government strangely promoted him to assistant commissioner and director of prisons.
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http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2008/08/03/t2.html

If you are referting to the fact that I use s nickname, why are you asking me and not the others who use a nickname as well?

– Yes Pullicini knew what was going on (no “ifs” – not even theoretical ones if it makes you happy).

– Yes he deserved to be drummed out of the corps and punished

Now do YOU have the guts, and are you man enough to tell us what you think of the fact that the man who actually did the deed walked free as a bird with a presidential pardon (from the same man who freed Queiroz and Zeppi l-Hafi) while the accomplice got 15 years?

What about the fact that the police officer who removed the body and dumped it was retained in the force and promoted under the PN? Straight answers would be appreciated, though there is little hope of that from someone who is as blinkered as you seem to be.

You don’t have to hurry to reply – I will be away for a while.

In the meantime, enjoy your Groupthink.

PS – Daph, you’re becoming like Meerkat