Indications are intensifying that Manuel Mallia’s driver could have been involved in a drug deal
Suspicions are intensifying that his driver was involved in a drug deal. Smith has kept silent and details of his arrest have been abusively deleted from police records. Smith asked for Mallia while he was in custody. Investigators do not believe the ‘hit and run’ story.
Gut instinct tends to be right, largely because it isn’t gut instinct at all but our conscious and subconscious picking up details we are barely aware of observing, and linking them together.
Gut instinct told most of us that nobody draws a gun about a smashed wing mirror on a car leased from a commercial company and which is covered by insurance.
Nobody draws a gun about a smashed wing mirror, full stop. Nor do you shoot at a man twice about a smashed wing mirror, and then chase him, perhaps even firing while driving.
That’s the kind of behaviour you get in a drug deal gone wrong.
Most of us over-rode our gut instinct because the fact of a minister of state’s driver shooting at somebody after a car accident was treated as normal even while it is completely abnormal for the times we live in.
But the fact that Smith asked for Manuel Mallia while in custody – he knows he is a minister of state and not working as a defence lawyer – instantly triggered alarm bells.
And Smith has kept completely silent in a situation where you would want to speak out. This has only served to compound matters. It’s not looking good at all.
Today we read in the newspapers that details about Smith’s arrest and his supposed breathalyzer test have been deleted from the police records by somebody who entered the PIRS database using a “third-party password”.
This level of corruption and abuse indicates that somebody quite senior has a lot to lose if the real facts about the encounter between Manuel Mallia’s driver and Smith emerge.
The Police Minister’s driver shooting at somebody because of a smashed wing mirror is bad. But the Police Minister’s driver shooting at a drug or usury client (I tend to favour the former explanation) is incalculably worse. There is no way Manuel Mallia would get out of this one alive, especially given his professional links to the drug world as a defence lawyer to some of Malta’s most notorious traffickers.
I should add here that Inspector Gabriel Micallef, whose sister Dolcieanne Farrugia (Micallef) is involved in a relationship with Mallia’s driver, and who was first on the scene in the tunnels not as a police officer but as Sheehan’s girlfriend’s brother – in other words, for personal support – is a member of the Police Drug Squad. The police officer for whom he left his wife, WPC Carmen Gauci, was also in the Drug Squad but was at some point transferred out and to a district police station.
Mark Micallef also reports in The Sunday Times that somebody was seen removing wasted cartridges from the street where the shooting occurred soon after it happened (in fact, I had received reports of this that same night, but they were anonymous and I wasn’t sure I should report them as reliable). He reports, too, that investigators are now questioning the ‘hit and run’ explanation and are looking at a possible connection between Mallia’s driver and Smith which “predates the incident”.
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Which brings us to the back of the Mercedes, an open boot, people who shouldn’t have been there, and what do look like factory solid lines left hanging from their ends under the car.
Call it the mule.
Brava.
So one should NOT assume that all the police on the scene weren’t doing their job. Is it possible they were simply carrying out their duties. Maybe they where C.I.D.
[Daphne – The police officers on the scene who were doing their job were in uniform. The other police officers in normal clothes were Manuel Mallia’s other driver, Paul Sheenan himself, and his girlfriend’s brother. And no, they weren’t doing their job.]
As they say in Maltese: Il-ħuta minn rasha tinten!
I am beingpressed to believe that ANY of the police present at the crime scene was doing what he/she was supposed to do, to preserve a crime scene from contamination by anyone at all, least of whom the alleged criminal himself (Sheehan)!
Are we excused for doubting whether the whole set-up is fiction or truth?
The fruit does not fall far from the tree.
The next question is: Why is Sheehan such an important person to cover up for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IIov6kM6ms
Perhaps we should ask the UK’s GCHQ to help us out:
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-30/local-news/Snowden-documents-show-Malta-s-internet-links-tapped-by-GCHQ-6736126605
Which would explain Smith’s aversion to the press.
As soon as I heard that Paul Sheehan drinks 24 Red Bulls a day, my gut instinct also told me that Paul Sheehan is a coke user himself, which makes Manuel Mallia’s trust in him, especially with his children, even crazier.
My gut instinct tells me that it’s not Red Bull he’s addicted to but cocaine. Red Bull is just an easy to find a substitute during the day while his working, which keeps him going until he can get the next fix.
How many turkeys voted for this particular Christmas.
Can the public feel secure when this web of dubious dealings surrounds the very ministry that is supposed to protect it from?
Can the alacrity with which the driver’s friends were on the spot, and tampering with the evidence took place, be accidental?
And was the Minister responsible for the police sitting on all this and completely unaware of what was happening, to the extent that official statements followed by a press conference that he gave tended to favour the driver?
One question has not been asked. What made Mr Smith drive in a street that can be described as a side-street rather than a main thoroughfare?
I always suspected that Mr “money loving” Toad has a lot of money to lend at exorbitant interest rates that get him far better returns than the normal bank’s 1.5 to 2 per cent, a bank rate that is far below the real inflation rate.
Drugs on Malta can be gotten from the long established and sanctified official dealers.
The expected police palm greasing (aka”the cut”) by these official agents or dealers is at arm’s length and done at police official high levels and on a need-to-know-basis and has been going on for decades.
Nothing is out of the ordinary here.
I agree fully. The story up till now does not add up.
If this were a normal country not even the Prime Minister’s position would be tenable.
And Labour’s crusade to decriminalize drugs would start making sense, too.
Did you pull that photo from someone’s Instagram?
‘bob-a-job says:
November 27, 2014 at 10:39 pm
‘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?’
It is seeming more and more obvious that it was a traffic problem and my imagination was not running away with me after all.
My friend and I were discussing this incident only a little time after it happened. We agreed that”Hemm xi haga tinten.Its’ eiither drugs or prostitution.
Daphne, investigate a little bit whether it is true that JPO’s gun (with which he threatened his then wife Marlene Farrugia) is still being held by the Police.
Well, pity Sheehan was not arrested and investigated right away.
God only knows how much more incriminating evidence he and his friends managed to sweep under the carpet in a week.
I am seriously wondering if the minister of police knew certain things about Sheehan before the incident and chose to turn a blind eye.
In all probability Smith’s silence is golden.
That explains the extensive property owned by Inspector Gabriel Micallef’s father, Senior Inspector Frans Id-Devil Micallef – all bought off a police inspector’s salary, no doubt.
If there is a connection between Smith and Sheehan, then the burden on Mallia having to resign from office is even greater.
In the meantime look at the misogynist Varist and his crass comparisons: http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-30/local-news/PN-undergoing-hymen-restoration-surgery-to-become-a-virgin-again-Evarist-Bartolo-6736126620
Your thoughts came to mind as soon as I saw the broken side mirror of Sheehan’s car which was smashed to the point as though someone used a hammer (there was a picture of it, but can’t find it) and then saw Smith’s car side mirrors without a single scratch.
The first name that sprung to mind when I first read about this incident was that of President Noriega of Panama.
Inexplicable, because this is not a household name easy to remember.
Every new detail about this incident just kept hammering that name into my head.
Events since January 2013, maybe even before, kept that name NORIEGA disturbingly alive in my mind.
My comments on 22nd November were “Was this an illicit deal gone sour?
The crime scene was tampered with so we cannot ever know unless a second inquiry is called.
It is clear that the police security was desperate to stop the runaway car and its driver by all means.”
Nobody in his right mind fires three 9mm bullets or maybe more, at a person, for a minor traffic accident.
PC 533 was shooting to kill. Drug dealers are usually coked up and paranoid. This smacks of a deal gone wrong.
How are we to have trust in the police force to investigate rigorously when the crime scene was compromised and the minister and his cronies are still in the picture.
The piovra’s tentacles are ever reaching.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-30/local-news/I-will-not-be-afraid-to-take-decisions-PM-on-Gzira-shooting-incident-6736126619
‘…He also referred to the honoraria dispute, saying that he was surprised to learn that the former Cabinet members had returned only a small part of the honoraria they had received in the previous legislature. Simon Busuttil is still surrounded by people who have kept €1.3 million to themselves, he said…’
Why don’t they just sue him en bloc for slander? He implies ‘they’ somehow misappropriated themselves of public money.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-30/local-news/PN-undergoing-hymen-restoration-surgery-to-become-a-virgin-again-Evarist-Bartolo-6736126620
Don’t they just love it.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-30/-news/PN-undergoing-hymen-restoration-surgery-to-become-a-virgin-again-Evarist-Bartolo-6736126620
Dan bis-serjeta? Another call for resignation is in order, considering he is the Minister responsible for educating our children.
Scum.
Muscat will now probably dump Mallia and try to emerge as the hero who did the right thing. I have a feeling that the enquiry will decide against Mallia.
It remains to be seen how Mallia will react.
My question about why Smith was there in the first place seems to be about to be answered. It was a deal gone wrong. The details of the deal need to emerge and who else is involved in OPM in the cover up.
The whole episode and its repercussions simply stink to high heavens.
Whose head/s will roll?
The Prime Minister appears to have taken a threatening stand. “I will not be afraid to take decisions”.
Will he or won’t he? That is the (500,000 Euro?) question?
It was obvious the broken mirror is just a red herring. You have to know someone, and that someone must leave you really pissed off to car-chase him and shoot when you can’t catch up with him. Possibly because he’s left you short-changed for something.
Labour: Mafia Taghna Lkoll.
Was Michael Cassar, who is know to be serious about his work, removed from the drug squad by Manuel Mallia/Silvio Scerri or from the secret service?
The question which follows naturally from all the above is:
How is Don Manwel Mallia as Police Minister fit to protect us from these criminals now that we have strong indications that his main interest is going to be that of protecting himself?
This should also bring back questions about the source of the Eur 500,000 which Don Manwel Mallia had stashed under the mattress at home. Don Manwel had tried to cover up the source by telling us that he had sold some property – which turned out to be another whopper. Those Eur 500,000 must be seen in a new light.
Malta: a Protectorate in the Mediterranean.
Well done and thank you. Anyone with half a brain knows this is more than its being made out to be. I assumed the driver is a coke head and completely lost his rag – however, Smith’s silence is highly unusual given the BS story the media/police are trying to make us swallow.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-30/local-news/PN-undergoing-hymen-restoration-surgery-to-become-a-virgin-again-Evarist-Bartolo-6736126620#.VHsh4ufiga4.facebook Please tell me you’ve seen this
Police involved in a drug deal? Buying or selling?
If that is indeed the case all my bets are on selling.
If it indeed turns out that drugs are involved in this incident then Mallia’s responsibility is much, much graver than originally deemed.
It will mean that Mallia was sitting in a car where drugs were being transported or distributed. His only redeeming factor is that he is most likely to have known nothing about this considering his daughter was in the same car and was looked after by his driver and his driver’s mother.
This does not exonerate Manwel Mallia from accountability though.
Mallia will have to resign just as his client’s father Maurice Calleja and former minister Lawrence Gatt had to resign although none had any direct responsibility for their respective sons’ misdeeds.
Lawrence Gatt’s Mosta constituency office was the site of meetings between his son Etienne and other suspected drug traffickers while Brigadier Maurice Calleja was made to resign his army chief post following his son’s drug conviction.
The only difference now is that power is not in the hands of a serious PN government.
Muscat has really only two options. Either cut Mallia loose or risk Mallia dragging the MLP down with him.
He has another option – dissolve the government and call for an early general election . One can dream .
The whole thing has a whiff of Masuneria too.
My own gut instinct that things were not quite as they seemed kicked in when I read your post of November 24:
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/exclusive-patrick-sheehan-was-with-his-brother-when-he-shotmanuel-mallias-young-daughter-was-with-giovanna-sheehan-in-gzira/
You wrote: “When they heard the crash, both brothers rushed outside, jumped into the government car and went after the other man. They stopped him in Triq Wied Il-Kappara and Manuel Mallia’s driver got out with a gun while his brother stayed in the car.”
I found it very strange that Mallia’s driver was arguing with the other man while his brother stayed in the car. This defies logic. You’d expect the brother to get out of the car and support his brother in a heated argument with a stranger, wouldn’t you.
Conclusion: Mallia’s driver knew the other man.
If I’m not mistaken, Inspector Gabriel Micallef is the head of the police drug squad, which would make it even worse for him to be first on the scene.
I was never under any false illusion that things would be bad, very bad, under Labour. But this is just the pits. When you think they have reached rock bottom they just prove you wrong. What a bunch of lying,thieving bastards.
It was subtle when I pointed out but stressed the ending:
mf says: NOVEMBER 26, 2014 AT 6:35 PM
Post idejali fejn tixwi bicca laham u tghid zewg kelmiet fuq COKE.
(http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/the-cobweb-dolcieanne-micallef-paul-sheehan-gabriel-micallef-id-devil-and-manuel-mallia/)
but it now seems to be falling all into place.
Mallia will never resign. Now, he will fight to the very end to stay on using this power to hide his involvement in this drug deal that went bad.
Nothing to be surprised about, here.
Rumours about our “protectors” the police being at it big time are not to be ignored.