And let’s not forget that Labour’s Star Candidate is Meinrad Calleja’s defence lawyer
Now square that in the context of much of what happened over the last few weeks, including – and not least – the sudden appearance in the Labour Party’s possession of an illicitly recorded telephone conversation, in which the victim of Emmanuel Mallia’s most notorious client discusses the very same attempted murder/cocaine trafficking cases which Labour’s star candidate defended in court.
The Labour Party is making it out to be a sting, in which Richard Cachia Caruana’s interlocutor betrayed him by recording him. But it sounds and looks to me very much more like the illegal interception of a telephone call.
They didn’t cut out the voice of the other person to protect him/her from being identified as the person who carried out the sting. A person carrying out a sting would not have had the level of familiarity that would allow that sort of conversation.
No, the Labour Party removed the voice of the other person to make it LOOK like a sting, because it can’t afford to be seen to be trafficking in illegally intercepted phone conversations.
Especially not with the dirty history it has in that department. And particularly not when it is concerned that people might put two and two together, as I did almost immediately I heard the full thing made public yesterday, and think to themselves, “Now who would have had an interest in recording Richard Cachia Caruana talking about issues surrounding the attempt on his life?”
Oh yes, of course.
And why would an illegally recorded conversation have survived for around 16 years and never have popped up before anywhere in the press?
Oh yes, of course. It was probably in some lawyer’s file somewhere.
If Manuel Mallia had nothing to do with this, he had better say so fast, because this is one mess that’s going to come swinging right round into his and Muscat’s faces.
Mysterious, isn’t it, how nobody in the press bothered to work out the connection or ask Muscat whether 1. this was an illegal phone tap and whether the Labour Party should be dealing in illegal phone taps, and 2. whether he feels comfortable using the near-murder of one of his political opponents for partisan gain, especially when his Star Candidate Manuel Mallia was the defence lawyer in the trial of the man charged with masterminding the murder attempt, and – BECAUSE EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE FORGOTTEN THIS – deputy Labour leader Anglu Farrugia was the defence lawyer for one of the men commissioned to carry out the murder, Ian Farrugia.
But why would Joseph Muscat mind? The Labour Party, under Sant’s leadership, did its utmost to sabotage those trials and undermine the credibility of the main witnesses. And it did so entirely without shame and in full knowledge that it was serving the interests of Anglu Farrugia’s client. Manuel Mallia wasn’t yet a star candidate, but he is now.
I see that the Labour Party’s standards continue to bump along the bottom. I wouldn’t trust these people to clean out our cess-pit.
Labour star candidate Manuel Mallia with his client Meinrad Calleja, on trial for the attempted murder of Richard Cachia Caruana
Labour star candidate Manuel Mallia, with Meinrad Calleja's jubilant wife Roberta
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We may yet hope that they are still awake and we might get some answers (some luck) since they have worked overtime to answer Beppe Fenech Adami’s and Francis Zammit Dimech’s comments.
Of course, MaltaToday has obliged and was still updating news at around eleven.
They are lying in bed, now. Even there, they can’t tell the truth.
The ONE NEWS presenter last night said that in the recording RCC implicates “b’mod car” Professor Demarco as one of the persons he suspects to be responsible for his attempted murder.
I recorded the clip which had a transcript of the recording, and played it many times….even pausing it occassionally to read the text carefully.
NOWHERE in the text does RCC claim, or even suggest that Prof De Marco was involved in the attack on his life.
He only said that Guido found it hard to tell Brigadier Calleja that he had to resign and probably told Calleja that this was “Xi cuccata ta’ Richard”.
He then said he was annoyed (understandably I suppose) that Dr. Demarco’s children (top criminal defence lawyers) defended his attackers in court.
Does NOBODY at ONE NEWS or the PL know how to read plain English? – How they came to the conclusion that RCC implicated De Marco is beyond
comprehension.
Unfortunately ONE NEWS is aimed at an audience of illiterate and ignorant people who will believe anything they tell them. Even people commenting here obviously did not read the actual text of the conversation.
On the other hand I think ONE NEWS is actually helping the PN to regain its support as the intelligent majority realises how shameless and disgusting the PL machine really is.
Wasn’t Ian Farrugia found innocent though?
[Daphne – God knows why, when he was a party to the crime. He admitted being there, he admitted accepting the commission to kill, and his handprint was found on the roof of Richard Cachia Caruana’s car. But by that time, the Labour Party had done so much to sabotage the trial – and this when Anglu Farrugia was defence lawyer to Farrugia – that the jurors probably weren’t thinking straight. No, he wasn’t guilty of the actual physical stabbing, but plotting to kill somebody, accepting the commission and actually going there are crimes too. Very serious crimes. Ian Farrugia was later found to have stolen precious oil paintings from Judge Giovanni Bonello’s Valletta house. I see a connection there – the oil paintings with the person who is suspected of commissioning the murder – but let’s not go into it now.]
I’m really stretching my memory now, but I have this mental image of Tucks proudly hugging Ian Farrugia in front of the TV cameras the day he was liberated. (Apologies for messing up the legal jargon here – I need a cup of Earl Grey and some sleep.)
Also, had they ever established who was behind the assassination attempt? Who commissioned the hitmen? Why was Żeppi l-Ħafi’s presidential pardon never revoked if it was granted on condition that he reveals the names of the murderers, which he never did?
Qualcosa non c’entra.
[Daphne – Your last point: you cannot be serious.]
Yes, they’re genuine questions.
Twenty-five years ago, the MLP government secretly signed a pact with North Korea to train the local special police forces against the Maltese population.
Recently the MLP / movement had another secret meeting with North Korean officials, but Jospeh Muscat is not yet willing to discuss what was discussed and agreed.
Given the unthinkable tactics that Muscat and his clique are using to attack those who do not agree with them, I wonder whether the secret meeting was organized so that the MLP officials get up to speed on the latest dodgy ways and means their North Korean counterparts use to suppress their poor citizens / enemies.
They might actually believe that this is the best way to prepare to govern a country. With hindsight, we can say that the last three months were very telling.
The fact that only edited pieces of the recording have been released probably means that much of the illegally taped conversation was not in any way damaging to Richard Cachia Caruana or the Nationalist party.
Mr. Cachia Caruana needs to remember this conversation and confirm this with whoever the other person is, then unleash hell.
Let’s not forget how often Dr Ramona Frendo is on Super One lately. Is she going to be another Labour star candidate?
I’ve always admired that woman so much. It would be a pity if she does that.
“I wouldn’t trust these people to clean out our cess-pit.”
I’ve given up reading the English-language press because they put a distorted slant on events.
You explain things where they create fog.