Codruta Cristian answers phone and asks Mallia: “It’s a journalist. What should I do?”
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-12-09/local-news/Mallia-s-wife-answers-phone-tells-her-husband-TMI-journo-is-on-the-asking-questions-line-goes-dead-6736127018
Tiftakar ic-cajta ta’ Varist: Tik tok Tik tok? Illejla Manuel u Joseph qed jisimawh l-arlogg.
Qed jipprepara d-difiza tieghu.
He’s preparing his own defence.
With apologies to the Clash – Track of the night: Should I stay or should I go – http://youtu.be/GqH21LEmfbQ
The song is dedicated to Joseph Muscat, Manuel Mallia, Kurt Farrugia, Silvio Scerri…may you all sleep well tonight.
Smile when you’re next photographed by the press because you truly are the country’s best.
Panic, panic! And the minions were asking what has become of their banana.
What a disaster this guy is.
He will resign, but not before making a mockery out of the whole cabinet for their decision.
He is too proud to be treated like a little boy being sent out of the classroom.
I could picture it all him telling the so called PM “WHAT? YOU MAKE ME RESIGN NEVER. Only in Malta a minister more powerful than his Prime Minister, but that is what you get when you take everyone on board before the election, cause the end justify means.
Joseph Muscat is always boasting about his hero Mintoff but he ended being nothing but another ZERO alias Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici. What a spineless puppet.
Gvern lil jisma.
Probably he told her that she could hang up since he’s running the country now and has the prime minister on a short leash.
A couple of questions to the new Commissioner of Police:
1. Are you comfortable that your contract is governed by the new addendum, namely that is for 3 years, renewable at the minister’s discretion?
2. Will you reopen Dalli’s investigation?
3. Should the government publish the reports on two inquiries related to police operations, that are still kept secret?
Janice Bartolo is arguing about PN journalists during the press briefing when one should tell her that they weren’t even INVITED to it.
Is it true that Ray Zammit was told to resign but now he is deputy commissioner? If it’s true that’s LAUGHABLE!
Where are Joseph Muscat’s telephone recordings during the night of the shooting?
Why isn’t he publishing them? I’m very sure that if we hear Manuel Mallia’s, Kurt Farrugia’s and Joseph Muscat’s recordings we will be in for a surprise.
My comment is not related to the article above. However I’d like to say something that although it should be obvious to many still deserves to be brought to the attention of some.
Yet again this government has shown us that it is a reactive government. Instead of asking Mallia to resign straightaway Joseph Muscat had to first test the waters, as they say.
Faced with an overwhelming cry of “Mallia must go” he could not procrastinate any longer and he asked him to resign.
But then Labour governments were never proactive. I put it down to an inferiority complex. It’s strange how all their leaders seem to suffer from it.
Of course this should not be the end of the saga – it is more like the first episode in a series.
So many other heads should roll before the end, but a lot of pressure has to be put on continuously and tirelessly.
Otherwise justice would not have been really served with just Mallia resigning or being sacked. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Mallia is right in refusing to resign. If he lied, then his boss lied just as much and thus why should he go and his boss remain? They sink and swim together.
The public must not miss an important point.
Before they – the Prime Minister, his Chief Communications Coordinator, the Police Minister, their Chiefs of Stuff and their dogs – went to bed on the night of 19 November, they all knew the truth about what had happened between a side street in Gzira and the University tunnels.
The truth was out there on the main media, including on Saviour Balzan’s own MaltaToday, this website, and other online portals, well before the press release published by the OPM.
So, using the logic of the Board of Inquiry’s report as described in the section dealing with Don Manwel’s responsibilities, they should all have made it a point to issue a correct press release to rectify the cover-up in the previous version before getting into their pyjamas.
And they should all have realised that there was a cover-up and initiated action about it. If necessary, they should have taken no sleep that night.
The reason why the Board of Inquiry’s report exhonerates all the others from any knowledge of the facts, even if immediately after the press release, is beyond me.
If it was true that they had been duped by the lower ranks, they could have issued another urgent “a caldo” press release and added this to the list of crimes which had just occurred – it would not have changed much. I find it unacceptable that the DOI claims that it was providing the public with news as it came in, but then it failed to update us immediately on this part, leaving the public in the dark about the official version of true events until the press conference the next day.
The whole thing is a white wash.
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/eb/65/e1/eb65e19881713f7b6d33ae9337555459.jpg
Emmanuel Mallia acts with impunity because he is useful to the criminal underworld and they protect him.
Joseph Muscat is merely an attractive puppet with power that he wields at the pleasure of others.
In short, the real power behind the throne is the criminal underworld.
The events of the last few days have shown that we are not merely under a government made up of thieves, pimps and scoundrels. It is even worse.
The members of government are under the thumb of other masters. And what’s more, the events of the last few days have sent a worldwide message that Malta is perfectly safe for criminal activity.
Kastilja kienu qed jaraw in-NET!
http://normanvella.blogspot.com/2014/12/kastilja-kienu-qed-jaraw-in-net.html
It is unthinkable that a prime minister should ask a cabinet minister to resign but leave the final decision up to him.
This shows one of two things: either he is weak and indecisive despite his protestations or Manuel Mallia has a hold on him.
Under our Constitution, it is the prime minister who has the right to hire and fire cabinet ministers.
Article 81 of the Constitution provides that a minister’s appointment to office can be “revoked by the President, acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister” and under Article 85, the President is constitutionally bound to act in accordance with the Prime Minister’s advice.
The prime minister should have given Manuel Mallia the option to resign or else be removed.
Compare the prime minister’s handling of the Manuel Mallia affair to Barroso’s handling of the John Dalli affair. Barroso gave John Dalli thirty minutes to hand in his letter of resignation, or else.
Why is Silvio Scerri exonerated when he added the words “fl-ajru” to the cover-up statement? (See p.4 of the report)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MERCEDES-S-CLASS-W221-Pair-of-Door-Wings-Mirrors-O-S-Driver-Near-Passenger-side-/331407721733?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4d29708505
Is this worth the hassle?
“Le le le l-Mallia ma jriduhx. Assassin tal-Maltin…”
A silver BMW CBX932 just whisked through traffic at Marsa with police outriders and all fanfare. It did not have GM number plates.
Well, at least, it was an immediate response, even if it was in the negative.
The journalist did not wait for two hours to be told the obvious about the inquest.
Perhaps saying ‘sorry no comment, good day’ costs money.
Gvern bla arroganza u gvern li jisma.
Don’t you feel like all all this is going to blow up into one big show down? Mallia still head of police and army.
Cross your fingers and pray. Wow, I am gobsmacked.
Perhaps he was counting his under mattress fortune and could not be disturbed cause he may count 50000 instead of 500000.
Last night Joey looked like he’d just had his hymen ruptured.
I cannot understand this:
Scerri, the inquiry said, later admitted that he had given his input to the drafting of the report and that it was Scerri who added the words “in the air”, so that the statement read “warning shots fired in the air”.
So the specifically intentional lie in that press release was created by Silvio Scerri but he is exonerated from everything?
How come you have changed the surname Mallia to Cristian?
Usually you always refer to her as Codruta Mallia.
[Daphne – That was before I discovered via her ID registration that her real name is Codruta Cristian.]
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1633853750175558&set=vb.1630887813805485&type=2&theater
Eight of Manwel Mallia’s men were busy yesterday http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141209/local/a-hole-lot-of-trouble-man-arrested-for-filling-pedestrian-hazard-with-concrete.547539
At this point, Manuel Mallia, in typical defence counsel mode will reply by counter attack.
“Nirreferik ghar-rapport li inti ghogbok titlob minghand l-ex membri tal-gudikatura.
Nirreferik ghal fatt illi dak ir-rapport ma sabnix hati ta’ ebda cover-up.
Nirreferik wkoll ghall-fatt illi l-press release inharget mill-OPM. Ghalhekk kien kompitu tieghek bhala Prim MInistru illi ticcekkja dak li qed jinhareg ghall-istampa mill-ufficcju tieghek.
Bir-rispett kollu dovut, il-konkluzjoni tieghi hi ghal kollox differenti minn tieghek. Ghandek tkun inti illi tikkonsidra ir-rizenja”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141209/local/new-minister-expected-to-be-sworn-in-this-afternoon.547556
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/12/09/minkejja-li-mallia-ghadu-ma-rrizenjax-rapporti-qed-jghidu-li-se-jinhatar-ministru-floku/
Gvern li jisma.
I guess he has been studying the report.
Why didn’t she pass it on to his ‘chief clapper’, Leisure Clothing’s Grech Cumbo.
What a mess.
And this is one of the few samples on the MLP carnival float who is supposed to have brains.
Last one ‘IN’ first one OUT.
The Minister failed to rectify a situation he knew to be untruthful. Isn’t that what a cover-up is?
The Acting Commissioner was guilty of gross negligence, but this was not malicious: what made it gross then if not the malice?
‘Mr. Dalli said that he had requested 24 hours, so he could seek legal advice, and that resigning might have been an error because it suggested guilt
“I had no choice, the door was open, and it was simply walk out or be thrown out.” – John Dalli
Dalli was passed through the door in thirty minutes.
Passing Manwel Mallia is taking somewhat longer.
Kieku ghamel lil Ministru tas-Sawt flokk Mallia konna nuruhom x’jaf jaghmel.
There are several topics for this year’s pantos.