Yes, sure. That’s how it works. Go join the chavs, Daphne. You are one of them.

[Daphne – Hardly, Kevin, and you should know. After all, you married one.]

Kev, if as you suggest, you need sound evidence to charge a person in court, then all cases would result in a conviction. But we all know that is not the case.

Why is the Police Commissioner silent on this matter, at least to explain the man in the street why such change of hearth on this matter? Are we being treated like idiots or is there some form of mis-use of powers / responsibilities by the new administration?

No person can ever defend this silence status on this matter now. I deem it is also legitimate that the people expect the state and the media in general to give clear feedback & update of this case.

When can we ever seperate politics from justice?

When is the state ever going to treat the people with dignity and respect what the people expect?

Some things will, regretfully, never change and really, we are still culturally ingrained in the system of “timxi skont lil minn taf, u mhux kemm taf”. What a pity, poor society.

You must be joking. This is a serious case. Any third party evidence needs corroboration, depending on its quality.

In this case, the available evidence is not only weak, but indeed tainted and suspect. This was clearly NOT an objective investigation, but a fishing expedition gone bad.

[Daphne – No, I am not joking. If Silvio Zammit is being tried, then Dalli should be too. The evidence is the same for both.]

No matter what Dalli is/was/does/did, he is, in this specific case, the victim of, at best, a botched investigation, exacerbated by widespread zeal locally and at Commission level to watch him sink to the deepest levels.

And we all know why: his reputation, former minions with the IQ of a duck, special interests and their own minions, enemies old and new, collaborating investigators, both at EU level and locally…

That’s not how a civilised society is supposed to work. You need sound evidence to charge a person in court, not a failed attempt at distorting facts to a choir of baying foes.

[Daphne – ‘You need sound evidence to charge a person in court.’ Not really, as you well know. All you need is an accusation by a third party. Sound evidence is for things like murder trials, and even then….]

Excellent observation, but let us not underestimate that this Maltese citizen was Malta’s own Prisoner in Brussels, whose escape from the system makes Harrison Ford’s performance in The Fugitive look stupid.

Qishom? Jew tassew huma?

Għal tikka mhux “24601”, jaħasra! We’d have our own Maltese Jean Valjean, former prisoner and victim of an unjust system!