Comments on: So it's over, is it?

By: j.mizzi

j.mizzi — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:05:57 +0000

You are all wrong..fusello was not dead on the spot. i was a press photographer at that time. i managed to slip into his hospital room where he was lying on his dead bed.i managed to take 2 photos of him . one of the photos it shows that he was smiling and the other he was not. so that means he was not dead yet.the editor was very angry because i showed him a smiling dying man, luckily i had a another photo. SO HE WAS NOT SHOT DEAD.

By: dennis carabott

dennis carabott — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:28:19 +0000

louis bartolo was my uncle and he was a great man and a fair man he was a man amongst men i was there the day it happened i was 12 years old and held in custody for 4 weeks. my nana was on medication and they would not give it to her infact anyone who knew my uncle was bought in it was us or them that day and i thank him for me being here today

By: Daniela

Daniela — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:32:12 +0000

Daphne,

I am quite new to your website having started reading your ‘diary’ over the past few months.

First of all I’d like to thank you for reminding people of what went on in Malta in the VERY RECENT past. More importantly for making the younger generation such as myself aware of the Malta we were born into (I was born in 1983). I am opposed to those who tell you that by doing so, you are stirring things up and instilling more anger into people which is best left dormant. You are right to speak out, make yourself heard, after all, most of the people involved in all you describe are still active today. So how can we just forget?

Secondly, I’d like to join the rest in expressing my sorrow for Anthony Mifsud and all that he experienced, being reduced to a state of 60-something % permanent disability (as declared by his doctor on Xarabank) and being awarded a sum of money for it which only God-knows-when he’ll be granted.

An avid reader,

Daniela

By: M.Mallia

M.Mallia — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:47:37 +0000

I feel so sorry for Anthony Mifsud. In my opinion NOTHING can make it better! I think that the police officers who were involved in this horrific story, apart from paying “some money”, should be put in solitary confinement for a year. They sure deserve it! If this were to really happen, it would still be no comparison to the hell they put Anthony through!

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:36:17 +0000

[Daphne – Yes.]

If you really intend to write a book, I could do the bit on Mintoff’s “international relations”. You know, interview some foreigners with interesting stories to tell, who knew far more about what was going on than the locals. Or we could make a movie, like Werner Herzog’s brilliant “Echoes from a sombre empire.”

By: I M Dingli

I M Dingli — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:28:27 +0000

Oh I see, thank you for that pearl of wisdom. Is that what you call rational?

[Daphne – I’m extremely rational, thank you.]

By: LONDON AREA

LONDON AREA — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:24:01 +0000

@ Daphne ” All I know is that former Police Comissioner Lawrence Pullicino is about the only public official to have ever been convicted of human rights abuses perpetrated under the Mintoff regime. As for the rest… they all got off scot free, and some were even promoted”

A certain police seargant once grabbed two of my schoolmates, just 15 years of age,totally innocent and naive, slapped them round the head and threw them into the police-lockup overnight, just because he found a scratch on his car and wanted to blame someone. Innexplicably this same police seargent is now our police commissioner. Go figure! So much for justice.

By: Kenneth Zammit Tabona

Kenneth Zammit Tabona — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:14:23 +0000

what blasts from the past! Just proves that Sicily is only 60 miles away……………..

By: Kenneth Zammit Tabona

Kenneth Zammit Tabona — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:44:33 +0000

This is the intrepid KZT! Just read through the comments. To put the record straight, John Bondin k/a Fusellu never met my Ma at the Upper Barrakka ( mummy is not a Barrakka sort of girl, more the Ghar id -Dud type ) nor did he chuck her poodle (it was a West Highland by the way, I still get very miffed when the late Casper is referred to as a poodle) over the bastions.

David S may have heard the story how my mother was mugged on on a Saturday afternoon at the bottom of Ghar id Dud Street in front of three policemen and crowds of people some time in the early 80s. The late Mr Bondin was not involved but apparently the guys who thought (wrongly) that my mother was a soft target were ‘untouchables’ and not of the Indian sort either. Therefore they could not be prosecuted because nobody would dare be a witness; not even the police. The case never happened……..however……three of four months later I was summoned to the Sliema Police Station ( in those days I used to work at the bank in Manwel Dimech Street, and was ushered into the Surgent’s office and offered a cuppa. En passant I was informed that ” dawk l-irgiel li aggredewlek il-mama, zellqu fil-bitha tad-Depot”! That was the kind of justice that was meted out in those dark days when these dinosaurs ruled the earth……………!

O Tempora O Mores

Also for the record as it seems that although it is said that ‘de mortibus non nisi malo’ and all that Mr Bondin alias Fusellu had struck up a chummy relationship with me way before that when I was a cashier in Floriana Branch. The only thing was that I hadn’t the foggiest who he was and when he was eventually killed and his photograph was bandied everywhere I was so astonished that you could have knocked me down by just blowing very softly…………..

By: Zebbugi

Zebbugi — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:57:26 +0000

So after all these years the Mifsud case which happened during the Mintoff regime had to be concluded during the same week in which Dom Mintoff was declared by Libya as the icon of Human Rights! X’ironija!!!!