There are plenty of lawyers on the Opposition benches but are they speaking loud and clear enough?

Precisely – it should have been put on the low loader just like Smith’s car and taken to a (supposedly) secure location for detailed forensic investigation. And in both cases this should have been preceded by a proper on site forensic documentation of evidence, photographic and otherwise.

It seems to me that the only reliable evidence collected was by journalists and not the police.

The magisterial inquiry into whether the minister interfered is something that perhaps should be done as well, but it makes no sense unless Sheehan is already in court facing charges of attempted murder and the numerous other charges he is meant to face, such as endangering life and limb by shooting in a residential street and by dangerous driving.

More important and urgent than that inquiry there should have been an urgent police investigation into the crime itself. If anything, without that the whole inquiry about the minister’s involvement will have nothing to rest on.

One interesting thing is that there seems to have been no investigation of the crime scene; at least I haven’t seen anything in the media.

It has been made to appear that the crime scene was the tunnel rather than where Smith was (first?) shot at. The Leader of the Opposition has drawn attention to this fact by holding a press conference yesterday afternoon at the very site of the actual shooting, in Triq Wied Il-Kappara.

There has been no mention of the spent cartridges – how many there were and where they were. That is one of the cardinal things that is sought in any firearm crime.

At least two of them should have been found at Gzira where at least two shots were fired.

Where was the third shot fired?

Was it by any chance shot from the moving car, further endangering the public? Were more than three shots fired?

We only know of two that were heard at Gzira and that three were lodged in the car but are we sure that every shot fired hit the car?

What if others were shot, where are they?

Why was the minister’s car not searched and examined, especially for spent cartridges and gunshot residue?

[Daphne – Don’t you think that’s exactly why they magicked the minister’s car away, to remove the spent cartridges and gunshot residue?]

Now we’ve got a lot of people with half the alphabet behind their names but do we have real professionals?

And especially in this case – unless Baxxter is a lawyer – do we have lawyers who are real men and women ready to stand up to this regime and speak up and counteract to defend our liberty and our rights?

If you lead many will follow (hopefully).

A few weeks back a man was protesting with a wooden make-believe gun and was arrested.

Now a man fires live ammunition at another person and the victim is arrested.

Malta is becoming a scary place to live. Law and order and justice have all been swept under the carpet.

The truth is way back in the priority list.

I am not sure that the shooting was the worst thing that happened, as the follow up is worse, and is an indication of what will happen in the future.

The PM and the Police are there to serve the Maltese people and not the selected close few.

Does he have a replacement for Manuel Mallia? Mallia was crap from the start.

Maybe Muscat got the hint he might need to take over Mallia’s portfolio? He must be petrified.

This mess is all a karma comeback for Muscat, but what do you expect?

This issue is indeed no question of parlamentiary politics except for the fact that it reflects rather clearly that Dr. Muscat has undergone political orchiectomy.

The issue is in its “purity” nothing less than a criminal event, which does not call for any political investigation, be it through the office of a magistrate, be it through three judges.

The police officer in question must be dismissed from his post(s) and prosecuted in alignment with the legal codex of Malta.

The person, i.e. the Minister, who hand-picked the police officer, must assume political responsibility and resign from his high office.

Secondly, now we will see if Xarabank will dedicate a programme to this issue. Recently because George Pullicino was attacked in Parliament for an alleged wrong-doing he was called on Xarabank to justify himself and be the sacrificial lamb.