Is this the senior policeman who is suspected of telling the media about human trafficking at Leisure Clothing?
On Sunday, Saviour Balzan’s newspaper, Illum, reported with tones of satisfaction and approval that police bosses are “hunting” (kacca ghal) for the police officer who “leaked” information about Leisure Clothing to the media, and that they know who the senior officer is but don’t have enough proof to “nail him” (biex isammruh).
This past night at 4.30am a huge bomb went off outside the Zurrieq home of a police inspector who used to work in the Criminal Investigation Department but now has a completely innocuous desk job sourcing EU funding for the police force.
The two reports immediately slotted together in my mind. If the police are hunting for the officer who they think spoke to the media, which resulted in big stories breaking out in all the media except that controlled by the Labour Party, the government and Times of Malta, with all leading business organisations and one workers’ union issuing harsh statements condemning practices at Leisure Clothing, and they can’t “nail him”, then the people whose bidding they are doing will nail him themselves.
Am I wrong in this assumption? Believe me when I say that I hope I am. Whatever is going on at Leisure Clothing is clearly not just about bringing in indentured labourers to make clothes at the factory itself, though that would be foul enough. There is something way bigger there, with In-Nazzjon now reporting sources who used to work at the factory describing how containers would arrive, remain sealed on the premises, then certain customs officials would arrive, switch round the papers without opening the containers, and those containers would be off again to another destination.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-04/local-news/Bomb-goes-off-at-police-inspector-s-residence-in-Zurrieq-nobody-injured-6736124903
http://www.illum.com.mt/ahbarijiet/politika/38955/kaa_gal_uffijal_goli_filkorp_talpulizija#.VFd7jmchNCx
Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia, who is abroad, was immediately notified and phoned the inspector.
In a tweet he condemned the blast and expressed solidarity. “I condemn this act of violence against Inspector Geoffrey Azzopardi, violence against public officers in not acceptable and must be heavily punished,” he said.
He can tweet as much as he likes but I suspect that this case will remain on his desk like the other cases.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141008/local/Minister-is-still-studying-findings-of-two-inquiries.538843
My thoughts precisely.
Back to the 70s.
Ix-xitan jagħtik id-disgħa u disgħin u l-aħħar wieħed iżommu għalih.
The devil is in the detail.
Security cameras:
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/11/04/l-ispluzjoni-fiz-zurrieq-cameras-tas-sigurta-jistghu-jkunu-fundamentali-ghall-investigazzjoni/
My bet is that images obtained from the security camera will prove to be of poor quality and therefore unusable for identification purposes.
Pictures shown elsewhere show scores of people, not least connected with the investigation of the case, contaminating the crime scene where evidence could still exist.
While this case has an immediate shock effect, as time goes by and the file collects dust on Mallia’s and/.or his cousin’s desk, the focus becomes blurry and the impact softens.
Why did Malta Today remove the news about the Żurrieq bomb?
Now why would Saviour do that?
Poor man and his family. The feeling of uncertainty, danger, backstabbing, and fear has come back with a vengeance.
The 25-year hiatus in this amoral behaviour was not enough for the Maltese to forget all this maverick behaviour.
How very sad. Good luck Malta. We are in for a rough ride. Police state is back.
Actually it was enough – in fact Labour was voted back in government
I hope you are, Daphne. Then again, reading the comments which timesofmalta.com bizarrely publishes, not everyone feels this was an act of violence.
[Daphne – So what was it then, if not an act of violence – an accident?]
No of course not, they’ll say the device was planted by the PN to destabilise the government.
Muscat’s lost control, if he ever had any.
From Times of Malta’s comments board;
‘….Joseph Grech-Attard
Hope we do not go back to the 80’s when such incidents used to happen and which then miraculously disappeared after the change of government in 1987!…’
There you go. The regime has its sponsors, and they’re everywhere.
[Daphne – Joseph Grech-Attard is a lost cause, a rabid and irrational Mintoffian from Mellieha, of the Old Red school of thought, from a large and spreading family of virulent Mintoffians. Believe me when I say that I know exactly what I am talking about here. Like Rita and Simon Spiteri, he has taken to living in Tunis, but don’t for a moment imagine that it’s Rita Spiteri he’s gone for.]
Jozef, I think your reading of Joseph Muscat is wrong. He has not lost control. He is the one indirectly (let’s be generous) encouraging such Mafia-style activity.
The classic comment is “there’s always two sides to a coin”.
[Daphne – Unbelievable. I had decided that I was culturally alien to Malta but the massive readership of this website reassures me that there are lots of people out there who are normal by normal civilised standards and it’s just that we are seriously outnumbered by the sort of people who would be considered freakish anywhere else but who are here the industry standard. So it’s all right to try to blow up a police officer if you think he wronged you? No wonder this society of freaks considers psychiatric cases like Jeffrey and Franco as perfectly normal and justified u li ghandhom ragun, instead of seeing them for what they are: dangerous nutjobs who badly need psychiatric care but who have determinedly refused it.]
Perhaps it is a case of empty vessels make most sound.
The golden years are back with a bang (literally).
The police minister, as fate would have it, was abroad on government business, he says, when the bomb went off outside an officer’s door in Zurrieq. So surely no one can blame HIM for it.
He is irresponsible…. sorry, I mean “not responsible”.
Remember it-Tander saying he never experienced a Labour government?
Here it is Alex, enjoy. You are now obliged to abandon any remnant of human decency and endorse the violence.
I’m sure Tander is loving every minute of it (by the way, did he get an iced bun? Haven’t heard about him recently.)
They will call this period yet another set of golden years, when things are so rosy for them, all lining their pockets, while the rest of us wonder what’s going to become of this island.
Shame.
Of course he has the ice bun too, look:
https://www.facebook.com/cutajaralex?fref=ts
[Daphne – That’s another Alex. Jozef means Alex ‘Tander’ Saliba, his friend.]
It seems that the Minister is always abroad when something big happens that concerns his portfolio.
Bdejna bil-bombi l-ahwa.
Yes, those were my thoughts on hearing the news this morning – and my conclusion was the same as Daphne’s.
Iva, Jozef, erġajna bdejna bil-bombi. Niftakarhom sew jien is-sebgħinijiet u t-tmeninijiet. Brrrrrr.
People on their early morning jog use that service road on their way down to the Blue Grotto belvedere.
The Whisleblower Act transitions into The Blowing Whistles Act instead. Same wolves, same sheep skins, same tactics.
Are we gonna be regaled by a new Pietru Pawl?
There are several means at their disposition. The ones seen on the surface are the tip of the iceberg as it is today.
Our Tabatha is correct. They’ve developed more sophisticated methods since then.
We’re talking phone tapping and eavesdropping. We’re talking account hacking. We’re talking targeted assassination made to look like an accident.
The Malta Independent reports: “Over the past days, the police have investigated reports of poor working conditions for Asian workers employed at Leisure Clothing, which were followed by declarations by Home Affairs Minister Manwel Mallia that any leaks from the police force will be thoroughly dealt with.”
Thorough enough? Well they could certainly come a second time. Right, Gejtu?
This would be a case of control by any means, ministerial edict, brute force if needs be. Now this is what I would call a totalitarian outlook. This is what we are up against.
This is what the 1987 commitment to ‘national reconciliation’ has brought about.
Animals should be treated as such.
This is political terrorism.
This is worrying indeed. Are we back to the ‘golden’ days of Labour when even the police feared the police?
The report in ‘Illum’ is disgusting. The intention of the newspaper’s ‘sorsi fil-pulizija’ was clearly that of intimidating the alleged ‘whistleblower’. That a newspaper can allow itself to be used for that purpose beggars belief.
Saviour’s empire looks out to the horizon.
Here we go again…
This is only the beginning ; mark my words .
Lil wiehed xi hadd jixtieq isammru, u l-ispettur xi hadd jixtieq jisplodih.
Will the police investigate the leak from within their ranks the information passed on to Illum newspaper? Am I asking too much?
Nisperaw issa li ma jsirx xi frame up kif kienu jsirru fis-70s u l-80s.