Manuel Mallia can’t kick the habit of consorting with criminals
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November 20, 2014 at 11:16am
How absolutely depressing: after a week of reports about how his chief of staff was/is under investigation for conspiracy to murder the man for whom the mother of his children left him, this morning we discover that his driver has a criminal conviction, confirmed on appeal, for disobeying the orders of the officer who is now Police Commissioner.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-20/local-news/Minister-s-driver-had-been-found-guilty-of-disobeying-police-orders-issued-by-now-police-chief-Ray-Zammit-6736126031
I’d rather put is as follows: why does the Minister feel the need to keep certain shady people by his side?
Because he is at home with them, simple.
Too simple. Protection? Fear? “I owe you” principle?
How else would he have all that cash to stash?
If he has a criminal conviction, why is he still a policeman?
The long answer is “it’s Labour.”
The driver has been suspended from his duties as Manuel Mallia’s driver. No word on whether he has been suspended from the police force. Now they can find him a job at Dar Malta, guarding Cyrus and Randolph.
I still cannot understand how the minister’s driver could have heard the collision (not seen it) ran out and seen which car had hit the minister’s car AND say that it was a hit and run.
If the British man had driven off the minister’s driver would only have been able to see the back of a number of cars.
As we saw in the photo no damage is evident on the British man’s vehicle, except for the bullet hole, which came later.
Is Mallia standing by his cowboy driver and is Joseph Muscat standing by Mallia?
That seems to be the factor by which actions are judged these days. Shame on whom was it?
They are paving the way to make the driver shoulder responsibility and save the Minister.
But this information makes this a case of very poor ministerial judgement in that the Minister chose a convicted criminal as his driver, who was even carrying a gun, and the Minister must go.
Meanwhile, the driver should be anointed Soldier of Steel by the prime minister Joseph Muscat and awarded the Gieh ir-Repubblika for going all the way to defend the side mirror of the Minister’s car.
Which is why I think a DOI press release will soon inform us that the Minister’s married and sex life with Codruta is as good as ever and that he did not have sex with the driver carrying a gun.
“Chi va con lo zoppo impara a zoppicare”.
Until the contrary is proved he should not be in charge of the cops in the serious business of cops versus criminals.
What does it say about the Chief of Police’s internal authority if Minister Mallia, by retaining this “policeman” as his chauffeur, shows such approval before the rest of the Force?
This is ridiculous. A police officer not in uniform and off duty pulls out a gun and fires shots in a residential street.
This is insane!
This clearly shows that he obviously feels that he has the right to behave like because of the culture he is picking up from his superiors.
Many months ago I described the cabinet of Malta as the characters from the Godfather film. Manuel Mallia is Clemenza.
http://godfather.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Clemenza
If this was a civilised country like the UK, where I live, this guy would be under arrest immediately. Instead they have arrested his victim. A body like a Police Complaints Committee would be appointed to investigate the incident.
When will people wake up in Malta? Everyday that passes their country is destroying the professional image that the Nationalist governments worked extremely hard in building over the last two decades, and these bad clowns are destroying it overnight.
Good work by The Malta Independent.
Now it just needs to sort out that ‘hit-and-run’ business. And fast. Just when people had started flocking to it instead of Times of Malta, it botches up a story in such an awful manner.
Maybe Manuel Mallia is driving around with large amounts of cash on him, and needs protection by a man with a gun.
‘The minister refused to specify when asked, whether the constable had been actually suspended from his job as a policeman or just from escort duties.’
What did Mallia tweet about who helps and protects who?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141119/local/update-6-shooting-incident-ministerial-driver-suspended-from-escort-duties.544812
Have they found this glass bottle yet? Or are they still trying to get Stephen Smith’s fingerprints on it?
Mallia has actually given us his new rules: commit criminal acts as long as you throw in a couple of ‘heroic’ acts such as putting out a fire. Your crimes will then be overlooked.
That is why revenge porn and chasing married men to have a child with is OK then, who needs morals and ethics when one can have the Mallia credo?
One wonders if this is the same reasoning the government is using to scrutinise ‘talent’ for citizenship purchase applications.
Corruption here, trafficking there, meddling and conniving but contributing to charity, so that’s all right then.
Who else would be happy or willing to consort with him?
Criminals are tenacious, anyone wanting to stay on the straight and narrow knows that there is no keeping a criminal at arm’s length. Making money from criminals has a price, entering that world is a choice which not everyone is willing to make.