Silvio Zammit sold ‘snus’ at his kiosk in Sliema
So it looks like there’s even more to this than meets the eye, and they had some kind of little ‘snus’ thing going on.
Malta now has quite a sizeable Swedish expat community, many of whom work in i-gaming. It was only a matter of time before some enterprising individual spotted a gap in the market, and you know, when you run a kiosk in Sliema you’re bound to know all about a tobacco product like ‘snus’ and work out how to circumvent the EU-wide export ban to get it into Malta and sell it under the counter to Swedes.
How did I find out? Easy. Swedish associates have told me that Peppi’s kiosk is their go-to place for ‘snus’.
So let’s see now. Here we have a European Commissioner for health, working on tobacco legislation, with an EU-wide ban on mouth tobacco called ‘snus’ and a derogation only in Sweden where it is made, whose canvasser and fixer sells ‘snus’ from his kiosk in Sliema, Malta in defiance of the ban.
Meanwhile, the European Commissioner for health holds his chummy business meetings in the very salubrious surroundings of Peppi’s kiosk (in full view of everyone there) where ‘snus’, the ban on which he is supposed to be upholding, is stored beneath the counter.
U le. U le.
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Is she having a laugh?
One couldn’t make it up.
Great ‘sniffing’, Daphne.
And the alleged perpetrator happened to be the GonziPN deputy-mayor of Sliema ! FLIMKIEN KOLLOX POSSIBBLI !
You don’t sniff snus. You shove it under the lip to look like the village idiot.
Allura tort ta’ PM Gonzi la kien PN deputy mayor in Sliema. Bhallikieku in naha ta’ Privitera kollox perfett. Prosit Privitera kemm tara fit-tul.
@Eddy Privitera, is-sindku tal-Marsa kien jaghmel ghas-subien, u skond kif jahdem mohhok Mintoffjan, tort ta’ Gonzi PN ukoll.
Readers worldwide are attached to this blog right now. John Dalli made us worldwide famous.
Hello to all readers worldwide, welcome to the place where ex-ministers feel hard done by when appointed commissioners of the EU.
Well he did say he felt imprisoned, what better way to kill time than resort to tobacco smuggling.
… and do rest assured that most Maltese people are law-abiding citizens, not masters of sleaze and corruption.
I think OLAF had their last laugh.
Thobb l-anatomija Sur Privitera ? Mela ser tifhimni. Anke hawn gejt iddejjaqli z***i ?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
If it is proven – not simply alleged – that snus was being sold at a Silvio Zammit outlet that would justify Dalli’s judicial letter to Zammit warning that he would hold him responsible for any harm to his reputation.
That applies only if it is proven (not assumed without any proof) that Dalli actually knew of this abusive SNUS traffic over and above the alleged condonation of the Zammit/Delfosse negotiations.
Without proof this is only character assassination based on speculation. There can be no doubt that if there is a case to answer in the OLAF documents the Attorney General would bring charges so that justice would take its normal course. What we are witnessing now is an arbitrary judgment after a mock trial in the media.
Besides, if indeed snus was available at Peppi’s Kiosk in Sliema, who was supplying the ‘stuff’?
Did it come through ‘diplomatic’ luggage?
Who at Swedish Match or other enterprise in Sweden, supplied the snus? Will they get away with it even if they broke the rules?
Yes, there is more, much more to this story than meets the eye.
The unprofessional way how OLAF and EU officials are releasing information piecemeal is beyond comprehension.
[Daphne – They are not releasing information piecemeal. They held one press briefing and then issued one formal statement. There is nothing remotely unprofessional about that, but rather the opposite. What was unprofessional was our sending somebody like Dalli there – a man who, as EU Commissioner, sat about at Peppi’s kiosk and asked people to go there for meetings with him. Please don’t try to defend the indefensible. Acknowledge wrong-doing for what it is. That doesn’t constitute ‘letting the side down’. In any case, Dalli is an effing Laburist.]
Din isbah issa ! mela dawk in-nazzjonalisti genwini li qed jikkritikaw lil GonziPn, skond Daphne, dawn saru laburisti ! Dan ir-ragunament mil liema toqba fl-anatomija tieghek hrigtu ?
Thank goodness for the voices of reason of Francis Saliba and Angus Black. I fully concur with their judicious views expressed above and elsewhere on this blog.
I too have lingering doubts about the Olaf Report.
Being Italian, Giovanni Kessler is probably paranoid about the Mafia and the links of politicians with shady businessmen and this is the mindset he has brought to the Office he holds.
Much as I admire the Italians for their fight against the Mafia, they got it all wrong with Andreotti and subjected him to a most distressing investigation and trial based on circumstantial evidence: a kiss in public.
We only have to look at what happened not too long ago to one of our own politicians when a person tried to use his name in order to dupe somebody into giving him large sums of money. Thankfully the scam was discovered and the trickster was brought to justice.
Terrible mistakes do happen and politicians may be wrongly accused too. Nobody, not any body, institution or person is infallible and immune from making mistaken assumptions or putting two and two together and making two hundred and twenty two.
Circumstantial evidence is circumstantial evidence is circumstantial evidence. It is NOT cast-iron evidence and the possibility of a fallacious interpretation of the facts must be considered.
Hence John Dalli has the right – and I would say even the duty – of clearing his name, and that of our country, of this most damaging accusation.
This is not trying to defend the indefensible. On the contrary, it is refusing to make arbitrary judgements when one does not know all the facts – and even more so, it is refusing to subject a person, who is possibly innocent, to great distress and in the wrong forum.
[Daphne – Strange, isn’t it, how it always happens to John Dalli.]
John Dalli’s a ‘nazzjonalist genwin li qed jikkritika il-PN’?
He’s a former EU Commissioner who had to resign in disgrace and is now pinning the blame on one of his useful idiots.
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Leave it up to Eddie Privitera when it comes to diplomatic talk. It comes naturally to him.
I pity you and your type…. wasting your life away, always on the moan. Keep it up however, you are really good at it.
So “the voices of reason” have joined the small coterie of Dalli-huggers in defending the indefensible.
As I said in another post, three strikes and you are out: making a pro-Gaddafi statement and calling rebel casualties “actors”, actively lobbying for Sargas, Swedish Match debacle – all while in the role of EU commissioner and to hell with conflict of interest.
Andreotti wasn’t investigated simply bacause of what an obscure turncoat said, he was implicated in the murder of Pecorelli, journalist, and that of Salvo Lima, his direct representative in the DC who had very close links to the mafia perdente in Palermo.
Fact is, the kiss was considered the least of his troubles. Andreotti never refuted his relation with Lima, nor why Lima was executed in broad daylight. Andreotti was one who didn’t refuse the ‘convivenza’, cohabitation with organised crime. His philosophy brought about the spate of terrorist attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan in 1992 when the parties in power crumbled under Tangentopoli.
What we have in Malta could be similar, an underworld intent on achieving power, or at least hold the state to ransom.
Lestrade, I am really annoyed that you would arbitrarily conclude that ‘ “the voices of reason” have joined the small coterie of Dalli-huggers in defending the indefensible’. NOT IN THE LEAST. And I won`t even bother to answer Eddie Privitera who imagines that a call to be prudent implies `criticism of GonziPN`, as he puts it.
On the contrary, the `voices of reason` (speaking for myself and I believe even for others) hold the Prime Minister, Austin Gatt. Carm Mifsud Bonnici, Richard Cachia Caruana in the highest esteem and blame the three maverick parliamentarians (I won`t even deign to call them `dissenters`) for their unrelenting attacks and attempts to undermine the Government – and yes, even John Dalli for accepting the role of `father confessor` and for appearing so many times in the Labour / Labour-leaning media.
But I still hope – even for the sake of Malta`s name- that the Olaf report got it all wrong in the ex-EU Commissioner`s case. That possibility must be considered too.
Not only that, but I also believe that we should hear what an accused person has to say for himself in his explanation and clarification of the facts before we pass judgement.
I cannot and will not defend John Dalli as he continues to dig deeper and lie about giving the Commissioner of Police information on ‘hackers’ of his e-mail and alleged phone interceptions when the Commissioner denied such report.
Or when he says he issued a ‘judicial letter’ when its existence is in serious doubt.
That was never my point. My point is that in my humble opinion, Barroso and other EU officials, including OLAF handled this issue in an amateurish manner.
If I count correctly, four officials in various capacities made more or less the same statement, varying only slightly in content to give the impression that they were revealing a little more than the previous ones.
If Dalli’s version is to be believed, (partly confirmed by Barroso himself), then yes, he was sloppily treated. An ordinary criminal, long before he is taken to court, is informed what he will be charged with.
All Dalli was told that OLAF had investigated him ‘and arrived at no definite conclusion that he had done anything criminal’ and the closest to a serious charge was that ‘they found evidence that he knew what was going on’, or words to that effect. No one is disputing the right the EU has firing an EU Commissioner on grounds of corruption, but at least Barroso had the obligation of presenting JD with what appeared (in OLAF’s opinion) to be irrefutable evidence of wrongdoing.
OLAF will no doubt be called to make explanations should the AG find enough grounds to proceed against Dalli and it would be most revealing, one expects. Maybe the case should proceed in court when witnesses can be called especially those close to Swedish Match who offered a bribe and had the price been right, I have no doubt they would have paid it.
Unfortunately the way Dalli is acting, continues to expose his weaknesses giving many reason to stop giving him the benefit of the doubt.
I don’t know who his lawyers are but if I were his lawyer, the first thing I would ask him to do, is to shut his bleeping mouth up and take a good vacation and let his mind focus on the reality he finds himself in. Challenging Barroso and other EU officials is the worst decision JD has taken under these circumstances and he will one day soon regret it.
And ex-Commissioner Dalli could kill the story outright by publishing that judicial letter.
He was able to publish an email message sent to Zammit (and not to him) within minutes of being asked to resign.
One imagines that a copy of his judicial letter sent in August is already in his possession so it shouldn’t be too difficult to publish it pronto.
Laugh? I think I’m having a cardiac arrest.
True to form, only in Malta.
Where’s kev when you need a laugh?
Or Privitera for that matter? Oh, he only knows about the Delimara Power Extension fiascos. What would you call the power-outs every weekend when your party ran the show, then?
Brian 14: The power cuts of the 1970s and 1980s used to happen due to the fact that the Marsa Power Station was unable to mt the demand at certain times. TODAY, 30 AND 40 YEARS LATER, GONZIPN IS REVERTING TO THAT SAME POWER STATION FOR OUR ENERGY NEEDS BECAUSE OF THE BWSC FIASCO AT DELIMARA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
It’s not exactly the same power station either. In the 1980s it was run on coal.
Why don’t you set up you own blog Eddy, and leave us all in peace? Here’s a domain name suggestion: gnashingteeth.com
Dear Daphne,
I propose you dump Eddy Privitera’s pearls of wisdom whenever his keyboard acts up and any one of his punctuation or caps keys get stuck.
It’s bad enough reading his rants, but at least they should be well presented.
His contributions have limited entertainment value, in any case. In his defence, nobody expects well reasoned arguments from him. After all he is too long in the tooth to learn new tricks.
Is your “Caps Lock ” key on your keyboard stuck? If not, this is called “flaming” in net-speak and amounts to screaming at the top of your voice; so get some sore throat lozenges at your POYC.
‘Unable to meet demand at certain times’ , yes and when the space shuttle Challenger blew up over Houston ‘we had an anomaly’.
The snus was stored under the counter. The skeletons are still stored in the now partially opened cupboard.
In the interest of transparency I sincerely hope the Attorney General publish comprehensibly OLAF report as soon as possible. If AG refuses, than one can only conclude that OLAF discovered must more information on this extortion.
[Daphne – The Attorney-General can’t publish reports of investigations. I agree with this policy. It’s only decent, and it’s also common sense.]
What I find quite extraordinary is the fact that when John Dalli was notified that he was being investigated by OLAF back in July, the most obvious thing to do would have been to seek a meeting with his president, Jose Barroso, for some clarification and support – even if the meeting is not granted.
And of course, inform the prime minister, who nominated you, and shore up support with people that matter, when being faced with such a serious investigation.
But no, he just kept the whole issue ‘in pectore’, between him and Silvio Zammit, by sending Silvio a judicial letter.
And incredibly in this tiny island of ours, no one got wind of this judicial letter.
Was the judicial letter sent by registered post?
[Daphne – Judicial letters are always sent by recorded delivery.]
“in pectore” is usually used when the Pope is appointing a cardinal whose name cannot be revealed because of negative repercussions; this was usualy used in the halycon days of “freedom’ in the Soviet bloc coutries such as Cardinal Midzenty in Hungary and Cardinal Slipyz in Czechoslovakia.
Can you imagine John Dalli in red slippers with his initial embroidered in gold thread?
That’s it. It’s time we were kicked out of Europe. We can join our North African cousins, where we’ll be free to wallow in our backwardness.
Please look up the mass resignation of the entire Jaques Santer European Commission on 15 March 1999 after a commission of experts did not find one single commissioner who showed the slightest sense of responsibility and the implicated commisioners all refused to resign and could not be individually forced to resign.
That suggests that we are in very good (or bad) company in Europe. and you may choose to think again before pontificating that we Maltese should be kicked out of Europe to join North Africans to wallow in backwardness.
Happy one of my passports is Swiss. Squeaky clean people.
Just had a thought. Want me to adopt you, Baxxter?
Yes please! My parents have already told me I won’t be getting any inheritance, and our relationship has gone sour over the last fifteen years, they being of the “rewards in Heaven” school of thought and an altogether more innocent generation.
Are we still in time to become a Switzerland in the Mediterranean? Then we could all have a Swiss passport.
I am not sure we will be squaky clean people, though.
Welcome aboard, my son.
Squeaky clean people? Why don’t you ask the Jews what they think about the Swiss.
Some Jews are Swiss.
Arab league suits us better.
African Union, maybe?
Leptis Magna’s nice.
Then we can all drive around with AK47s taking potshots at folk we don’t like the look of.
Count me in, H.P.
Daphne, Noel Grima’s article in The Malta Independent on Sunday today was quite revealing about Dalli. What a shame he had a story and never pursued it at the time.
The country would not have been in this mess if the journalists did more investigative reporting.
There are crimes of commission and crimes of omission.
Knowing about an ongoing breakage of the law and not reporting such activity, amounts to a crime of omission.
Shame on all half-ass reporters/journalists.
Wonder what Saviour knows.
Agree Noel Grima’s article is worth reading
We can add the Norwegians who make use of snus.
The view that the network of the Smoking Lobby is far more powerful, ruthless and influential than Dalli and his former position in the EU, is very credible.
The Guardian said:
“Anti-tobacco campaigners are convinced that they are looking at a dirty tricks campaign designed to strangle the new directive (TPD) at birth. But nobody beyond Barroso and a few others knows the strength of the evidence, because Olaf – the EU anti-fraud office – is refusing to release the report that led to Dalli’s downfall. It is now being passed to the Maltese judiciary.”
Swedish Match did their homework well. They reliased that Silvio Zammit was a sitting duck for them.
John Dalli should have been wiser and relaised that Silvio was incompetent for that kind of job. Dalli didn’t need to be associated with Silvio. Dalli, as EU Commissioner was nominated by the Government and didn’t need any votes of the electorate like the MEP.
I suggest we switch to Maltese in a desperate damage limitation exercise.
We must be quickly turning into a global laughing-stock.
If we stick to the vernacular we can limit the spread of our shame to five million max.
Just look at the Americans, losing sleep over Dalli fu**ing up.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article15644385.ab
I think Silvio’s connection with the Swedes is also because he might be a heavy gambler.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article15642764.ab
Another John Dalli interview this time given to the Swedish media.
Headline in today’s European edition of the Wall Street Journal, ‘Swedish Hopes Rise on EU Snus Ban’.
Market worth 2.5 Billion. Looks like Silvio low-balled. Dummy.
DAPHNE, HAVE YOU EVER HEARD HOW IN THE 1960S , CONTRABAND CIGARETTES USEDTO BE SOLD OPENLY IN THE PARLIAMENT LOBBY BY A CERTAIN PERSON FROM FLORIANA, NICKNAMED ” IN-NIFS ” ????
“IN-NIFS” ALSO HAPPENED TO BE A FANATIC PN SUPPORTER !
He also happened to be Maltese (!)
You see, that’s your problem, Privitera. This is not about PN vs MLP. It’s about our abysmally low standards as a nation. Ever since independence, when your hated barrani was chucked out on a whim, we’ve had no one to guide us in the proper use of democracy, government, policy-making, and all the other trappings of a nation-state. Left to our own devices, we could barely….
But wait, let me quote a line which some of you may recognise.
“Left to his own devices, he couldn’t build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.”
Well, we Maltese can’t even make that sandwich.
And that includes PN, MLP, AD, and the whole ruddy Curia.
When we’re sitting in my chalet, high in the alps, admiring the green valleys below, with grazing cows contentedly meandering, chewing their cud, you will regain that international perspective of which I am so fond.
Fear not, Malta will survive in spite of itself. It’s reputation has been besmirched before. is now, and, undoubtedbly will be worsened if the reds gain power.
However, I have faith that the thinking people will prevail.
And, to top it off, the cheese fondue and eau de vie up here are superb.
Privitera knows all about low standards. He votes MLP.
That is, it includes PN, MLP, AD, the Curia – everyone except H. P. Baxxter.
I’ve starved and I’ve slept rough and every day I’m racked by self-doubt, so I’m not taking any lessons in humility from someone like you who’s led a successful life, Mr Saliba.
Mr Baxxter,
I am really sorry about your choice to be the black sheep of your family and about your listed travails.
They are not restricted to your good self and I am not immune to them.
The only lesson I would dare offer is that sour grapes do not contribute to clear thinking. They leave a sour taste in the mouth and a painful indigestion in the stomach.
I lived in Floriana close to where In-Nifs plied his contraband trade (next door to the police station). He continued to sell these cigarettes well into the Mintoffian Socialist era.
Well Keysone Cops were regular customers of “In-Nifs” next door to ABC cinema, purveyors of 70s/80s soft-porn films with the likes of Edwidge Fenech and Carmen Russo.
To Antoine Vella: my father paid for any wrong-doing.
Please let him rest in peace. He passed away 14 years ago but for your information, he let go of his bar in Floriana in 1966, when we moved to another place in Malta.
I do not know who you are but kif jghid il-qawl Malti, kull minn jgholli idejh ghandu xi xomm.
I advise you to get a life and live it and leave other people in peace.
TO Eddy Privitera, I was very surprised to see my father’s nickname mentioned in this blog.
As his daughter I would like to ask you to refrain from using his name in any way before I take you to court. My father passed away 14 years ago and as far as I know you always were respectful to him when he was alive, so please remain so now because otherwise you will have me to deal with.
What his political views were is none of your business or anyone else’s. And about selling contraband cigarettes at the parliament, I would advise you to be extremely careful about what you say.
Grace Cassar, It-tifla tan-Nifs
nothing to do with the scandal, its disgusting, but snus should replace cigarettes as only the health of the person consuming it degraded, no passive smoking
Why should anything replace cigarettes? The argument against tobacco is that it causes social and economic problems by destroying health.
I believe that though snus does not cause lung cancer, it causes the oral type.
omg do you know it’s in Wikipedia too?
omg
Google ‘Swedish government scandals’ and you will have a ball.
After a weekend of thinking this fiasco all through, am I the only who is noticing a trend between the OLAF investigation and the RCC motion?
I have written a short blog post about it: http://hibernatingfrommalta.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/dalligate-and-its-effects-on-malta-and.html
Please feel free to comment and disagree if necessary.
This would be the last nail in the coffin…
Nothing to do with the above post, but today’s gospel made me think of Franco Debono. I wonder what effect it had on him.
Zgur ha jcempel lill-kappillan biex jispjegalu l-Vangelu tal-lum.
I highly suspect that OLAF did not show all the evidence to Dalli. They showed him enough material to have him kicked out.
OLAF would have pictures of some meetings which were organised by his frontman Silvio. That’s the way things are normally done.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article15644385.ab
Too tired to translate, but Google translate usually does a fine job.
Basically painting his restaurant as a “smuggling joint” and well known for people wanting to buy snus in Malta.
I normally hate quoting Aftonbladet, but they are pushing this story quite a bit.
They contacted Dalli, who replied (losely translated):
“Yes, there you go, there’s Zammit’s connection to snus. Had I known I would have told him it’s wrong. I would probably also dealt with it and spoken to customs.”
There is something I still don’t understand.
How did Silvio Zammit’s name come out the first time? The OLAF people never mentioned his name. They just referred to him as a “Maltese entrepreneur”.
So who mentioned his name the first time? If it is John Dalli himself, then that is more than enough proof that he knew what was going on.
John Dalli mentioned the name. I thought so too.
We’re running out of koalas.
Hey!! That’s my call sign. But I’m glad it is used as intended. Your post about this snus stuff gives new meaning to that other ‘saying’ Only in Malta.
Aw Privitera. Forget the cigarettes sold in a bar in Floriana by a nobody and let’s move on to the early eighties when Il-Guy was seen unloading van loads of contraband when he was a Socialist minister.
Guess what, he was fined LM70 for not reporting to customs in Valletta and no mention of the contraband which would have meant confiscation of the goods and his yacht.
Check what Snus is all about at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr_tuvbUCLo
And:
Why is snus illegal in the European Union?
They allow a whole plethora of harmful drugs in the Netherlands, but you can’t use this kind of tobacco?
Chewing tobacco and sniffing tobacco have been seen as very bad for your health for a long time in most of Europe and as such are not allowed.
They have not been allowed in most of the European countries for much longer than there has been an European Union.
They have made an exception for the countries where it was still allowed when they entered into the European Union like Sweden. There you can buy snus, although the rest of Europe does not even know what it is and why people would like to use it.
By the way, there are no drugs allowed in the Netherlands, there is a closed eyes policy on marijuana, but no harmful drugs. And the closed eye policy, while it is working against drugs use as a whole, is still not accepted by the other European countries. But as is the case with snus, the situation that was before the country entered the EU, and it predecessors as the Netherlands was at the start of the earliest stages of the union, is accepted as working reality by the other countries.
OMG. SWISS SQUEAKY CLEAN PEOPLE (apologies for using capitals).
UBS bank in the recent past has been involved in one scandal after the other involving BILLIONS of euros. Where were their internal controls, external auditors, regulators? Yes, squeaky clean.
And we had better not mention the war, shall we – squeaky clean. That is a real insult to the Jews.
Get real, Harry Purdie. Where there is big money there is corruption. Do you for a moment think the tobacco industry (lobby) is squeaky clean as well?
Are you aware that post 9/11 after the very much tightened security on what can be carried in hand luggage, it was still allowed to carry TWO cigarette lighters.
This was secured by the tobacco industry lobby, so people can immediately light a cigarette after their flight. And who granted this? None other than squeaky clean George W Bush.
Do you people understand literary language?
In any case, no one in their right mind would put Malta and Switzerland on the same plane.
What does Switzerland have do do with any of this?
Aha, we have another Kevvy. Btavo.
Let us list the achievements of the Swiss, shall we? Better still, let us compare the quality of life in Switzerland and Malta.
Hang on a minute. I thought it was the Swedes we were bashing, for having the nerve to accuse us brave, habriaka Mediterraneanids of being prone to corruption.
This national defence mechanism has been the undoing of us all.
But back to the quality of life in Switzerland. Just look at Harry. At his age, Maltese men would be a sweat-stained, unwashed, unshaven mass of tanned blubber, manboobs, huge thighs, Blokrete vests and baggy shorts with hairs peeing out of four inches of arse crack. The Swiss must be getting something right after all.
Al Gore grows tobacco.
I can’t honestly think of any reason one would want to use snus. Why would a person want to place in the mouth something so unpleasant, which has the only purpose of causing an addiction to nicotine? The only possible purpose it may have is to ween smokers off cigarettes.
“Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here. This stuff will turn you into a goddamn sexual tyrannosaur, just like me.”
What I see is simple. We are undergoing a political farce where as usual the leader of the Opposition does not hesitate to put into his purse a discarded politician for obvious reasons.
He is becoming so ridiculous that he is failing the obvious for recruiting such rubbish.
I do not wish to speak and judge Dalli. Facts speak for themselves but, If I had to be a politician I would not eat the rubbish my opponent threw in the garbage.
This is exactly what Labour is doing. Every morsel every piece of rot that the Nationalists are discarding is preciously picked up by the leader of the Opposition without realising that the very rot itself is rotting him.
Privitera, meta ha titghallem iggib ruhek bhan-nies? Qieghed tisskanta ghax Zammit v/mayor ta’ Sliema involut fil-problema tas-snus. Mela kemm u aghar is-sindku tal-Marsa?
M’ghandekx kummenti fuq dan? Hallina,la morna, morna, Eddy.
Toni Abela corrected himself when asked if anyone knew about it.
‘Iva konna, erm, kont naf…’