With their impeccable aim, these guys should participate in the Olympics.

One fires a warning shot in the air and hits a moving car three times and the other fires a warning shot and the ricocheting bullet nails his victim.

Not bad. Two gold medals.

Amazing how some people don’t realise they simply are not credible.

Funny, Kris, that in over 70 years I never needed the services of police for protection. It was not just a coincidence but the simple fact that I avoided places where ‘accidents’ are prone to happen.

[Daphne – You have got to be joking. I am not under threat because I am the victim of my own success. I am under threat because many people would rather I didn’t write the things they would prefer not to be said. Frankie Grima is under threat because he mixes with criminals and operates in an environment riddled with criminality. That’s probably also the reason his mate Manuel Mallia thinks he needs to be escorted at all times by a thug carrying a pistol. A proper comparison would be to a police officer who is under threat by those criminals because he is investigating what they do. Frankie Grima is not fighting or exposing anything. The man is bad news. Still dealing in Argentine beef, is he? Don’t stick up for him, because it isn’t worth it. Leave that to Manuel Mallia’s ex girlfriend. At least she gets paid for it. You don’t.]

[Daphne – You know, Kris, most of us live our lives without getting involved with the sort of people who blow us up, or who we have to blow up because the police won’t do anything. Frankie Grima is not a journalist being targeted by people who want to silence him. He is one of them. And that’s exactly why he has those problems. Plenty of people own bars without ending up on trial for murder after killing somebody with a stolen Uzi.]

[Daphne – Right, so the next time I’m harassed by a bunch of Laburisti as happened to me in the street at Rabat last year, I should take the law into my own hands, bring out an Uzi and gun down Natius Farrugia and Maria Vassallo, because they had it coming to them, instead of going to the police station and filing a report. I don’t know what world you people inhabit, but it’s alien to the rest of us. Total sleaze. ‘He was killed by a ricocheting bullet from an Uzi stolen from the law courts that Frankie Grima just so happened to keep under his bar counter. He didn’t mean to kill him; the bullet did it.’ I don’t suppose you see the legal and moral lacunae in your argument, so I won’t bother. You people disgust me.]

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100522/local/night-club-owner-guilty-of-resisting-police.308427

Grima killed a man outside his Bamboo Bar in Paceville some years ago, by shooting him in cold blood then claiming self-defence. Those were the days when juries were not especially sophisticated and he got off. He killed him with a machine-gun which he kept behind the bar.

These are the sorts of people in the Police Minister’s circle of friends and contacts.