Labour-appointed Police Board recommends disciplinary action against police officer who prosecuted the culprit. No disciplinary action against those who prosecuted the wrong man.
I wish I could say that I’m shocked, but I’m not. Been there, done that, lousy experience for 16 years, could see it coming based not on past experience so much as on a proper assessment and analysis of the personalities in the game over the last five years, what they said and how they said it.
They’re crap. And the people who voted for them are crap too. There, I’ve said it. Voted Labour, did you? Well done.
Be proud. Be really proud. I could suggest you get your head examined or your IQ tested, but then I’d be ‘negative’.
Thanks for landing us with this pile of dung. Make it worth your while, won’t you? Be sure to grab as much as you can. Make these five years a real, big supermarket trolley rush.
You know what they say – you might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
People like you are the reason Malta can’t get itself out of the trough, Labour voters. You’re undiscriminating. You have no taste, no brains, you think short-term and you have poor analytical skills. You can’t judge people. You can’t assess situations. You’re a mess, and everybody else has to deal with it.
You know what? It’s not people who vote Nationalist who are ‘negative’. It’s people who vote Labour. People who vote Labour are destructive.
Is this what you voted for? Wow. Really liberal. So very progressive. You’re ridiculous. I don’t even pity you. You can only be laughed at for your vile stupidity.
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You couldn’t have said it any better. And this is just the beginning.
I pity your anger and your negativity. Yes I voted Labour and surely very proud of it. Zmien il buzullotti ghada.. for the next 15 yrs or so… enjoy Daphne.. ENJOY!!
[Daphne – I was not referring to people like you. At your educational level, one would hardly expect any different.]
Żmien il-bużullotti beda’ f’Marzu. U tant intom għamjin li lanqas għadkom indunajtu.
You have very bad English and sound very ignorant. How very negative of me. But I’m a stickler for calling a spade a spade (look that up in the English First Aid).
Why am I not surprised that you vote Labour, and you feel proud, Joey?
Happy, aren’t you? Is Joseph still answering your emails personally? He must have had a really hard time deciphering them.
Have you been given your dream job as messaggier mal-gvern? Are your children receiving more childrins allowers? And how are your electricity bills, are they any easier to pay under Labour?
Enjoy it while you can because believe it or not, by the end of these five years you’re going to be worse off than today, and definitely worse off than me.
And along comes an idiot to prove your point.
Vera Joey. żmien il-bużollotti ‘għada’. Lanqas bil-Malti ma’ taf tikteb mhux ta’ b’xejn kont ebete biżżejjed biex tivvota Labour. Kompli għalaq għajnejk u kkonvinċi lilek innifsek li għamilt xi ħaġa tajba.
Zmien il-buzullotti MHUX ghada imma llum ukoll qeghdin fih!
Hear! Hear! Well said. I’ve been saying it for the last 25 years and I am so glad someone had the balls to say it out loud
PDF of report by Police Board:
http://c1414377.r77.cf3.rackcdn.com/media/news-article/Rapport_Bord_tal-Pulizija.pdf
Amen
Having lived through a decade and a half of Mintoff/KMB-led Labour government, when standard police action was to arrest bomb victims for having their front door blown in by a bomb placed on their doorstep, the outcome of the Police Board hearing was a foregone conclusion to me.
The only thing I wondered about was how the board would manage to manipulate the facts so as to let the guilty parties off the hook and pin the blame on the innocent party.
The question now is whether Judge Franco Depasquale values his continued chairmanship of the Police Board more than he values his integrity, principles and credibility. He can’t keep the first without losing the rest. He has no choice but to resign or be seen as a tool in the hands of abusers.
Re the Hal-Safi inquiry (2005), Malta Today had said that “The lengthy, 97-page report by retired judge Franco Depasquale is just too long,….. is an effective whitewash:….. is neither here nor there. …That’s Judge Depasquale for you: Eleven months of interrogations and investigations, only to yield what reads like a cheap paperback comedy, amusing enough to make you almost forget ……
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2005/12/18/t9.html
What’s Saviour’s opinion of the latest Depasquale work?
Back to the good old days of frame-ups. I just disappointed at former Judge Depasquale for being part of this charade and not speaking out.
Shame on all those switchers – hope that you are satisfied, but I can assure, what goes round, comes around.
Plus ça change…
Had the real culprit not been caught, it was very probable that Darryl Luke Borg would have been found guilty – on the insistence of the police – and sent to prison for a crime he had not committed.
But that’s all right, according to the Police Board, because it’s to be expected that the police make mistakes.
Makes you wonder how many “mistakes” are languishing in a cell right now. Especially where foreigners are concerned.
Very well said, Daphne – they deserve that, and more.
Exactly. They deserve it.
Truly shocking.
As long as the police prosecute the wrong man it is fine with the Police Board.
No questions are asked.
If they prosecute the right man, then they could be in serious trouble.
As I have said before, I just hope I am going mad.
For Malta’s sake.
It’s as if Labour have picked up exactly where they left off in the ’80s. They are not even trying to be the new Labour they professed to be.
What I am surprised about is the speed with which their mask has fallen and how quickly they have managed to destroy so much – not least the public’s respect for the police. They have surpassed all expectations in this respect.
Exactly my thoughts as well. But in my creed – wine can turn to vinegar but vinegar can never turn to wine. That is why I never ever believe or trust the PL.
This expected Police Board report puts to shame – if he can at least understand what it really means – the Prime Minister ‘in persona.’
It also puts to shame all those Maltese who voted for this shambles. What bad judgement.
It is precisely now that PN should WAKE UP and be vociferous in condemning the shameful and unethical conduct of this board, including Judge Franco Depasquale who should resign immediately.
If this judge retains his position, it means that he values it more than his moral integrity.
Everyone seems to be missing the most salient point revealed by this sorry saga.
It seems that our efficient boys in blue can arrest, press charges and keep a person in preventive custody purely on dubious hearsay. This is only one step removed from arbitrary incarceration.
You (Daphne) and anyone else openly challenging Joey and his posse, should be very worried about this turn of events, as I am sure that they can find an “informer” to pin the next hold-up on you.
As regards our oh so professional Fourth Estate, please wake up and do your job before it is to late and you end up facing arrest for publishing an unflattering photo of our Second First Lady or her pudgy assistant/husband.
Do not blame the ordinary man-in-the street for missing the point you make. Even a board headed by a judge missed it.
Arresting a man on the flimsiest of evidence (and I am being too generous) and denying him bail, was not considered important enough to deserve severe censure.
Uncovering this, however, was much, much more serious.
So sadly predictable.
Where is Dottor Debono, the defender of democracy and Law Commissioner? Imagine his reaction had this board been set up by Karm Mifsud Bonnici!
Debono ‘is in’ as much as the Party he voted for is; his silence makes him an accomplice in such an injustice. Law Commissioner, my foot.
Kellu attakk nervuz qal, minhabba Lawrence Gonzi u Karm Mifsud Bonnici.
Ara issa xi gralu. Spicca ruffjan jzomm kollox l-isfel. U jkollu joqghod. Gifa.
Nies bla kuxjenza. Kif ma’ jisthux jidhru quddiem in-nies? Kollhom qdusija. Imorrux ghada jitqarbnu wkoll?
Qed tishon il-qiegha. Bdew jikxfu snienhom.
Well said, Daphne.
It is exactly what I have been thinking since March. Thank you for saying it out loud.
Is it possible that Judge Depasquale is going to keep mum and not give his opinion on this atrocious outcome?
[Daphne – Excuse me? He has given his opinion already: the report. If that were not his opinion, he would have dissented at that stage.]
Dr Depasquale would have “dissented at that stage” only if he did not care to continue to chair the Police Board or any other Board for the duration of the LP government.
You’re right.
I was only hoping to retain some faith in the integrity of certain human beings, who should know better and who have the responsibility of setting a good example.
But alas, I must have been dreaming.
Daphne, I know I have alluded to Jonathon Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ on your blog before.
However, after spending 20 years observing the two political parties in Malta, the irony and remarkable resemblance to Swift’s definitions of the ‘Yahoos’ and the ‘Houyhnhnms’. I feel, is worth repeating on your phenomenal, very upfront and applauded thread.
Swift described the ‘Houyhnhnm’s’ as a race of horses, endowed with reason and intelligence who rule the ‘Yahoos’, a race of degraded, brutish creatures having human form.
Further on, in his novel, he described the Yahoos as ‘the most pernicious race of odious little vermin that nature ever suffered to walk upon the face of the earth’
So there we have it. So many years ago, Jonathon Swift was describing the total devide, in Malta, between calm reason and intelligence, and despicable, self-serving depravity.
I will leave it to your readers to determine the political parties to which this comparison applies.
Why were you so harshly banished, Purdie? Were you caught riding Mrs Swift’s pony?
I can hardly believe it but even Emy Bezzina is calling the report a sham.
Probably because he has not had his iced bun yet.
A final point: on the basis of the report it would seem that the CID proceeded against Daryl Luke Borg without making any attempt to trace the gun used in the hold-up.
Surely this should have been the focus of the investigation particularly considering Mr Borg had no similar priors.
Inspector Taliana on the other hand acted on the basis of material evidence, i.e. the gun and the balaclava. Again this glaring issue is ignored by the Police Board.
Who needs “material evidence” when the CID adds a feather to its cap by its sheer incompetence in “solving” a crime by arresting the wrong person?.
Jason Azzopardi couldn’t put it better. The police force has just been told to stick to this government or face punishment.
Mallia had to call a press conference calling him ‘immature’.
Taliana’s lawyer defined the report as the ultimate exchange of good with bad.
Interesting how Herrera came out, all guns blazing, against another member of cabinet. Perhaps he’s gauging reactions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dptdlWppHDE
‘Nbdilna, issa ejjew maghna’.
Prosecuting the wrong man is in the established (un)hallowed tradition of the CID when the MLP is in government.
As a result of my proven personal experience I would never trust them to do the right thing by an innocent person.
Yes, they are scum, the lot of them.
It’s thanks to them that Malta has crawled into the 21st century. It’s thanks to their rotten and empty brains that Malta cannot move forward. And now we’re heading back. What a waste.
While it is true that with the Nationalist government it was not all roses at least we were not governed by semi-literate and idiotic persons whose main aim is to grab as much as they can in the shortest time possible with a total disregard for human dignity, morality, rules, boundaries and ethics.
The Nationalist government is also partly to blame for this since it let these hideous persons creep slowly but steadily up in government posts and when their beloved Pied Piper played his tune they created all possible problems in government entities and departments, thinking of it as passive resistance.
And the cherry on the cake was that we had enough idiots who consented and believed his lies and voted him into government. But as the saying goes ‘if idiots could fly, the sky would be like an airport.’
How exactly are the PN governments to blame? I do not get it.
This reminds of a wartime cartoon by David Low showing Goebbels holding a woman with TRUTH written across her by the feet, and presenting it to the public as the genuine thing.
Only, substitute TRUTH with JUSTICE and the Nazi minister with the members of the Police Board.
In that celebrated cartoon Low depicted the lady representing truth being held upside down from its feet by Goebbels.
If other judges have managed to form a very thick skin, why not Depasquale? It seems that the era of “gentlemen” has vanished completely.
Thank you Daphne for putting it in such clear language.
Min jahseb li ghadek/ghadna indannati fuq ir-rizultat ta l-elezzjoni jehtieg imur jezamina mohhu. J’Alla jifthu ghajnejhom u jindunaw it-tragedji li qed jigru.
On page 4 of the Police Board report, on the third or fourth line, it is stated that Insp. Mercieca ALSO found it to be normal procedure to ask the duty magistrate to give a warrant for the arrest of Daryl Borg, when he thought he found the culprit.
So then, why was Insp. Taliana said to be in the wrong. He did the same thing with the exception that he actually had the REAL culprit.
One of the best analysis/description of Labour voters I have ever read.