Did the Police Minister put in a word for his (ex) clients with the police?
I think we need to be told, don’t you? Not because there necessarily was anything untoward, but in situations of massive conflict of interest, the public’s mind needs to be put at rest.
Here we have a situation where the Police Commissioner is beholden to the Police Minister, a personal friend who pulled out all the stops to have him appointed, even though he wasn’t even a police officer at the time.
And we have two brutally murdered men who were the Police Minister’s clients.
Their bodies were discovered on Friday morning. Within 24 hours, the funeral had taken place already (yesterday).
That was some pretty quick work on the bodies, to have them released for burial so speedily. And not just that, but the family would have been told they’d be released for burial immediately, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to make the arrangements in time.
How convenient.
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I too thought that this was a super-quick autotopsy on two bodies in a murder.
We should wish good luck to the police in their endeavour to apprehend other suspects with the same alacrity as they have released these cadavers for burial. We should also hope that these suspects wouldn’t turn out to be also former clients of the legal firm of the present Hon Minister i/c Police, Army and God knows what else.
Manuel Mallia in charge of God? Timlilux rasu.
Solomon Grundy . . . . died on Saturday buried on Sunday, that’s the end of Solomon Grundy.
My thoughts exactly.
I couldn’t believe it when I heard the news.
At least they were not cremated and an exhumation, if eventually necessary, would still be possible.
Do you think many Maltese are worrying about this? The movement won the election, so they are in power and to many nothing wrong can happen.
Bad things only happen when the nasty Nationalists are in power.
If something like this had happened when the the Nationalists were governing, all hell would have been let loose, and Gonzi would have been blamed for it.
The Labour Opposition would have had a field day as would all the media.
But nowadays the media seems to be hibernating.
Colombo, when something happened during the previous administration, the Labour Opposition would keep harping on about it until they make sure that everybody knows about it.
Where is the Nationalist Opposition today? They only talk about how they’re going to help the government, how they’re going to be a good Opposition, how they’re going to work on raising funds to keep the party going, and in the meantime the government is treading on us all.
They couldn’t even be bothered mentioning Dalligate.
Augustus, you are so right.
The Opposition seems to have taken an overdose of sleeping tablets or else a Trojan horse was elected as leader.
It has become a nightmare trying to figure out what is happening to the PN. All I have heard Simon Busuttil speak about so far has been either an apology to the gay/les/trans community and to contradict Dr. Gonzi on the divorce referendum.
Then he made a bit of a noise on the push-back saga and has been muted since.
Things are not looking so good and I for one am very disappointed with the new leadership style.
That’s right. With this kind of docile opposition Joseph is assured of long time as Prime Minister.
Isn’t there another Camilleri sibling in prison?
Joseph Muscat is the minister for Justice – even though we don’t refer to him by that title.
Isn’t it the inquiring magistrate who releases the bodies of the victims for burial?
I found it strange that on TVM/Xandir Malta news there was a picture of the victims on a bereavement card.
Contrast this with the black immigrant who was killed in Paceville and left on a slab for over a year in the ‘cold room’.
Maybe the Camilleri father and son were blackmailing someone in a high position and that someone took care of business and had them silenced.
My thoughts exactly.
Who ordered the release of the bodies – the magistrate or the minister, or the police commissioner?
I could not believe my ears when I heard the news that funeral was done and over with.
What was all the hurry?
Who released the bodies so fast?
Something may be terribly wrong, and the fact that the victims were clients of Minister Mallia cannot be set aside.
The Police are working fast, very fast.
Murder one day, burial the next.
How very strange.
Very strange indeed.
Honesty is the best policy. But crime pays.
What intrigues me from newspaper reports is, how come that Camilleri Snr with sentences of 16 years in prison was living freely in society? On the other hand, if these big criminals keep eliminating each other, it might not be a bad idea after all.
[Daphne – He had served his time. His prison term was reduced to 12 years from 16 on appeal (the story with the bribe, remember). The appeal judgement was tested and considered to be valid in and of itself, despite the bribe. That business with the bribe was around 12 years ago – yes, time flies – and Camilleri was in prison already.]
We should wish good luck to the police in their endeavour to apprehend other suspects with the same alacrity as they have released these cadavers for burial.
We should also hope that these suspects wouldn’t turn out to be also former clients of the legal firm of the present Hon Minister i/c Police, Army and God knows what else.
Amazing. What also struck me was the speed at which the alleged culprits were arrested. Justice and politics are becoming more like Mafia feuds than anything one would expect in a democratic country.
Malta is becoming one hell of a scary country.
Being a journalist in Malta is the easiest job in the world.
You can do an in-depth interview with the government minister responsible for putting criminals in jail.
And you can do a similar interview with the man responsible for keeping them out of prison in the first place.
How fortunate for our intrepid reporter – it’s THE SAME BLOKE.
What I find unusual is how fast the police managed to track the bodies compared to the other body that was buried at the same site.