Bird campaigner and BBC Springwatch presenter Chris Packham interrogated for four hours by Malta police. He has 93,400 followers on Twitter. So guess what happened.
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April 26, 2014 at 10:08pm
Right now, #freechrispackham is the top London trend on Twitter.
Fantastic publicity for Malta, you damned idiots.
As though it’s not bad enough that you’ve interrogated and harassed the person who’s trying to get you to uphold the law. You have to go and forget that you’re doing it under international scrutiny. Malta is not your fiefdom and they are not your birds.
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Hopefully Mojo Jojo is planning to organise some more state dinners and other functions to keep the police commissioner busy doing what he does best.
It seems that Malta is still a police state like it was under the PN. Nothing changes. I suspect that there are many policemen with hunting friends who are keen to protect them.
Is Malta really in the EU? Is this freedom of expression?
What the police is doing is barbaric, especially calling someone a poof.
F*cking hilarious, ten thousand hunters in some of Malta’s finest countryside playing cowboys and Indians during the Easter break.
Maybe we can get Willy Mangion to join in with some of his “air guitar”.
Excuse me, but when exactly was Malta a police state under the PN? This is all Joseph Muscat’s fault.
Hunters were led to believe that they could do what the flip they want to under Labour, and that’s exactly what they have done from March of last year.
So much so that a petition for a referendum was triggered – something that never happened below because a tacit equilibrium had been reached.
But Joseph Muscat wanted those votes, and promised hunters the upper hand, which they took as their ‘right’. So, here we are.
Daphne could tell you herself if Malta was a police state under the PN and it still is under the LP.
In fact this government seems to be more in control of the police than the previous one, especially with Carm Mifsud Bonnici in charge, who in my opinion was not fit for this office.
Oh God, why on earth are we wasting budgets with the Malta Tourism Authority under this government. It is money down the drain with all their constant f… ups.
If the Police Commisioner does not pack his bags after this debacle he will die in harness around the year of the lord 2100.
Resignation for whatever reason is not in the Maltese psyche. This will NEVER happen. It will reflect badly on the PL.
This is better publicity than MTA- Gulia’s pro-hunting advert. Well done for this great campaign to attract tourism to Malta and thanks from hotels and restsurant owners. Keep it up boys!
I am exactly the sort of tourist you need. I have enjoyed holidays in Malta many times and I spend money in shops, hotels and restaurants.
Your economy benefits from people like me. Never again!
I am totally outraged by the behaviour of hunters and I cannot imagine why anyone would want to visit a dangerous war zone.
Everywhere else I have travelled, enjoying the countryside has been a major attraction.
The news that Chris Packham was held by the police is beyond belief. Do you live in a police state? You are supposed to be a part of the European Union.
If you take our money you are obligated to abide by our rules and behave in a civilised manner. Goodbye Malta.
WOW so we will be having a tourist less next year.
What really baffles me is that the same people in whose country, thousand of unborn babies are slaughtered every year can’t stand the shooting of a few birds.
The death of those babies doesn’t damage the fragile ecosystem.
Besides, the point here is the aggression of Maltese hunters and their political backers and their blatant disregard for the law.
Mr Perkins understands this. Silvio Loporto, being Maltese, doesn’t.
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I am totally against cruelty to animals and therefore against hunting .
Your comments vexed me.
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We take your money therefore we abide by your rules and behave in a civilsed manner.
I do hope you re not British , Fox hunting and all.
I am completely against hunting animals for game and I hate to be on this side of the fence, but I felt I had to reply. Your comment was uncalled for, because it was overly arrogant, aggressive, petty and delusional. I felt you crossed the line.
We utilise resources that were made available to us by the EU. This does not make us a colony of the EU or UK. We’re in a Union – whether we take the money or not we (like you) have to abide by the laws passed in the European Parliament.
Regarding tourism, that is your choice, but you’re not going to be spoiled for choice when it comes to finding destinations where bird-hunting is illegal or where there isn’t some form of bad policing.
From your comment you wouldn’t like Malta as a touristic destination anyway, because our countryside is nothing special when compared to the likes of the UK or Germany. Do you really want to spend all that money travelling here to see garigue land when you have the Black Forest in Germany? Come on.
Tourists come here for the sun, sea, food, drink and history … not much else.
Let’s also not get too delusional and forget where you’re coming from. What about the sheer cruelty of fox-hunting? The fact that each street in London is under surveillance?
Or this website http://policestate.co.uk/ Law breaking? What about the British bankers who got bonuses after contributing to the global recession when the Icelandic people imprisoned them?
What about starting illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan putting innocent human lives at risk? Those are THE real warzones.
First of ll I am against hunting, I like to ask c Perkins why he is taking it against those hunters.? Why did the bbc reporter went there in the first place? The hunters they had the licence and beside the season is still open. He was provoking the hunters.
In England they go for partridges, for pigs for foxes and they have hundreds of derogations. The bird life is paying these people to come and hassel the hunters. They are being paid thousands and thousands of euros every year . I have my husband a hunter , the season it’s been opened two weeks and so far he didn’t catch one. With this kind of wind it’s very hard.
The bird life is full off shit daphne. The bbc reporter I will tell him go and see what in your country do and you be better off.
Whatever happened to Manwel Mallia? Is he still the minister responsible for the police-state’s police?
Since when does the police stoop so low and the minister responsible for all this goes into hiding?
This government is afraid of facing the people and the journalists, unlike their predecessors for 25 years.
Dan il-gvern halef li jnitten isem Malta.
Kemm hu gvern imbarazz.
Great promo for tourism. Shouldn’t Zammit Lewis feature in all this ?
If according to the police he was breaking the law and trying to build the whole incedent up to have material for his articles, than whether he has 93000 0r 93000000 followers should not give him any right to provoke people
Silvio Parnis should have organised a coffee morning picnic by the sea. That would have made them look happier for the camera.
If this is not harassment of journalists, I don’t know what is.
Let’s ask Saviour shall we?
In any decent country, we would have a string of resignations, starting with the inept Police Commissioner, the obese Home Secretary and the ‘kemm hu helu’ Justice Minister.
But who said Malta is a decent country?
The Labour Party scum in government have reduced our country to a lawless third-rate place, quickly reaching the ideals of their mentors China and North Korea.
In any decent country, we would have a string of resignations, starting with the inept Police Commissioner, the obese Home Secretary and the ‘kemm hu helu’ Justice Minister.
But who said Malta is a decent country? The Labour Party scum in government have reduced our country to a lawless third rate place, quickly reaching the ideals of their mentors China and North Korea.