Scott Dixon and the 11th-hour withdrawal of his boxing match permit: let’s stop beating about the bush
The boxer Scott Dixon organised a series of boxing matches. He got the sponsorship, sold the tickets, rigged everything up for the big event, and then – just ONE HOUR before the thing was due to begin – he got a phone call saying that his police permit had been withdrawn.
The reason given was that there was something wrong with the fencing.
Three sound sources have confirmed separately that the order to withdraw the permit was communicated to the Valletta Police Station by the Police Commissioner.
The Nationalist Party media have covered the story (see video below and also the PN newspaper yesterday), but it makes little sense without the real news-peg.
The peg being used in the ongoing news coverage is that the police withdrew the permit at the 11th hour without an explanation, or with a spurious one. The real peg is that Scott Dixon is the man for whom Stephanie Chircop, the mother of Silvio ‘Do You Know Who I Am?’ Scerri’s two children, left him.
Scerri, who as we all know by now is the Police Minister’s chief of staff, then proceeded to wage war on both Chircop and Dixon. He was held by the police for interrogation about conspiracy in relation to an attempt on Dixon (who faces a drugs trial). I have no further information on what stage that got to.
But I do know that Silvio Scerri is currently undergoing prosecution for causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) to Stephanie Chircop, who filed reports against him with the police on two separate occasions. The case was up for hearing last week but has been postponed because Magistrate Demicoli, who is hearing it, was indisposed.
The concern here is that there may well have been abuse of power, with Scott Dixon’s permit withdrawn summarily ONE HOUR before the boxing event, after he had invested money and sold tickets, out of sheer vindictiveness, because of instructions communicated by the man he had cuckolded – who is now the Police Minister’s chief of staff – to a Police Commissioner who appears to think himself beholden to the Police Minister, so much so that he has his men cook for him.
These are valid concerns, but unfortunately, the Police have so far refused to answer questions put by other sectors of the media.
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Mallia’s chief-of-staff is a wife-beater.
Sums it up really.
Bullies – Cowards – Scum.
Wasn’t this supposed to be the “most feminist” government ever? If this feminist government employs wife beaters what would a chauvinist one do? Employ wife killers?
I used to say that if Labour wins the election, we will go back to the Mintoff era, but it seems we are getting there quicker than I thought.
What low life people – no standards whatsoever.
Brilliant piece, Daphne.
I’ve stopped turning to Times of Malta and the rest for the real news. I come here if I want the news PLUS insight on the matter, or at least an educated judgement of the situation.
Keep it up.
L-aqwa li Malta taghna lkoll and that we’ve now got dee nju style of doing polliticks. Keep it up, Joseph. You’re great. Bollocks.
I too, nowadays, use this blog and http://www.independent.com.mt to get my news. TVM/Radju Malta have started their journey back to the ‘run rabbit run’ period while NET/Radio 101 arrive on the scene 3 days too late and then pussy-foot around the news.
Give the Commissioner of Police some time. Then he will be interviewed and come up with an answer like he did about the Girgenti catering service.
F’ xiex wasalna. Hekk iridu mexxu lil Malta? Shame on this goverment.
L-ikbar basliet huma dawk l-iswiccers illi ghexu l-gvern Laburista ta’ qabel 1987.
F’xiex wasalna ? Hekk konna qabel l-1987
Hekk irridu immexxu Malta ? Hekk kienet immexxija Malta qabel l-1987
Shame on this government ? I wouldn’t say so. Shame on those “basliet” who gave this government the right to revert back to 1987. Prior to March 2013, they did refer to Mintoff years as “glorious”. So the “basliet” have no excuses whatsoever for voting the way they did.
This Labour government is gloriously doing what it promised.
A few days after the election, these “basliet” had no problem in saying that they voted labour, or to publicly claim that they did not bother to vote at all. Today, just three months later, they claim “Who me voted labour ?, Ma tarax !”
Yesterday one of those basal was telling me that the Labour government had started well but was now making some really bad decisions.
She did not really appreciate me telling her that they had made one bad decision after another starting with the decision to ask for the resignation of the Permanent Secretaries and then complaining about a lack of handover (which by the way was also not true – I know that some Permanent Secretaries have tried to contact their successors to give them a handover but in certain cases these successors were unwilling to speak to them).
The problem is that the switchers thought they were on a high moral ground, that they were being courageous by voting Labour. They do not appreciate being told that they are wrong and pride will make quite a few of them reluctant to admit that Labour is making a mess and that PN was far better at administering the country and the economy (which was not running itself but was performing well due to decisions and actions taken by the previous Government).
The problem is that the situation appears to be worse than it was in 1971-72 (from what I hear). Mintoff’s government was bad but it did not start as badly as this one. This started off immediately as very bad and I think we’re in for a lot worse.
Mintoff at least had some control over his underlings. Joseph Muscat appears to have no control over them. He does play up to people’s baser instincts in exactly the same way as Mintoff did though.
The Malta Police Force is fast degenerating into the old MLP police force with its dismal record as was to be expected with the return of old faces.
This is “Malta Taghna Lkoll” as practised unashamedly by Joseph Muscat and Emanuel Mallia. where that “taghna” means “there is room in it only for us MLP diehards” and not even for the fooled “switchers” and their families.
Is there anything in the rules to prevent a convicted wife beater from holding a senior role in a ministry?
If there were such a rule there is nothing to prevent the Prime Minister from issuing another “waiver”.
…or find a loophole…
Under the previous administration, members of the Ministers’ secretariat were subjected to a security check.
There is nothing in the rules preventing a person found guilty by his peers of “endangering the safety of public health and putting illegal medicines on the Maltese market ” from being appointed CEO of the Malta Medicines Authority either.
So a wife-beater is safe.
That’s interesting.
Would Mr. Dixon have a case if he took the Police Commissioner to court for losses incurred?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsJnxlXepsY
We can all change?
Not in Malta we can’t.
Baxxter, your comment reminds me of an old WW 2 story.
An exhausted, dishevelled, dirty platoon was addressed by it’s Captain. ‘After such a stalwart fight, I have decided to reward you. Each of you wil be given a new change of skivvies.’ Happy grins all around,
The captain continued, ‘George will change with Harry, Ralph will change with Joe, Bob will change with Michael—–‘
Sure we can change, Baxxter, but ends up with the SOS, same old shit.
Just get me Adrian, ok? Adrian! Adrrriaaan!
The Police Commissioner should be untouchable, immune to corrupted influence, and deemed so in the eye of Joe Public. This is sickening.
Such a Police Commissioner would be a “persona non grata” to the MLP/LP, witness the rapid sequence of Commissioners of Police in Mintoff’s time until he discovered one who, far from being “immune to corrupted influence”, ended up his career as an inmate of the Corradino Correctional Facility as an accomplice to murder in the Police GHQ.
What does the Police Minister have to say about this? Is it going to be left at that? What kind of fair treatment is Scott Dixon going to have, should he be convicted and sent to prison? What a mess.
I think that Scott Dixon should sue the Police Commissioner for damages.
The thing that gets me is that when you win a case against the Police, they do not pay for damages and legal fees. How can that be equitable?
That means they can take anyone to court on any charges, no matter how absurd, and they have nothing to lose. In fact they have everything to gain. They get days off prosecuting the innocent.
And if a fine is inflicted, it will have to be paid by the abused taxpayers even those who bear no responsibility for the selection of the Prime Minister, for any Minster i/c of the Police or for the choice of Commissioner of Police!
The Police Commissioner will say that he was given orders by his Minister
This government of thugs is really starting to spiral out of control. How the hell is this allowed to happen in the EU. Time to join the Banana Republic Union, the BRU if you like.
Wow.
And I wasn’t aware Scerri’s facing such charges. I really don’t think he should be anywhere near that ministry. Major conflict of interest we have here.
Labour never cease to amaze me, why Silvio went their way.
Wasn’t there a case recently where Silvio tan-Nexos was suspected of hiring a hitman to take care of some bloke? Is this the one?
[Daphne – Sssshhh. That’s the chief of staff to the Police Minister you’re talking about. For shame…]
Wonder who gave him the contact number.
This incident should also send a message to all members of the business community: NOTHING IS GUARANTEED UNDER A LABOUR GOVERNMENT – not even the legally obtained permits for a business activity. So much for the boasting of a Government being business-friendly. U halluna.
According to Net this morning, the permit was withdrawn half an hour before the first fight was to start. For max vindictiveness – Huda go fik Scott.
What is it about people called Silvio?
Dixon is more articulate than any Maltese specimen.
Perhaps it really is the language.
I can’t understand why NET TV doesn’t just tell the whole story. Why is so mealy-mouthed and cautious? Imagine what Super One would have done with a story like that.
L-allegata whole story, Paddling Duck. Dwar l-allegat boxing match organizzat mill-allegat Scott Dixon f’allegat football ground.
Cobwebbed minds, what.
They can’t tell the whole story because a similar thing happened under the P.N administration:
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Courts-relaxed-Dixon-s-bail-conditions-for-charity-boxing-event
It seems that Silvio Scerri does what he wants no matter who is in government.
In my opinion, the Nexos guy might have also been involved in this episode, in view of the fact that the St Julian’s police were involved in the “misunderstanding”
If you don’t agree with us you can still work with us. This is roughly what Muscat said before the elections. Most probably Silvio was not listening to the great leader at that time
According to the organizers the fight was called off one hour not the day before the event.
A point for clarification . Silvio Scerri was accused of beating his partner Stephanie Chircop not his wife from whom he is separated.
[Daphne – It’s still considered wife-beating in English.]
In Britain what we now call “partner” was called a “common-law wife”
The news has just been reported on Net news saying that it is quoting local media. Your blog, Daphne, is being watched all the time.
And so it should.
What a disgrace. Too much is just too much. There really seems no end to the level of depth this administration can sink to. Shame on them.
The real name for the ministry in idiomatic vernacular:
Ministeru Tal-Intern Hazin.
Times of Malta today reports: ” Other shortcomings included the lack of traffic arrangements”.
They cannot be serious: 700 people were attending. Anke ghal quddies ta’ nhar ta’ hadd ikun hemm aktar nies. What a disgrace.
“Do you know who I am?”
“Yes, you’re the one who beat up your woman.”
Terrible the way they done it – sneaky. I wonder what else they’re up to stopping it on the 11th hour, the scumbags.
Oh, this is very interesting.
You are brilliant, Daphne.
Thank you.
If this is all true, veru morna l-bahar qabel qomna.
Wife beater vs Drug dealer…whose side to pick? Hmmmm.
You have to be convicted of a crime before you can be judged or is this not the case in Malta?