Inspector Elton Taliana was married to Police Minister Manuel Mallia’s niece (his brother’s daughter)
Deceitfully, Saviour Balzan’s and Roger de Giorgio’s rag today carried a photograph of Inspector Elton Taliana “at a party”, with a pair of manicured women’s hands on his shoulders. The idea is that this is a party animal who can’t be trusted.
I don’t know the man from Adam, but I do know that Malta Today has failed to report one very crucial bit of information: that Inspector Taliana was married for years to Manuel Mallia’s niece, his brother’s daughter. The marriage failed, and was later annulled by the civil courts, when she was caught in adultery and he left her.
This, of course, is yet another reason why the Police Minister and his boundaries-crossing chief of staff should be extra careful about keeping their distance (as if their positions were not reason enough…). But instead, we get the opposite.
Absolutely disgraceful.
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That explains it all. We all know what Mr ZER088 Do you know who I am? likes doing to his / his relative’s ex’s and their new boyfriends.
This is a government of intrigue. We’re getting everything: personal vendettas, palace plots, nepotism, hidden agendas, special waivers, underhanded machinations . . .
It’s like being ruled by a Byzantine court.
[Daphne – Now all we need is some eunuchs.]
Game of Thrones stuff. Who should we cast in the roles lf Varys the spider and Littlefinger? We’re spoilt for choice.
Saviour fits the role of Littlefinger, that of a gossipy little creep whom nobody seems to like or trust.
Eunuchs?
We have a surfeit of them.
And it all started with petty JPO and Hu Go Fik Franco.
Some people I know actually voted Labour to get rid of these two and their personal vendettas. Their short-sightedness is incredible.
That’s Gonzi’s fault for hanging on to them until the end. The incredible short-sightedness was his. History will yet condemn the man.
HP Baxxter, what would YOU have done given the situation the MAN faced with just a one-seat majority? Go for elections?
That was the only exit point and yet again it would have been a Labour victory. Accept the facts and don’t be an armchair critic.
It’s not my job to think of what I would have done because I was never prime minister. But that doesn’t turn Gonzi’s faults into virtues.
If Gonzi had got rid of them earlier, and they could have or would have voted against his government earlier, he would have at least survived as a leader of principle.
Waiting for the end with the same outcome and a probably worse loss showed him up as weak-kneed and desperate. I am with H P on this.
Gonzi should have called their bluff earlier and could have avoided not only such a large embarrassing defeat but more to the point maintained some sort of political balls..if the term exists.
Had Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Franco Debono been chucked out earlier and had that much needed pruning of diseased dead wood resulted in an early election and even if the subsequent general election would still have been won by the LP, that would have been a disaster on a much smaller scale than 36,000 votes and Gonzi himself with all the NP behind him, would now be holding our heads much higher.
. . . try Kenneth, Fred, William and Kevin for starters.
More like the Borgia court imho.
Plenty of eunuchs around.
Any more pieces to this jigsaw puzzle? It’s coming along quite spectacularly.
That would suggest one very strong possible motive why Police Inspector Taliana is being pilloried in the Labour-leaning press because, incredibly, he carried out his duty to a much higher standard than we have been accustomed to expect from the refurbished Malta Police Force under its new (LP) management.
The police corps is going down the drain. First they removed a well-known police commissioner just to put another lackey in his place, then they made the police do the waiters’ jobs.
Now they are trying to remove a well-trained and good police inspector who delivers, and not those idle idiots who man the district stations or the CID yard. Well done.
Why pick on Elton Taliana when according to various press reports, including PBS, no less than FOUR inspectors were involved in the false arraignment of Daryl Borg.
Why was Taliana singled out by the Labour-leaning press when it was HE who (later) arrested the true culprit?
It smells very fishy that four inspectors were involved in this petty-crime incident.
The Bold and the Beautiful, except they’re neither bold nor beautiful.
The Bald and the Bountiful.
With reference to the polyportfolio minister.
Wahda isbah mill-ohra.
And this is not the first such “tailored” action. Allegedly the guy organising that boxing gig, already experienced such treatment when he had permit revoked at the eleventh hour.
And this guy Saviour is always preaching about balanced journalism. U hallina.
Maybe Taliana has photos of Mallia’s family gatherings.
All I wish is that Inspector Taliana stands firm and that all policemen of goodwill and of whatever rank rally around him.
The inspector is an officer and a gentleman.
He’s a decent man .
Aye! There is the rub, actually since “The inspector is an officer and a gentleman”- he posesses qualities not in high demand by the Labour movement.
When I behaved like any decent man and as a medical officer and a gentleman in Mintoff’s Police Force, and when I succeeded to prove that the police evidence before the PSC was perjured testimony, and when I thwarted the a/Commissioner of Police attempt to frame me and to have me dismissed, I was still forced to retire compulsorily incongruously “on grounds of public interest”.
That standard of decency was not in the interest of the MLP and it would seem that it is still unacceptable in the latest version.
If this is what happens to a police officer who arrested the culprit, I’d hate to think what the officers who arrested the wrong must have gone through.
I am just wondering what the columnists who regularly defend this government, or try to downplay its shortcomings, are thinking about this echo of the evil days of the police force in the 80’s.
Do they appreciate that what we are witnessing here are not petty human faults, but a throwback to a perverse abuse of power that has nothing to do with the welfare of the Maltese nation and its people.
Their job should be to stop this evil trend, immediately.
Yours make very interesting reading.Moreover the comments are very informative.The puzzle can be read very well
Labour-leaning commenters know, and actually relish, that today’s police force is acting like a throwback to the evil Mintoff days.
That is why in the pre-election period they fooled the inexperienced new electorate not to look back to those evil days because Muscat promised something new.
He did nothing of the sort and the whole of Malta is now paying a stiff price for the gullibility of 60000 shifters.
Unless the whole Malta society screams its protest, and most emphatically unless the NP leads the way energetically, we are in for a horrible five years of sheer hell.
A government of spite and venom.