Comments on: ‘These Maltese immigrants are savages. Let too many of them into the country, and who knows what they might do.’ https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/these-maltese-immigrants-are-savages-let-too-many-of-them-into-the-country-and-who-knows-what-they-might-do/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sun, 01 Sep 2013 17:47:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Helen https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/these-maltese-immigrants-are-savages-let-too-many-of-them-into-the-country-and-who-knows-what-they-might-do/#comment-1235162 Sun, 01 Sep 2013 17:47:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=35057#comment-1235162 In reply to Sparta.

Oh believe me I don’t think she should have received a lighter sentence or leniency of any kind. There is no excuse for her actions.

She should have left Denis a long time ago, back when she noticed that he was treating her oldest son differently from the other kids.

I was merely relaying her mindset, whether it was wrong or right.

Believe me, I am extremely upset that Ross lost his life and it is doubly upsetting knowing that she was once involved with him and still chose to go along with this diabolical plan.

]]> By: Sparta https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/these-maltese-immigrants-are-savages-let-too-many-of-them-into-the-country-and-who-knows-what-they-might-do/#comment-1213852 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 01:32:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=35057#comment-1213852 In reply to Helen.

Nice story but Diana had plenty of choices. And she chose to lure Ross Heimlich to his death. It was she who got Mr Heimlich alone so that Damien Leo and Denis could Murder him. She deserves every bit of time she is going to receive. All three of them do.
Btw, Damein leo plead guilty to Manslaughter…

]]> By: Helen https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/these-maltese-immigrants-are-savages-let-too-many-of-them-into-the-country-and-who-knows-what-they-might-do/#comment-1186223 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:23:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=35057#comment-1186223 I used to work Diana before she went on to work at Target, the place where she met Ross. We met for lunch late summer before the murder. She told me she’d had an affair with Ross and at that time Denis did not know. At that time I’d known Diana for over a year. I had only seen Denis briefly when I’d pick her up at their house for dinner or when he’d drop her off for work. She would go through phases of wanting to leave then deciding to stay. I think she felt trapped being a single mother of three and working a low wage job. She liked being able to say that she lived in Voorhees, known as the “Success Address” here in South Jersey. I was completely floored when I heard of the charges against her. I lost track of her shortly after our last meetin where she discussed Denis’ s desire to more to Florida. She said he was down there with her youngest son looking for a duplex for them. The plan was for them to each have their own house so that he didn’t have to live w her kids all of the time. She said he’d told her if she didn’t move down w him that she’d never see her son again. She’d hoped that she could get a place of her own and leave him but the only thing she could afford would be in Philly or Camden and she didn’t want to go back to inner city slums. Diana was an extremely beautiful girl, very kind and polite. I often wondered why she stayed with a man old enough to be her father. … and I often wondered why she stayed with him when he only accepted her youngest child. The oldest son he didn’t like and refused to take on their cruises. It was so bad that the child knew how Denis felt and preferred to stay home with a sitter, usually a grandparent who insisted payment for watching their own grandchild. … Diana didn’t have an easy life but she didn’t let it get her down. She lived for her kids and was happy to have them schooled in the Voorhees district. While I in no way condone her actions, I believe she felt she had no choice but to lure Ross… without Denis she would have been homeless. Though it would have been better than killing an innocent young man, going to prison and losing her kids… I’ve spent many nights trying to figure out how the Diana I knew could get caught up in something like this. ..

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/these-maltese-immigrants-are-savages-let-too-many-of-them-into-the-country-and-who-knows-what-they-might-do/#comment-1148262 Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:27:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=35057#comment-1148262 In reply to Catsrbest.

In some US jurisdictions, the accused can plead guilty to a lesser charge. In the Zimmermann case, for instance, the jury could have passed one of three verdicts: innocent, guilty of murder, or guilty of manslaughter.

As always, I stand to be corrected by our legal eagles.

]]> By: mattie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/these-maltese-immigrants-are-savages-let-too-many-of-them-into-the-country-and-who-knows-what-they-might-do/#comment-1148136 Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:52:47 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=35057#comment-1148136 In reply to Min Weber.

Madonna, what an insecure man he must have been to feel jealous of a poor 21 year-old boy, working in a shop to earn some money.

How people of a certain age manage to feel jealous is beyond me.

At 51, the man should have been strong enough to just learn to cope with ‘stupid’ situations of the kind which led him to do what he did.

X’imbarazz.

]]> By: Min Weber https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/these-maltese-immigrants-are-savages-let-too-many-of-them-into-the-country-and-who-knows-what-they-might-do/#comment-1147711 Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:11:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=35057#comment-1147711 In reply to Min Weber.

Why, if it was her lover?

[Daphne – That’s the point, Min. He WASN’T her lover. These were two people in their 20s working in a shop together. They became friends/buddies, as people in their 20s in the 21st century tend to do. The 51-year-old boyfriend felt threatened by this situation.]

]]> By: Snoopy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/these-maltese-immigrants-are-savages-let-too-many-of-them-into-the-country-and-who-knows-what-they-might-do/#comment-1147540 Sun, 21 Jul 2013 19:27:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=35057#comment-1147540 In reply to Catsrbest.

It might be plea-bargaining.

]]> By: ken il malti https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/these-maltese-immigrants-are-savages-let-too-many-of-them-into-the-country-and-who-knows-what-they-might-do/#comment-1147533 Sun, 21 Jul 2013 19:11:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=35057#comment-1147533 In reply to Min Weber.

I agree with Weber, there is more than meets the eye in this case.

]]> By: Catsrbest https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/these-maltese-immigrants-are-savages-let-too-many-of-them-into-the-country-and-who-knows-what-they-might-do/#comment-1147434 Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:05:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=35057#comment-1147434 Why on earth was the sentence reduced to aggravated manslaughter? To me it sounds more of kidnapping plus premeditated murder and it should carry a much harsher sentence, possibly life or the death penalty.

]]> By: Antoine Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/these-maltese-immigrants-are-savages-let-too-many-of-them-into-the-country-and-who-knows-what-they-might-do/#comment-1147287 Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:44:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=35057#comment-1147287 Thankfully, Malta escaped being mentioned in the press report.

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