You couldn’t make it up if you tried
Malta Right Now reports that Stephen Smith, while in custody, has asked for Manuel Mallia as his defence counsel, only to be told that Mallia is now the minister at the centre of this fracas.
Malta Right Now reports in the same story that Manuel Mallia has asked the Police Commissioner with urgency for a list of all incidents in which policemen opened fire over the last 15 years.
You can already see where he is going with this one. Several people predicted it in comments on this website last night.
And he has already put the Police Commissioner in a compromised position: using time to research the defence for the Police Minister’s driver when he should be interrogating him with a view to prosecution.
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http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/11/20/esklussiva-il-ministru-mallia-bordni-diretta-lill-agent-kummissarju/
Very appropriate. They couldn’t have met on a better date.
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/11/20/ritratt-ufficjal-gholi-tac-chogm-fpajjizna/
Ahhh no wonder there was no traffic this morning along my usual route,which has turned a 5 minute journey into a nerve wrecking 45 minute bumper to bumper ride! This govt is the biggest con artist in history…perception hux they told us!
Why didn’t he ask for a list of all incidents when policemen opened fire since 1971?
It had to be since November 1989, ciccio. Remember, 15 years ago the Berlin Wall came down and that’s when the European postmodern dystopia began – three full years after our Tal-Barrani Civil War, November 1986.
This is history in the making. We’re going to count the bullets – and perhaps bite them too.
Which list would you be on, Kevin?
Fortunately, not the hit list, ciccio. Not yet, anyway.
25 years ago and not 15. Please learn how to subtract.
The Minister should be asking for a list of all incidents where the police opened fire because a car’s door mirror was scraped in a traffic accident.
If he asked for information on ministers’ drivers who fired a shotgun more than 15 years ago, he would come across il-Botom u il-Guy. Hasbu qieghed il-qorti jitmejjel bil-gurati?
It’s just a continuation of his old job, defending criminals.
The question is: are the criminals he defends still paying him for it?
Well, I suppose one can say that he is paid by the ones in government…
And he is paid by all those criminal who voted to put him there as their Minister.
There must have been some during Sant’s term in office or else he would have asked for 25 years worth.
It must be good to be an alleged criminal when the acting police commissioner is tasked with researching your defence. One wonders how Mr. Smith got the idea of asking for Mallia. Pity he did not ask for Franco Debono, now THAT would have been interesting.
If the charge for Mr. Smith is hit and run, would he have had to be kept under arrest. Are other charges being drummed up?
When that other minister hit a parked car AND a man, was he asked to take a breathalyzer test?
I would call that a case of two weights and two measures
There is no system of precedence in Malta. That explains the wildly differing judgements.
Wanna bet Franco thinks he could be a better minister? Muscat’s mobile on silent.
I don’t know about others, but as far as I am concerned I am really, really glad I am living in Malta again under PL. I just got bored stiff under those boring PN.
What, with an increase year after year in employment, year after year of tranquillity, year after year increases in the economy, and this in the deepest economic slow down since the twenties and I can go on and bore you with how a PN governs. I mean how more boring can it get?
So yes it’s Muscat and his PL for me, one day just isn’t like the one before…all adrenalin. Energija pozitiva, someone?
And, of course, OPTIMISM – of the positive kind, mind you.
Fenominali.
And now with the decriminalisation of possession of drugs for personal use, we will all be happy and high and living in positivity and seeing auras.
I have a feeling that the driver was not supposed to be in that particular place when the car was hit and that is why he was mad and lost it.
That is obvious to me also.
“My boss is in Floriana for a couple of hours, I’ll nip to me mammy’s for a bit of hobza. No-one will ever know.”
Time to check the GPS tracker on all government vehicles.
“I’ll nip to me mammy” on tax-payer’s money to pay for the petrol, of course.
No one will ever know. Walls have eyes and ears, don’t they! No one knows, I’m dead sure.
Was he doing a Gouder?
Mallia has surpassed Joey in predictability. He’s searching for a “oh it happened under the PN too” position. Why is he bothering – he is obviously not so comfortable with the lies he’s used so far.
The minister’s driver was ”…convicted of uttering vulgar language and hindering Superintendent Ray Zammit from carrying out his duties during a disturbance…” TOM
BUT ‘… Mallia said that he knows him as a quiet man and he had been awarded by the government for…’ MI
Jimmy Savile was awarded the OBE and the KGSC for goodness sake, how do awards impinge on or lessen culpability in criminal behaviour?
The real measure of a man is not how he acts with others who have power over him (you). It is how the man acts towards people who he has a real or perceived power over.
TOM http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141120/local/update-8-shooting-incident-ministerial-driver-suspended-from-all-duties.544812
MI
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-20/local-news/Minister-Mallia-police-chief-Zammit-and-government-head-of-communications-Farrugia-in-meeting-6736126033
Did someone leak Minister Mallia’s request to the Police Commissioner?
I predict a witch hunt.
And another bomb – perhaps .
My gosh, my gosh, it was already hush hush on today’s Magic Malta 5 o’clock news. Shhhhh the less it’s mentioned the quicker we forget.
Back to the eighties. People then were being killed but the government-controlled media always pretended that everything was hunky dory.
Il-Mulej mieghek, Manuel ( u int taf xi jfisser).
” Manuel Mallia has asked the Police Commissioner with urgency for a list of all incidents in which policemen opened fire over the last 15 years”.
A supplementary question should be, ‘How many times did the police fire at unarmed individuals, not in self defence, or because a bad driver scraped a minister’s car, in the last 15 years’? Reply with urgency, please.
“Malta Right Now reports in the same story that Manuel Mallia has asked the Police Commissioner with urgency for a list of all incidents in which policemen opened fire over the last 15 years.”
The predictable stupid sequel in Joe Muscat’s fulfillment of his other broken electoral promise of “change” will be:
Someone else did it in Nationalist days therefore today’s Labour Party Minister i/c police claims equal right to have his driver shoot up anyone touching the minister’s car”.
So, there.
” Manuel Mallia has asked the Police Commissioner with urgency for a list of all incidents in which policemen opened fire over the last 15 years.”
Is he for real ?
What about the FACT that his driver was NOT a police officer on duty when he fired those shots ?
Since when do you fire warning shots towards a car or person ?
He should resign. There is too much conflict of interest and serious lies have been told.
Mallia should check for ministerial DRIVERS who fired shots at citizens for the past fifty years.
Someone has to have the guts to put this Mallia down for good and the sooner the better. Otherwise hell awaits us all.
[Daphne – Careful, because with his level of paranoia he’ll think yours is a request for his assassination.]