When Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando was evicted from the VVIP enclosure at a David Guetta concert, after a drunken scuffle

The chairman of the Malta Council of Science and Technology just before a scuffle broke out two years ago in the VVIP enclosure at a David Guetta concert, from which he was forcibly evicted by security men.

Exactly two years ago, Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando made a drunken pass at another man’s wife and ended up in a scuffle. They were in the ‘VVIP’ enclosure at a David Guetta concert, from which our hero was unceremoniously removed by security men.

The government of the time did not demand his resignation as MCST chairman, nor at any other point when his behaviour deteriorated further, for reasons best known unto itself. In not blasting him to hell, it undermined itself further.

This is the justification that ‘ghax ma tmurx tara x’ghamilt int’ Joseph Muscat will now use for refusing to summon the chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology and demand his resignation.

This is the change for the better for which we are supposed to have voted.

Back then I had uploaded an account of Pullicino Orlando’s drunken scuffle and eviction from the VVIP concert area, together with a photograph. Immediately, Pullicino Orlando sent me the weirdest and most unbelievable explanation, prompting me to suggest to him that he seeks immediate psychiatric counselling.

This is what he wrote to me in his message:

It appears (from what we were told by the attending physician) that two of my friends who were drinking with me at the same table last Sunday must have been drugged.

I felt I should tell u.

If he actually sat down and invented this ‘explanation’, the man is a compulsive liar. And if he really believes his own explanation, then he is delusional.

“I want to clarify that I have no doubt you were not in any way involved” – oh yes, right, because there is some way I could have organised, at a concert I wasn’t at and didn’t even know was on, the spiking of drinks for somebody I didn’t know was there. And why would I bother anyway? I’ve seen him myself, knocking back a whole bottle of whisky in a single sitting, and then ranting and raving unstoppably.

Somebody spiked his drinks, somebody hacked his phone, somebody had him abducted by aliens…the man is disturbed. And he’s the chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology.

X’pajjiz tac-cajt.