[Daphne – I have deleted your comment because, if you wish to make serious allegations against somebody, you should have the guts and the decency to make them in your own name instead of trying to use me as a parapet to hide behind, expecting me to take the flak on your behalf while you accuse somebody anonymously. Brave man, aren’t you, hiding behind a woman.]

I can confirm what Mr Pace said.

I remember that the name of Gejtu Pace was often in the news.

And Marlene Bonnici.

In the 70s, ‘Siberia’ was the term used for Bighi for PN leaning teachers. Nowadays this comparison can be used as you said.

Young man, it was Labour in the 1970s that transferred me on a very, very regular basis because I outright refused to withdraw a case against two thugs who beat a constable while he was on duty.

I was surreptitiously instructed to drop the case. I stuck by my guns, and every time I wrote my refusal in the file the next day was my transfer day.

One transfer lasted only twenty minutes. I was transferred to Paola police station to start working there at 8a.m. the following day. I reported for duty at Paola. I asked the telephone operator for a cup of tea. He came back immediately telling me: “Sorry sir, the kettle is not ready but your transfer is”, and he showed me the teleprinter message.

Ultimately, my personal dossier file was opened, and an extract was sent to Hamrun police station instructing my Superintendent to order me, “an insubordinate, rebellious, disobedient, undisciplined officer”, to withdraw the case.

If any of these charges would have been proven I would have faced even life imprisonment. I stood my ground for I was in the right, and replied: “If the Commissioner has as much proof in his allegations as I have in this case which I am prosecuting, let him proceed in court as I did.”

Nothing happened except that I stood by my men even at my own expense at times. The greatest thing that happened was that THE TRUTH WON.

Perhaps they are expecting the European Parliament to order an invasion of Malta.

It also shows what the government thinks of the immigrants locked up in the detention camp. Being with them is a punishment.

@Ciccio: mela ma tafx minn hu!?

You missed Edward Scicluna at MFSA.