Look at the commotion – you’d think the British man had shot at Manuel Mallia’s driver
Manuel Mallia’s driver shoots at somebody, and the police behave as though the man who was shot at is the criminal rather than the driver who shot at him. Has any newspaper asked whether the police have arrested the Police Minister’s driver for discharging bullets in a residential street and shooting at an unarmed citizen? That unarmed citizen is not safe at Police HQ.
This country is paying the price for Joseph Muscat’s irresponsible insanity in making a criminal defence lawyer with clients who are Malta’s most nefarious criminals, and far too many career-driven vested interests in building clientelism in the police force, his Police Minister.
Manuel Mallia is unfit. Get rid of him before things get much worse.
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Times of Malta has removed the story. Sickening.
Panic
It’s become “Il-Gazzetta tal-Gvern”.
They haven’t – http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141119/local/updated-ministers-driver-fires-warning-shots-at-hit-and-run-driver.544812
Warning shots would have hit a bird or a plane (or Marc Sant flying overhead), not the car.
This is now escalating to the point of no return. We need to stand up and be counted. My question is how? As gone are the days of public rallies so what do we need to do?
No, it hasn’t. It has replaced it with a version more pleasing to the government.
They cannot get rid of him. If he goes, everybody goes down with him.
Everyone going down with him is a great idea.
Someone’s pet hamster can do a better job of governing Malta than the present incompetent bunch, and the hamster will be more honest too.
Yes, I believe so too. That is why it is so worrying.
Exactly, he’s got as much on them as they on him.
For somebody to unload two shots with unarmed people in a residential area is extremely irresponsible. It means the guy has no real weapons training, no idea about engagement rules and absolutely no idea about law vis-a-vis gun carrying. And he shouldn’t be a security driver in the first place.
[Daphne – It is not ‘irresponsible’, Wilson. It is a criminal act, expressly forbidden by the law.]
Well, the driver being a policeman and under the assumption of grave danger it might not be so much of a criminal act.
On the other hand, from the information provided in the stories, it is a glass bottle not a broken one, changing the sphere of the situation to possible excessive use of force. All lies in whether the policeman identified himself and further acts by the assumed criminal took place.
[Daphne – Don’t be ridiculous. For a start he was cast in the role of driver, not policeman. And the other man was unarmed and not committing a criminal act. Police officers do not routinely carry guns in Malta anyway, for the simple reason that they are not permitted to use them in this way.]
This was a straightforward traffic accident and it should have been dealt with in the normal manner.
This year, the Justice Minister crashed into a car, seriously injuring the driver. Last year, the Finance Minister’s car hit a young woman who was crossing the road.
Should firearms be used whenever a minister’s car is involved in an accident? We’re always verging on the surreal in Malta.
You might be very right, I am being ridiculous. But I am still intrigued as to how a ‘driver’ was armed.
Wilson, you cannot base your argument on hypothesis.
The accident was not hypothetical – it happened in reality.
The policeman was never in danger, let alone ‘grave danger’, so discharging his firearm in a populated area aiming at an unarmed individual, is not just a foolish mistake, it is a criminal offence.
Some reports said that he was inside sitting on mummy’s sofa drinking beer. How dangerous was that?
But even setting aside the criminal aspect, how fair was the match-up – gun against a beer bottle? Hardly.
I suspect that certain angles by certain motivated individuals on the government side are being fed to the media just to complicate the issue and sow doubt in people’s minds.
The damning part of the story is that the apparent victim was arrested and detained for the maximum period allowed by law while the alleged perpetrator of the unlawful act was not even detained for a nominal hour or two, just to make it seem that a real police investigation was taking place. Such is the arrogance of Mallia, Muscat et al.
‘Ahna fil-gvern, naghmlu li rridu’.
Back to the eighties with a Big Bang.
A very short, very fat bang actually. The only big things about that man are his ego and his bank accounts.
What is the British guy’s name?
Usain Bolt
This is happening after only a year and a half. It is more than scary.
I guess the timing, and scenario, is grotesquely on track if the power station isn’t going to be happening plus other diplomatic stuff.
Malta’s becoming somewhat of a melange between the Philippines, China and Calabria.
I bet you they’ve given him a few drinks to calm him down.
Then he’ll go and bang his head.
Yes, and ‘spit blood’ at a policeman.
I guess that even the fact that the driver of a Minister’s car gave chase amounts to dangerous driving and to endangering the life of other motorists.
“The Minister’s driver was armed, because we take good care of the people who protect us, OK?” – DOI Press release.
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/manuel-mallia-has-a-rare-moment-of-honesty-on-twitter/
Thank God Owen Bonnici didn’t crash into one of his colleagues’ official cars. He would have got a bullet straight to the head for injuring the driver.
I watched the video in Times of Malta’s report more than once.
I cannot see how that Opel Insignia has been involved in a hit and run accident.
There are no signs of damage on that car.
Both side mirrors are intact. There are no signs of dents or other damage on any of the body panels on both sides of the car, which is in immaculate condition.
The government’s spokesman is lying.
That video should be kept and used as court evidence.
Watch video here, before it disappears:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141119/local/updated-ministers-driver-fires-warning-shots-at-hit-and-run-driver.544812
On the other hand, the bullet hole in the rear left lamp is very visible.
‘ baqa’ diehel b’sahha fuq il-karozza’ Incredible.
http://www.tvm.com.mt/news/ingliz-arrestat-wara-hit-and-run-fuq-karozza-ta-ministru/
Look at those pictures of the Scottish man’s car. No signs of damage there.
So nonchalant it was for him to draw his gun and randomly fire a couple of shots and over something so trivial.
Subconsciously he already knew that he’d get off scot-free because his party are now in government.
I can honestly say that something such as this frightens me because it is so reminiscent of Old Labour.
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/11/19/ix-xufier-tal-ministru-manwel-mallia-jispara-tiri-ta-twissija/
“Keystone Cops on alert after homicide attempt on Minister’s driver – further attacks not ruled out”.
[Daphne – That’s right. Now I’m going to have to avoid that bit of Strait Street in case Paul Sheehan sees me reach into my handbag and shoots me.]
Don’t worry, it was all a Scottish Rite Freemasonic play.
533 =11 = 2
November =11 = 2
Tunnels
Insignia
It is all there for those with eyes that see.
Ara fejnhom il-faxxisti. Issa jrid jitkellem Montebello.
I can say that the Force is back to the seventies. This is the typical daily scenario we police officers had to cope with back then.
When a certificate was given because of the chase at the stork incident we wondered why this particular act was highlighted in this way, now we know:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140918/local/policemen-who-caught-stork-shooter-awarded-certificate-of-merit.536262
Mallia is D A N G E R O U S.
He is also unfit, as Daphne said, but in more ways than one.
As is his armed driver. Since when do cabinet ministers have armed drivers?
The more pertinent matter is that he has extremely dangerous clients.
Manuel Mallia must be under some threat to be acting as he is. Or he knows too much about some people for them to stop this degeneration.
Manuel Mallia worked for several of the cocaine traffickers who over the past two/three years have been engaged in eliminating each other.
Enough said.
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/11/20/jinqabad-jigeb/
Exclusive footage from last night, courtesy of a friend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBURp00dftA
Anke fil-kriminalita huma amateurs.
So the Minister needs an armed driver at night but in the morning he walks all along Republic Street with no one at his side like he did on Tuesday morning.
If he needs an armed person driving him around, he would be needing another while roaming the city centre, right?
Shocking. God knows what they have done to the British man who has been arrested when he’s the victim.