GM14 is not government property
Manuel Mallia’s drivers, Paul Sheehan and Pawlu L-Machine Gun, with Inspector Gabriel Micallef, whose sister Dolcieanne Micallef/Farrugia is Sheehan’s girlfriend.
The black Mercedes involved in the Wednesday night shoot-out is leased from Burmarrad Commercials. This makes the mad scene with the gun over a broken wing mirror even more unlikely. Not only is that car insured, because it is not a government-owned car, but it is not even the property of the government, so why would the driver have been so agitated.
I’m getting a funny feeling about all this. Why would Smith even have been driving through Nicholas Cottoner street in Gzira at that time in the evening anyway? It’s not as though it’s some kind of thoroughfare or through-road, and there’s no traffic back-log that needs escaping at that time of day.
I wish I could say what I really think right now, but though I’m quite comfortable saying it about Don Manuel and Dolcieanne Micallef/Farrugia’s boyfriend, his driver, we have to give Smith the benefit of the doubt for now.
It’s not so much that things don’t add up, but that they’re adding up to something a lot uglier than immediately apparent. That’s why no explanation based on the available facts suffices and you’re always left with the sensation that there’s something missing.
Face it, nobody pulls a gun because of a broken wing-mirror, at least not this side of Rio de Janeiro or a Mexican drug-town.
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Touche.
I find it quite strange that Smith hasn’t released any kind of statement or spoke to any press.
Most people who have been wronged by a government in the western world would make a meal of it in the press. And rightly so.
Does anyone in this story owe Smith anything and that is why he stopped when he saw the car ?
We have seen the damaged wing mirror on the Merc but not the corresponding damage on Smith’s car, which should be on the left side, carefully hidden from photographers and reporters once put on the low loader.
I keep thinking all the time that we didn’t hear anything from Steve Morrison Smith.
Mallia has to be sacked because he is responsible also for security services, hence possibly influencing phone tapping and other means of intelligence .
That’s the feeling I got right from the outset.
Now that all lies have been exposed, the truth is coming out, slowly.
I never believed the story about the wing mirror.
That must have got damaged during the chase.
Sheehan might not be the ideal home affairs minister’s driver but he is not completely mad either.
He would never have done what he did because of a damaged wing mirror of a car belonging to Burmarrad Commercials. He had the offender’s car registration number and his pals would have tracked it down in minutes.
The serious altercation must have had other motives.
I wonder whether we will ever find out the true story.
Our only hope is if Daphne goes into overdrive with her investigative journalism and if she has luck on her side.
What has to be established is the real link between Sheehan, Smith and possibly also Manuel.
I think you are onto something here, Daphne. What a coincidence Smith is a client of Mallia too.
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/11/27/kurt-farrugia-ma-jichadx-li-hareg-l-istqarrija-mimlija-gideb-dwar-il-kaz-manwel-mallia/
If Kurt Farrugia was involved in the cover-up, then was the Prime Minister aware as well ? then no wonder that Mallia is claiming that he was not involved in the DOI press release. He of course cannot point fingers at OPM. (Or at the PM)
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http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/
invest-in-malta-and-get-shot-at-by-a-government-ministers-driver/
Smith Morrison must have spent a fortune to build that amphibious bus pilot project. Was he promised by Mallia something bigger based on that project ? Like most maltese who were promised something before the election, he is simply being ignored. Trying to get in touch again with Mallia, coul well be the reason of his presence in that street. He noticed the GM14, and assumed that the Minister was in the surroundings.
The driver didn’t like that and things got out of hand.
Once in prison, and asked whether he wanted the help of a lawyer, he grasped the long awaited opportunity and answered that he wanted to speak to Mallia in full awareness that he was the minister of that driver who just shot him. If my guess is correct, he must be desperate to get the promised financing and/or permits for that project.
There’s another point.
There was someone sitting with Sheehan in the car.
Now I know this is Labour and anything goes.. BUT.
Even if it was Sheehan’s brother, should anyone have access and right of entry to a Minister’s car?
What if?
I don’t think it’s necessarily correct.
This is a culture of “anything I need done you do with any of the means at your disposition.” But we are not privvy to the – forgive the term – lateral conditions that lubricate that ease of use.
Certainly bringing colour to my otherwise drab existence. Sheehan’s lawyer was bemoaning the fact that the mobile wasn’t examined. Obviously it would contain evidence of who was phoning who before and after the incident. Fishy that.
It seemed difficult to understand at the time
I will leave it to Edmund Blackadder. “I smell something fishy and I’m not talking about the contents of Baldrick’s apple crumble.”
The puzzle pieces are not all there and the whole matter just doesn’t square up. This sounds like a business deal gone wrong.
I say Paul Sheehan was there to put the frighteners on Steve Smith.
Either Smith is in debt to Mr Toad and is late on his payments or he refused to buy “protection” for his business from the Don or others.
It should all come out in the wash.
We need some sniffer dogs it seems.
Is there a way I can contact you? I want to tell you something about something but not in public.
[Daphne – [email protected]]
My thoughts exactly.
And when you add to this the phone call Smith made to Mallia immediately after being arrested…
‘It’s not as though it’s some kind of thoroughfare or through-road, and there’s no traffic back-log that needs escaping at that time of day.’
Perhaps it was a problem with traffic or is my imagination running away with me?
That’s what I thought immediately when this happened. There’s more to it. As the proverbial saying… Il-huta minn rasha tinten!
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/malta-mp-accused-of-cover-up-over-scot-shooting-1-3612624
Ikolli nghid mar jixtri xi zewg grammi. Issa dalwaqt tigi kwazi legali.
Smith has been too quiet about the whole thing, too discreet.
Not sure where you’re getting at, but your gut feeling is usually right.
However, I used to live in Gzira for 22 years and even nowadays when I pay a visit to my family, on going back home I drive through that street rather from Rue D’Argens and then to Sliema Road to get to the Regional Road and the sole intention would be to avoid the traffic lights turning red in an empty street.
Perhaps Smith was used to driving through this route.
[Daphne – That’s true, I often take that route myself, but only during the day when the traffic is heavy, otherwise there’s no point.]
This is not a government but a criminal network.
I’ll say it: drugs deal gone wrong..
Fully agreed.