More likely tactics by N. Korea, China and the KGB.

http://www.ipt-forensics.com/library/coerced.htm

Ara Manuel issa qieghed igib il-muturi tal-pulizija dirett minn tar-Regina Auto Dealer.

Dawn il-muturi huma second hand u issa jippretendi li jaghtu kocc xhur ohra xoghol.

Tghid xtara biss is-sireni brand new biex juri lil kulhadd ara ghaddej il-Farawni u biex ma jinharqux malajr?

Qammiel mhux mal-mara biss imma minn mal-pulizija wkoll.

It-tapp tal-luminata should find himself one of those mercenary Russian beauties that are for sale online.

So the moral is never go to the depot of your own free will.

[Daphne – EXACTLY. That’s why I refused to go when two senior officers turned up at my gate with an arrest warrant on the eve of the general election, and why I called in the television cameras and the press. It took more than an hour of stand-off, but they finely compromised on the Mosta police station (with all the press waiting outside). People think I called in the press for publicity. I didn’t. I called them in for my own security.]

It points a very big finger indeed to Scerri and his boss.

Their lunga manus has its finger prints all over.

There is no other plausible explanation.

48 hours is the maximum. It does not mean that a person can, no matter what, be kept for that amount of time, much less that he or she should be so kept.

Detention must always be justified by relevant and sufficient reasons both in respect of the initial arrest and in respect of its duration.

The need to interrogate the detained person several times in connection with complex factual issues or the need to carry out collateral investigations of other facts or the interrogation of other people may justify a person’s detention for more than a few hours.

But detaining a person for 33 hours (which would necessarily include an overnight stay) for that person to be interrogated only once appears to be a flagrant breach of the law and of that person’s fundamental right to liberty.

The result of any such interrogation should lack credence.