Another eyewitness
I have just received this email.
I live in Sliema Road, opposite Guze Miceli Street. On the night of the incident I was at home waiting for my husband to return from work.
I remember looking out from the balcony window to check if the traffic flow had slowed down. At one point I noticed a car coming out through Guze Miceli Street at high speed, going up Sliema Road and heading towards the roundabout. I immediately noticed the number plate – GM14 – and wondered what a minister’s car was doing near the ‘pixxina’ at that hour.
Most cars coming up from this road are usually coming from that direction. I remember looking at my watch – it was 20.47.
A few minutes later I heard police cars approaching from Rue D’Argens. As soon as they arrived, one kept going up Sliema Road towards the tunnels and the other stopped, went down (wrong way) Guze Miceli Street, turned right to the ‘pixxina’, stopped a few seconds near the carpark, then made a U-turn back to Sliema Road and then straight up it towards the roundabout.
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The two shots that hit the car took place in the corner Edgar Bernard Street with Triq Wied Il-Kappara and there are witnesses to this.
Two shots were heard but it is possible that more shots were fired during the chase but they didn’t hit the car.
It is possible that the cartridges have been replaced in the gun magazine except two for obvious reasons.
The prompt criminal tampering with the evidence before the investigating magistrate arrived on the scene will make the answer to legitimate questions well nigh impossible. That was the whole purpose of the cover-up as it was in days long past of a precious MLP government.
Daphne, this eyewitness account proves a point I tried to make in a comment on a previous post, and contains a very important detail which appears to have been overlooked so far.
Triq Guze Miceli runs parallel to Triq Edgar Bernard, and leads directly from the car park of the ‘pixxina’ to Sliema Road.
Sheehan had said in one of the recorder phone calls that he was near the ‘pixxina’ car park.
“Iva, jarawni” he told the officer who took the 112 call when he asked if he was in the car park.
The map you uploaded some days ago does not go anywhere near the national pool, car park, or Triq Guze Miceli. And the picture of Silvio Scerri’s car that you had shown some time ago appears to have been taken in Triq Maria Teresa Spinelli, which runs from Triq Edgar Bernard, across the front of St Monica School and to the ‘pixxina’ car park.
[Daphne – Please remember that there are eyewitnesses to two shots fired at the end of Triq Wied Il-Kappara where it meets Edgar Bernard Street. They were definitely there at the time because they were seen by a woman walking her dog and another woman who lives there. This does not preclude the possibility that they were actually at the car park at some point, but I think it more likely that Sheehan said ‘near the pool car park’ because that would be the nearest landmark in his mind. He wouldn’t have known the name of the street.]
There are witnesses that heard the two shots in Edgar Bernard Street but they kept mum.
Then this eyewitness might have seen the GM14 car as it gave chase to Stephen Smith’s Vauxhall.
Perhaps immediately after the shots were fired they drove a short way down Edgar Bernard Street, then left onto M.T.Spinelli Street and right down / up Guze Miceli Street onto Sliema Road. That would explain this eyewitness account.
‘Your’ map may therefore be slightly inaccurate, although the route between the shooting and the tunnel might not be all that significant, I suppose.
Why did he remove the GM14 number plates?
Mark Anthony Falzon in the Sunday Times today.
“An attempt to cover up a cover-up with a bigger cover-up is how I would describe what the Prime Minister did in Parliament on Wednesday.”
Gvern tal-cover-ups.
We’re back to the 80s, jekk mhux aghar.
In the 80s I was a little girl and one of our neighbours was a minister’s driver.
I still remember his speeding up and all the show-off and abuse on the road with the ministerial car.