The police may come to your place or call or send you a letter to attend for questioning at a police station or at the police head quarters.

You are not obliged to attend but if they have proof that you are involved in a crime they may ask a judge to issue a warrant of arrest.

When under arrest, an arrest warrant is shown to you with the reasons for your arrest. After the Miranda declaration is read to you, you will be asked to submit all you have in your packets and a body search follows after which you will be allowed one phone call. Then you are thrown in a cell until someone comes for you to take you for the interrogation.

There is no search, Miranda declarations or body search when you are asked to attend for questioning. From experience.

[Daphne – From experience, too: being held for questioning and prevented from leaving even when you want to do so constitutes arrest. If you are held overnight, arrest is beyond dispute.]

Then there’s Privitera putting his foot in it, as usual. Jizzattu u jghaffgu.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121115/local/mfsa-reacts-to-criticism-of-its-chairman.445528

Bartolo should have the bloody courage to refrain from using parliamentary privilege if he has to revert to slander.

Unless there’s a clear intention to give us a taste of things to come. Idiots.

Bartolo’s being absolutely disingenuous, that directorship’s declared and is only one of a number the man has, others being in Luxembourg and London. It’s common knowledge in the sector.

How does Evarist think he got all his contacts to be able to build the portfolio of companies registered with the MFSA today?

The truth is Bartolo’s irked at something quite particular, perhaps personal. The usual politician trying his hand at interfering with an autonomous regulator.

Depends how much volume you occupy….then we can perhaps decide on the size of the skip.

It reminds me of an incident few years ago: A magistrate who stormed into the hospital pharmacy and demanded to be given some free medicine, not only because he was an all mighty magistrate, but also because his nephew was working there as a pharmacist.

The medicine he demanded was…. Panadol.

His poor nephew was so embarrassed and had to hide inside the back room telling the other pharmacist “Tell him NO & tell him that I am not here”.

The magistrate, who was all “Don’t you know who I am? Jien, Mr Justice *******” (He was working as a judge in Kosovo at that time) made such an impression that the story went around hospital like wild fire.

Labour are not defending only John Dalli. They are defending all those PN supporters, activists, officials who for obvious reasons decided to harm the PN as much as possible. They, the PL, i.e., must get a larger skip.

[Daphne – John Dalli was not “asked to attend for questioning”. He was held under arrest for a day and a night. If you are held for questioning, you are under arrest. This means that you are locked in and prevented from leaving.]