Manuel Mallia’s driver to be charged
The Malta Independent reports that Manuel Mallia’s driver is to be charged today.
There is a mistake in the story, however, which is unsurprising given the mass of confusing details which have emerged at different times and in different ways. The news portal reports:
Initially, the government told certain sections of the media that warning shots were fired in the air but it later transpired that the shots were in fact fired at the car. The Opposition hit out at the government, accusing it of a cover-up, after the Briton’s car was allegedly moved before the magistrate arrived on site. This was denied by the Commissioner of Police Ray Zammit.
he Police Commissioner did not deny that the car was moved before the magistrate arrived. He denied that he gave orders for the car to be moved before the magistrate arrived. The car WAS moved before the magistrate arrived.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-24/local-news/Suspended-police-constable-Paul-Sheehan-to-be-arraigned-today-6736126247
That’s not enough.
Mallia still needs to be sacked.
Let’s now not go into the time wasting scenario of a prolonged and lengthy court case, where evidence relating to substance abuse or residue has been “lost.”
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-24/local-news/Gzira-shooting-Latest-developments-confirm-Mallia-s-position-no-longer-tenable-6736126250
If he is not granted bail he will have withdrawal symptoms from non availability of Red Bull.
What happened? Why is he being arraigned? Did someone shoot at him?
Is this Manuel Mallia’s latest justification for staying on as minister? It’s the reason he should be leaving.
The driver is going to be sacrificed so that Manuel can survive as Police Minister.
No one needs a magistrate’s inquiry to understand that Mallia lied, brazenly. He has to go too.
Horses for courses.
Too late for breathalyser and drug tests, of course.
Not too late for the drug test. In hair it can be detected up to six weeks after usage.
What about the car chase on a public road thus endangering public safety, attempting to block another car, disturbing the peace, attacking another person, committing a crime he was duty bound to prevent and conduct not in line with that of a police officer, among others?
That’s police investigative efficiency and fairness for you in Lejber Malta.
They needed concrete grounds on which to arraign Sheehan so they first arrest Smith for 40 hours to get a clear and irrefutable picture of Sheehan’s involvement in this sordid shooting affair.
The only hitch is that after the massive public outcry, it might be argued that Justice might just be biased against a member of their own corps(e).
I think Mallia will do his best to keep his position but also to protect Sheehan, as the latter certainly knows way too much about his boss.
Drivers tend to gather a load of information about their boss whether willingly or not.
You will be proved right when we get to know what exactly he is going to be charged with. Min jaf kemm ilhom jistudjaw.
What will his iced bun be when he gets his suspended jail term?
Sometimes it takes just one moment when corruption is uncovered to suddenly validate all other theories of what is going on behind the scenes.
As we have seen in this incident, the Labour government is prepared to cover up something, glossing over details and twisting facts it thinks it can get away with.
Therefore, it is fair to assume that they do the same with other situations when the press isn’t able to film and uncover the extent of the lies told to the public.
Muscat’s and Mallia’s actions show how far they are willing to go, and their style of lying. Can’t we then apply this to other situations, like the power station?
Now let’s see what the possible outcome of this could be:
a. Police Commissioner declares there is not enough evidence (as in Dalli’s case);
b. Case is dismissed because of a technicality;
c. Sheehan is cleared bacause prosecution did not prove its case;
d. Fresh (false) evidence is given in favour of Sheehan;
e. Judge Wen Zhou Mintoff is appointed to hear the case;
f. Paul Sheehan goes AWOL and winds up in China;
g. Sheehan goes away and then produces certificates signed by an obscure doctor in Germany to say that he cannot return because of psycho-social issues.
“Ismghani Pawl, zbaljajt ras.. Issa tejk de foll umbaghad niehdu hsiebek, orrajt? Ara ma tghid xejn min kien mieghek fhimtni?”
Will Mallia be defending him?
Driver arraigned? Now? Too flippin’ little and too bloomin’ late.
Check out the theatrics:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141124/local/updated-constable-sheehan-hospitalised-after-flying-into-a-rage-during-magisterial-inquiry.545568
Has anyone ever thought that this shooting business might be a premeditated charade to deviate public attention from the problems of the new power station (what power station?), from the tax collecting exercise that was the budget, from Simon Busuttil’s reply to the budget speech and a number of other items?
Panem et circenses or circenses only seeing that the budget did not produce any panem?
[Daphne – Simon Busuttil shouldn’t be talking about the budget. There are far more important matters.]
I’m writing this after learning that Peter P Sheehan has been hospitalised. I thought, so that is why we heard nothing about the arraignment from the PBS stations.
Instead, Enemalta’s incursion into the electricity supply of illegal buildings in Armier, St Thomas Bay and I don’t remember where else, was the main item for a good part of today’s news bulletins.
Possibly or probably, they knew ‘in their subconscious’ that this arraignment would not take place today (and therefore not newsworthy) because it wasn’t supported by a DOI statement.
You see, the DOI issued a statement last Wednesday stating that a number of warning gun shots were expended by minister Mallia’s (hero) driver-cum-security guard who gave chase to a hit-and-run foreigner, after the latter was involved in a collision with the ministerial car.
On the strength of that statement PBS expounded the myth of the warning shots until the minister himself ‘corrected’ his ministry’s statement to admit that these shots effectively landed (sic) on the foreigner’s car.
This time, it seems PBS took a step back from reporting that P Sheehan was to be arraigned and charged, preferring perhaps to wait for that DOI statement again. Meanwhile, we learn that Sheehan, somehow is now in hospital.
There goes Malta ‘taghna lkoll’ under Lejber.
Something that’s been bugging me and no one else seems to have noticed – firing warning shots into the air in a populated area is just as bad, possibly worse depending how you look at it, than firing in someone’s direction. A bullet fired up into the air will come down with enough velocity to kill a person and it is only a matter of luck whether it hits someone or not.
Shooting the so called warning shots into the air in a densely populated place would still have been a serious crime.