I give up on people – most Maltese must have failed their English comprehension exercises at school. It’s just incredible.
Times of Malta this morning runs a report with information about a note found stuck to the ‘crucified’ cat at Mosta church. The information contained in the note is shocking in the level of detail which indicates quite clearly that the man responsible for all this is Francis Buhagiar, the original suspect and the one first questioned by the police when the first animal was found stuck to the door of the house where he lived before he was jailed for murdering his sister.
He brought out a gun and shot her dead in the mended his ripped jumper.
Times of Malta itself points out that the contents of the note indicate that Buhagiar is responsible.
The newspaper’s report on the note reveals a frighteningly paranoid personality, riven by persecution mania and pathological self-pity, who thinks everybody is laughing at him and has rejected him. In other words, he is a psychiatric case who – as I wrote earlier – should have been in the secure wing of a mental hospital.
He is the elderly generational version of the young men who walk onto college campuses with guns and begin shooting people.
And also as I wrote earlier – apparently this point cannot be driven home strongly enough because people just don’t get it – this is not about the killing of animals but about the fact that this individual will have no qualms about killing people. As it turns out, if Buhagiar is the one, he didn’t have any such qualms and has killed his sister already.
So for heaven’s sake, stop it with the animals and concentrate on the real dangers.
In his note/s, the man mentions a list of people he believes in his paranoia to have wronged him and to be responsible for his plight: his doctor (psychiatrist?), his lawyer, the judge who jailed him, the attorney-general, some woman he claims wronged him, even me – he mentions me by name – for “spewing venom against him”.
So even in his severe paranoia, he is aware of what is being said about him and he has fixated on those who he thinks are responsible for his perceived plight. It is difficult to overlook the fact that all this is going on just down the road from where I live.
The Times of Malta report is vivid with information and details that merits discussion and comment. It is heavy on facts and indicators. But the people who skimmed through the report and commented below have ignored all this and are not even mentioning it, or what the implications are regarding Francis Buhagiar. Their comments are exactly the same as they were yesterday and the days before: ‘I hope the police catch the cat killer’; ‘It is horrible that somebody can do this to animals’; ‘those poor suffering dogs’.
It is enough to make one despair. Have these people read the report and simply not understood it? Hasn’t the information it contains registered on them at all – that this is now no longer about ‘a cat killer’, that it is quite obvious who the person responsible is, that he commissioned third parties to handle those animals, and that now, the identity of the person actually handling the animals is a side issue.
Or did they just read the title of the report, not read the report itself (heavy wisq, ta, too long) and go straight to the comments board?
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140208/local/police-issue-mosta-animal-killer-video.505874#.UvX2eftZiV4
For me, this says it all:
“People were quick to make a big a fuss over an animal, the author writes, but no one felt anything for him. His conclusion therefore was that he was worse than a beast because no one pitied or understood him.”
And he was right to conclude that he is worst than a beast. Why should he be pitied? For me, he is just evil incarnate and evilness should never be pitied.
It is not about pity. It explains his frame of mind.
He may be evil or he may be sick. I am not in a position to judge, But either way he should not be free to roam about as he pleases.
I would not say ‘worse than a beast’. A schizophrenic needing serious and competent psychiatric attention.
Still a human being, however.
[Daphne – Why a schizophrenic? Do you even know what schizophrenia is? These are manifest symptoms of severe persecution mania, not schizophrenia.]
And does anyone know the whereabouts of this man.
[Daphne – Obviously, yes. He’s 83 years old and the police interrogated him a couple of years ago when this thing began.]
So Daphne, you haven’t seen the videos issued by the Police. The culprit of the last crucified animals should be a young and very agile man. Definitely it is not Francis this time round.
I once met Cikku, a long time ago – he is a sharp person, and yes he may suffer from paranoia.
[Daphne – You haven’t read the report: he claims to have paid young drug addicts to do it for him. MAY suffer from paranoia? DOES suffer from paranoia. He shot his sister point blank because she burnt his toast ‘on purpose’.]
Ok he could have hired drug addicts to do the dirty job for him.
The man in the video I saw does not look 83.
[Daphne – If you read the full report in Times of Malta, you will see that the note speaks of the man having paid young people to do the job for him.]
This guy has a severe psychological personality disorder. It’s all about him and he is angry that all who should pay homage to him fail to do so, including God.
This is not a medical condition, where psychiatrists would come into the picture and where he would not be held responsible for his actions. He is fully responsible and needs to be arrested immediately. Honestly, what is the police waiting for?
According to the times paraphrasing of the notes the aggrieved guy says that he is PAYING someone to do the deeds. Did the commentators not pick up on this?
He accuses Dr Giannella Caruana Curran by name but she was actually co-counsel with Dr Emanuel Mallia who is not mentioned, at least in the paraphrasing. Hmmm
All the information revealed so far was available in one 2003 Times article. One wonders if this further reflects on the person/s state of mind or whether it is a too simple solution to the puzzle.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20031106/local/man-73-jailed-for-10-years-over-murder.137214#.UvYKefldV8F
The report includes the usual rubbish about Buhagiar being church-going, as though that’s any sort of qualification.
It has been reportes that the police investigated Mr Buhagiar on similar past incidents and concluded that it is was’t him. In any case, these acts and whoever did them must be condemned.
[Daphne – Yes, well, they didn’t have this note then, did they, David. This is called fresh evidence.]
The police have been in possession of one of the notes since 2011.
I would also add that an equally newsworthy story centres on whether the Police are actually capable of investigating crimes and why the Police did not keep him under surveillance particularly around the dates when the crucifixions took place.
If they failed on something this small, it is little wonder that they are seemingly not making headway on the spate of shootings we’ve seen over the past 3 years.
[Daphne – Can we please stop talking about crucifixions? There WERE NO crucifixions. Crucifixion is a very specific term: it means nailing somebody to a cross to bring about their death. It does not mean tying the corpse of a cat or dog to a cross after they have been killed by other means. ]
Fair enough.
However, the main point here was about the Police Force’s ability, or lack of it, to pursue criminal investigations. It is deeply concerning that they let their main suspect off the hook as they did.
The authority on crucifixions is Angelik Caruana.
And may be also cats and dogs that had died from natural causes.
If I am not mistaken, they are assuming that the animals were killed before they were tied to a cross, not sure, so there is still a possibility that they were crucified, no?
[Daphne – No, there isn’t. Aside from the fact that it is impossible to tie or nail a cat/dog down in that position because it obviously will not hold still and you will be scratched or bitten fiercely while the animal struggles and then escapes, it is not the actual nailing which kills a person in crucifixion, but slow asphyxiation as the body hangs down heavily from the raised arms. The physiognomy of dogs and cats is different to that of humans.]
The gist of the report in The Malta Independent seems to be that the police are convinced that Buhagiar is not their guy. Why is it that the police are so sure it’s not him?
He had been mentioned as a suspect since the very first incident and my understanding is that he always leaves a note with each dead animal, so this last not was not the first batch of clues the police had in their possession.
Given the police’s usual penchant of dragging you to court and asking questions later, I find it hard to imagine why this Buhagiar guy hasn’t already been taken into custody, unless the police somehow know for a fact that it wasn’t him.
[Daphne – To take somebody into custody or prosecute them, you don’t only need a proper suspect, but a proper crime. There is no crime here. People are all so busy bleating on about catching the animal murderer that they haven’t stopped to work out exactly what crime has been committed. The answer is precisely: none. Nailing an animal’s corpse to a bit of wood is not a crime. Leaving dead animals in a public place is not a crime either, but a contravention (dumping or littering). As for the animal cruelty angle, killing a cat or dog is not a crime, which might come as a surprise to many. Cruelty to animals is a crime, and you would first have to prove: 1. that the animals were killed and did not die of natural causes or by accident, 2. that they were killed with disproportionate cruelty, and 3. that X killed them cruelly.]
But in any case, since he claims to be the victim of a frame-up (typical of persecution mania), shouldn’t the police have carried out investigations on who, if anybody, would have a grudge against this man?
Well, I suppose there’s nothing that could be done then.
People just have to put up with finding crucified animal corpses all over the place until the geezer croaks of natural causes, goes on another murdering spree which would give the police a reason to arrest him, or until some “animal lover” crazier than he is decides to take matters into his own hands and we read in The Malta Independent that a Mosta octagenarian was found murdered in his own home.
Surely a court can order his admittance to a mental institution where he can receive proper treatment? The notes contain more than enough evidence of his state of mind. The only missing link is conclusive proof that he is the one who wrote them, which in practice means a confession which will never be forthcoming if everybody keeps ignoring him.
Interesting. Being mentally ill is not a crime either, though. The scope for Police action is thus very limited indeed it seems.
Does this even fall within the health authorities’ remit? I am guessing they would have authority to have him admitted to a mental hospital.
[Daphne – Sectioning under the mental health laws, unless it is at the specific request of the next of kin, is a complicated process that is rarely resorted to, but yes, it is possible.]
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-02-08/news/pm-casts-vote-during-pl-national-executive-election-3906437120/
Dad jeans and the daughter in football kit. The soccer dad.
All the world’s a stage, but this is getting very old, very fast.
Soccer dads can run. This one walks, surrounded by bodyguards because he can’t actually run.
At least we’ve been spared the sycophantic ‘how sweet’ *family guy’ comments under that article.
Maybe people are finally wising up to Muscat the actor?
[Daphne – No, people just can’t stand to have other people’s children stuffed in their faces all the time. The proud possessors of those children never seem to understand this, and when it is a transparent ploy to attract attention, with children obviously used as props without their parents truly being blindly besotted, it gets irritating all the quicker because the manipulation is obvious.]
Football is the new ballet.
Did you read the crap he wrote in the Sunday Times of Malta today? Puerile bullshit, therefore penned by himself, not some minion.
It is quite clear from the details given (48 years since he was a young man) that the author of the note is well advanced in his age, and he is not the one who appears in latest footage. Some other persons are accomplice to his wrong doings.
[Daphne – That is also clear from the details given in the report, in which there are quite a few lines which describe how he paid some drug addict/s to sort out the animals. This would tie in to the eyewitness account of three young people in a car the day the most recent thing happened.]
He needs psychiatric attention before some more gruesome incidents take place. He mentioned people by their names.
How is the Minister for Home Affairs going to handle this cause celebre, given that the obvious culprit was one of his clients?
Is he or is he not going to order the head of catering not to prosecute or to let the very obviously sick man off lightly ghax zbalja?
I’m no psychologist, but it all sounds like a very twisted form of attention-seeking, throwing you, Daphne, into the mix by using the usual tiresome and ridiculous “attakk fahxi” and “velenu” because he thinks people are going to be on his side if he uses that.
The man needs serious medical help.
Unless it is a sedative, medicines won’t fix him. He has a psychological disorder, not a psychiatric one.
He needs psychiatric help first and then maybe psychological treatment.
Perhaps whoever is protecting him needs it too
All that does is indicate who he voted for.
Exactly
To me it’s pretty obvious that someone is trying to frame Francis Buhagiar. The only thing he did not do is to his spell out his surname.
[Daphne – Why would anyone want to frame an 83-year-old man, coincidentally when he is released from prison, or persist at it for two and a half years? Occam’s Razor, for crying out loud. The level of detail in those notes makes it almost certain they are authentic. I don’t mean only the detail of information, but the detail about the emotions. This is a true portrait of somebody suffering from severe paranoia. You would need a very strong creative flair to get into the mind of somebody in such extremis, and even more creative flair to put it into writing.]
What upsets me is you saying, “stop it with the animals”. We animal lovers have always insisted that this guy is a dangerous psychopath.
Is it now because your name was mentioned, and you live in the vicinity, that you are suddenly taking this seriously?
[Daphne – Actually, Marianne, I have written about it regularly, have said exactly the same thing from day one, and have taken it far more seriously than most. I am one of the few pointing out that the danger here is not to animals but to humans. I said so from the beginning, two and a half years before I knew my name was mentioned. If it is indeed Frans Buhagiar, then this is not just a man who could kill a person, but a man who has done so already, and precisely because of his severe paranoia.
There is no such thing as ‘an animal lover’. All animals are different. We like some and we don’t like others. You might sleep with cats but you certainly won’t, I trust, sleep with rats. Also, the hyperbole is irritating. People don’t LOVE animals. They like them. Love is what we feel for just a few individuals in our entire life.
The show-offs who bleat on about dogs and cats are not animal lovers but crass attention seekers.]
Please have some respect for us animal lovers, who know for sure how these poor animals must have suffered!
[Daphne – Exactly how do you know that, Marianne? Because you were there? The mistake you make is to think that the people who ‘love animals’ are all busy pasting pictures of strays and dogs in want of a home, on Facebook, or who keep 20 cats. I have had a lifelong, since childhood, natural-born interest in animals and an instinctive way with them too. I would never call it love because I know what that word means. And I also know that animals are not only dogs and cats, which is what they are to Maltese ‘animal lovers’.]
We also know that our animals are not safe until this psycho is locked away. We live to protect the lives of our dogs, and cats, and you keeps dogs to protect you & yours. So please have some respect!
[Daphne – How presumptuous you are, my dear, but that fits entirely with the stupidity of somebody who talks about ‘animal lovers’. Any human being who lives to protect the lives of his or her dogs and cats needs to have his or her head examined and confirms the popular notion that when individuals become fixated on dogs and cats and anthropomorphises them, those dogs and cats (but usually cats) are merely serving as child substitutes. That’s why it’s usually women of a certain age who go down this particular road and end up a caricature. I keep dogs for the same reason I have always done: I like them. The fact that they feel it imperative to protect me only means that the sentiment is reciprocated. Dogs are dogs, Marianne. Cats are cats. And people are people. Get your priorities in order.]
We Maltese are animal lovers – we love rabbit, chicken, horse, quail, octopus and snails.
Go to 5:25
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg1jGUrRhmQ
Only two of those are companion animals.
With this kind of (lack of) logic, Marianne, I can now understand why so-called sane people make the wrong choices which can affect their lives and ours, drastically.
“We live to protect the lives of our dogs and cats”.
So says Ms Saliba.
How sad. How very sad.
In my humble opinion.
Poor thing.
The lady needs as much help as Buhagiar.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140210/world/zoo-kills-healthy-young-giraffe-feeds-to-lions.506199#.UviGJs3QQXw
This cruelty was done in Copenhagen.
I have dogs and cats at home, but I also have two kids (a 4 year old and a 5 months old)…not merely serving as child substitutes!
[Daphne – That is hardly the point, Naomi. Dogs, cats and children coexist in many households. They certainly coexisted in mine.]
You see this is the difference between good investigative journalism and the sort of “cut and paste” job done by most so called journalists on this island! They miss the wood from the trees and the actual danger which is the real issue from a story they feel would sell more….
I think that if someone puts a note he will usually try to either conceal his identity or give very subtle clues. This note seems to be made in a way that points directly to a person which makes me believe the intention is to divert attention.
[Daphne – I doubt it. It has the ring of authenticity about it. And how many people know that Francis Buhagiar was seeing a psychiatrist?]
Maybe it is somebody who saw him waiting. Dr. Cassar used to see patients in Mosta.
[Daphne – Oh come on.]
Well, it was actually written in the reporting when he was in court for shooting his sister.
And all the names mentioned in the note are written in the newspaper reports – the Attorney General, Dr Gianella Caruana Curran, and Judge Galea Debono. So anyone wanting to frame him need only have read up on his case and all details were available.
[Daphne – I’m afraid this sort of reasoning makes me despair. No, the details were not all available in newspaper reports. There are details about his life which were not publicly available. And there is the perfect portrayal of a paranoid mind which, if it is a work of fiction, means that there’s a new William Trevor living in Mosta and speaking Mosti. And in any case, WHY would anyone want to do all this just so that somebody else gets blamed? Blame alone is not an end in itself. The blame would be the means to an end, and exactly what end can there be to having an 83-year-old man fined for littering or dumping dead animals in a public place?]
In the first such incident, the cat was pinned to the front door of the house where Buhagiar lived when he shot his sister.
If he wanted recognition he might as well have owned up.
To me it looks obvious that the real perpetrator is seeking a thrill and deliberatly leaving clues pointing at Buhagiar. The notes do not seem to include any more detail than what was already reported in the press.
The person actually placing the animals on site doesn’t look like someone who is in a hurry to just get what he got paid to do over and done with.
Anyone doing it for the money would have left them there and ran. This guy takes far more trouble getting them to harder to reach spots.
[Daphne – It is not at all hard to reach the parvis of Mosta church, and if they were paid to hang those objects, then they had to hang them so as to collect their payment. After all, the entire media reports how and where they were found, and they could hardly get away with just tossing them onto the ground.]
‘…għebet it-tama li jsib mara li tħobbu. Għex bit-torment ta’ mara oħra u ttorturat bl-ilsien valenu tan-nies minbarra li Alla warrbu.’
The animals just offerings to effigies for indulgence. You’re right, just a matter of time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy6qX2RNoTU
I have been ridiculing those people starting and signing petitions calling for the police to catch the perpetrator.
However I think I’m going to join them now. The notes say it all. It’s plain as day that Frangisku Buhagiar is behind all this. Why on earth haven’t the police arrested him? Are they waiting for him to sign his name at the end? Can’t they compare handwritings if all notes show signs of the same calligraphy?
Give me a petition to sign.
If this old nut case is paying drug addicts to do his dirty deeds then these drug addicts and their pals might be enticed with a worthwhile large monetary reward to spill the beans on this old psycho.
The comments you mention are written by those who adore animals in an unhealthy way. The same people who find it hard to distinguish between having pets and having children.
The same people who wouldn’t mind changing cat litter even if pregnant or find it hard to keep their pet dog a safe distance from prams. Just another mini-society in a pool of societies in Malta.
Animals should not be harmed, never, and we can only condemn such actions. As you say though, readers should focus first on the primary problem, which is definitely not the poor animals and their macabre and sad end.
[Daphne – We have no way of knowing whether their end was macabre or sad.]
Come on, you’re pushing it a bit. Animal cruelty was obviously involved here; if you’re comfortable nailing a dead dog or cat to a cross, you’d definitely be comfortable doing a lot more to it.
[Daphne – A total non sequitur. Charges of animal cruelty apply to something one has done already, and not something one might do. ‘Something one might do’ comes into play only with that part of our law which permits the sectioning of an individual under mental health provisions, to prevent him causing harm to himself or others. It may come as a surprise to you that no particular character traits are required for nailing a dead cat to a bit of wood. By your definition, all butchers should be arrested as potential murderers.]
I agree some are being melodramatic about it, but it is worrisome that there’s an individual who is hiring others to kill and dump animals. Whatever else he’s capable of is obviously far more serious but people can legitimately be concerned about the pointless animal cruelty, even if it isn’t illegal.
[Daphne – I’m sorry, but I can’t agree with you or even see your point. This is of concern only because the individual is unstable, and not because cats are being killed. Regardless of the sentiments of the Hallmark card crowd, cats are just another animal. If people who feel this way about cats were consistent, they would be permanently encamped outside the abattoir, protesting.]
Mental illnesses and psychological disorders are hugely underestimated. And the sufferers tend to end up in the news with their paranoia and self-centredness, classic symptoms of many psychological disorders rather than character traits. We’ve had several such cases.
[Daphne – Yes, you are right. And in Malta they are treated as normal by the press and the public and appointed to top posts by the government. To be considered psychologically disturbed in Malta you have to wander the streets wearing torn clothes and mismatched shoes, muttering to yourself, because people literally do not understand what psychological disorders are. Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and the rest of the persecution-mania freaks are, on the other hand, treated as entirely normal because they put on neat suits and go to work, so all the glaring signs of mania are ignored.]
Treated as normal? Then how about this: convicted criminals are treated as normal, law-abiding, innocent-even-though-proven-guilty citizens.
“Notorius Cikku Fenech passes away”, bleats The Malta Independent, regaling us with a photo of the murderer plus ridiculous jacked-up criminal lawyer Joe Mifsud. ‘Passes away’. I almost have tears in my eyes. Farewell, ‘dedicated farmer’.
What. A. Load. Of. Tosh.
How about this for a headline:
MURDERER CIKKU FENECH DIES
A very good headline, Baxxter. However, do you think our current crop of ‘journalists’ would take such a risk? Even they are not ‘normal’. Hypocrites would be a better adjective.
What has become of Franco Debono?
You are right about this. People also elect oddballs to parliament and the PM bestows on them the responsibility of a ministry.
Take Joe Mizzi, a man only capable of parroting on the media what others tell him to say, confirming he does not have a mind of his own.
When interviewed, he tries to portray himself to be an expert on oil exploration and even claims to know where Malta’s oil reservoirs are located (watch his interview on Bondi+ of some years ago, now on You-tube).
People should ask (but they don’t) from where his ‘esoteric’ expertise on oil springs. It seems that his expertise comes from having worked for two years as a radio operator on an oil exploration ship some 40 years ago.
By analogy, it is like someone who used to wash the floor of an operating theatre some 40 years ago and now turning up at Mater Dei Hospital claiming to be a top surgeon and that he should now run the hospital. Raving mad.
It is a recurrent fatal error to dismiss lightly the aggressive behaviour of paranoid patients, with fatal consequences. Even when the culprit appears to be too old to do anything himself there are always desperate drug addicts willing to do anything for the price of a dose of heroin or cocaine.
How right you are. This man is suffering from acute persecution mania and paranoid delusions and should be locked up in a mental institution for what’s left of his life before he goes on a killing spree, even if it means paying others to do it for him.
And this time, it will not be cats or dogs who will end up dead.
All clues point to that old man. But don’t you think the notes reveal too much about this old guy? I think it’s more someone who wishes to put the blame on him.
I doubt how much this man knows how to read and write let alone know what Daphne has written about him or if he himself wrote that notes. It’s too simple a solution to these macabre killings.
[Daphne – Occam’s razor: the likelihood of having somebody capable of writing at psychological-thriller level in the village of Mosta is next to zero. Have you any idea what level of skill it takes to get into the mind of somebody in the grip of severe paranoia, and to recreate in writing the turbulent emotions and fixations of a persecution pathology? I’m a fairly competent writer, can research these disorders and have some insight into human behaviour, but I wouldn’t be able to forge the note of somebody clearly in the grip of mania.]
If it’s someone close to him, who speaks with him regularly, he will be familiar with the ramblings of Francis Buhagiar’s paranoid mind.
If for some reason he wants to frame Buhagiar, he will know the facts.
In this context, Occam’s razor can be scrapped, because he wouldn’t need to imagine what goes on in a paranoid mind – he would have actually heard the thoughts.
[Daphne – Sigh. NO. Occam’s razor starts at the beginning: 1. WHY would anybody want to frame Francis Buhagiar, 2. WHY would this person spend two and a half years doing it, and 3. WHY would this person choose, as the means of framing him, something that is not a crime? Scattering dead cats and dogs around is not a crime but a contravention: littering.]
This man needs to be locked up – and not in a prison.
I’ve been following these killings since they started, and the fact that the police revealed all this information in the last trwo days, when they never revealed anything in two years, makes think that they are either extremely close to catching the guy (as in waiting for arrest warrant to be issued) or that they are completely at a loss.
In Malta we are not familiar with serial killers, and I do believe that the poilce need help from a foreign forensic psychologist/pyschiatrist with experience in profiling serial killers.
As to the person who is doing the actual killings and writing the notes, from my limited knowledge, I would either say that it is actually Francis Buhagiar who has completely lost his marbles and is directing the police to him, who knows, he may actually have liked it in prison.
Or else, it’s someone who really hates Francis Buhagiar for some reason, and is doing his best to frame him. If the latter is the case, our police are being well and truly taken for a ride.
This guy has nothing to do with frangisku. He is a guy that has a softspot for war and crime stories. He knows Buhagiars story inside out as it intersted him since he loves these things and now he is creating his own movie. Thats all he can do with his clever mind, since he has a patetic life of his own. Also he is doing mistakes as he is Not getting what he wanted, he wanted to scare people but instead ppl are full of hatred and thats the only feeling he managed to ‘create’. Again in his little movie he failed exactly like in his real life. He is a guy that is always with a smile, but empty inside!
“The information contained in the note is shocking in the level of detail which indicates quite clearly that the man responsible for all this is Francis Buhagiar, the original suspect and the one first questioned by the police when the first animal was found stuck to the door of the house where he lived before he was jailed for murdering his sister.”
Published: SATURDAY, February 8, 2014 AT 10:51AM, Daphne Caruana Galizia’s Notebook
The Sunday Times published: SUNDAY, February 9, 2014, 08:09
“Forensic psychologist: Notes with crucified animals point to convicted murderer.”
What can one say? Come to Malta for a guaranteed dose of frustration, exasperation, disbelief?
[Daphne – Don’t be surprised. Maltese people as a rule have really poor insight into human nature and can’t read personalities accurately or recognize the signs of personality disorders. That’s why politicians (including ex politicians) with signs of persecution mania – and there have been at least four of those in the news over the last few years – are treated as normal by the electorate and the media, and their relentless self-pity and paranoia, which are manifest signs of a pathology, are instead successfully put across to the public as valid and justified cause for sympathy (“Ghandu ragun, ta”.).]
http://www.ilgiornale.it/
Hi all,
I think that there is a clear connection between Mr Buhagiar and the responsible of these acts. It can be a sort of empathy/compassion or a real connection (someone who saw the relation between Mr B. and his sister day by day ?).Someone who found analogies in their life reading about his murder on the newspapers ? Young people can be manipulated unfortunately using money or drugs in change of other.The responsible of this note looks just to say that people suffer asking love and no one take care of them. He feels victim of people who judge him on appearance. Yes, sure, his/their mind can be probably affected by a sort of pathology or a mental disease or drug abuse. He is claiming attention, probably one person who hate how people are so cute with pets (more than with other people).A person socially left out.A person very angry and much dangerous.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26108597
No more freedom of movement from the EU to Switzerland – there will be strict control.
Switzerland would be introducing a migration quota.
The EU needs a passport salesman to renegotiate with the Swiss or we can just send Henley and Partners to dissuade them from this decision.
No hope, Gahan. The Swiss have spoken. And they don’t back off.
How right you are, Daphne, about what an animal lover is.
Yes, I met a lot of animal lovers lately at a fenkata in Mgarr.
Ghax bilhaqq dawk mhux annimali.
The legal dilemma is this – is there a law against paying someone to dump a carcass of a dog or a cat nailed on a cross, in a public place at dead of night? It is sick, but is it illegal?