Nationalist Party releases 5th phone recording: “Jien sparajt fuqu ta!”
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December 8, 2014 at 2:46pm
Listening to these calls, I can’t help but be struck by the total lack of professionalism in the police control room. Is this the way they normally handle emergency calls?
This one – a PC Ciangura – even tries to work out where Sheehan is, when Sheehan says that he is near a roundabout with a Madonna (what Madonna? I never noticed one…) by asking him “Il-Madonna ta’ hdejn is-suwed?”
The Madonna near the blacks?
That is, I suppose, a reference to the Marsa roundabout near the Open Centre where African refugees live. And this is a police officer.
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Apparently, Labour’s move now is to give more false information so that one would not know what is true and what is not.
It might not be a bad idea if we give an official name to every tunnel and bridge. We are talking about 17 by 9 miles and its total confusion.
This was a case involving two cars, one policeman and one civilian and it is a perfect example of what NOT to do in an emergency. After hearing the audio, one would not want to think of what might go on in a national disaster. A post mortem of this incident is a challenge of epic proportions.
Was Mr. Smith charged with resisting police or is this another lie?
That’s exactly what I was thinking, Mila. Can’t believe that the police don’t have some sort of code for tunnels, “highways” etc.
And what about ambulances and fire-engines? Is this how they find (or don’t find) their way around?
They ought to seek advice from the London taxi association. You’ll never get a cab licence there if you don’t know every hospital, hotel, school, and so on and so forth and how to get there by the shortest possible route.
“Aw Ciangura jien…gej sal-Marsa noqodu nduru bil-gagga tal-ghasafar f’idna, bil-jeans mtella sa l-irkoppa.”
So no drug deal?
Just Red Bull and testosterone.
that’s what it looks like.
Thank God for that. Imagine that the highest people in the land involved in such a thing. Could you imagine the consequences.
PC Ciangura vera pulizija injorant biex ma jafx fejnha l-mina l-fuq mill-Kappara lejn il-Marsa. Ghal giehna dan pulizija tal-mobile squad, suppost jaf it-toroq.
Lanqas meta beda jipprova ifehmu ma beda jifhem.
IQ ta’ fellus.
I think Ciangura was not at the control room but in a police car. He was speaking over the radio.
There is a niche with a Madonna between on the left hand side the Kappara roundabout and the tunnels but there are no blacks there.
F’liema stat irreducew il-Korp tal-pulizija, etc. Gejna fi stat tal-biki.
Actually, he sounds rather stupid. Listening to him repeating the directions was funny. Anyone who drives would know where the Santa Venera tunnels are.
It’ s the Tal-Qroqq tunnels.
It wasn’t funny. It was an emergency with a nutter on the loose, gun in hand and a child in the car, firing live ammunition on public roads. And the first responders are clueless and will be the next time the emergency is yours.
Paul Sheehan does sound “mentally challenged”.
It seems anyone can qualify to be a policeman or policewoman in Malta.
And does it need to take them minutes to understand where probably the busiest road in Malta leading to the tunnels near the University is? It’s not like some Godforsaken alley in a rural village. God, please help us in an emergency.
During this recording at about 0:23 Mallia’s driver sounds somehow satisfied with his work.
And not a single one of the life-saving questions was asked:
1. Are you injured?
2. Is anyone else injured?
3. Is anyone in danger?
4. How many people are in the party?
5. When did it happen?
The default position is that the target deserved it because a minister’s driver fired the shots and called 112.
In the first phone call, Sheehan only identified himself towards the end. And even when he did, the control room operator cannot be sure it’s really the minister’s driver, or a police officer.
And even if the operator were sure, there could still be an injured person.
“Dak trid tmur l-eqreb ghassa.” Brilliant. And what if someone was injured in the assumed hit-and-run?
See, this isn’t a Labour problem. It’s a Maltese problem.
U ija mhux xorta. Nghozzu l-qamel ghax minn dejjem hekk konna.
Dak Baxxter is getting on everyone’s nerves. Viva l-PN, u inkomplu kif konna. I’m not having it.
It’s a low IQ problem.
Sheehan speaks to Smith in Maltese in full knowledge that he can understand him. He must have known him already as otherwise he would have spoken English.
Sheehan is incoherent in Maltese. I doubt he can speak English properly, if at all.
PC Ciangura is as thick as a brick.
Imagine if you were calling in an emergency and this was your last breath, and you can’t repeat yourself a million times.
“Ciangura hawn, ghandi xorti naf nahra. Imnalla ghandi sormi l-isfel jien.”
Farrkulna l-pajjiz, istituzzjoni wara l-ohra.
The “madonna” he is speaking of is a niche on the left side of Regional Road between the Kappara round-about and the university tunnel.
I question the dynamics of events from the moment Sheenan heard the crash. Those who know the whereabouts of tal-Golden Harvest, where they say the car was parked initially, can understand better, or rather get even more suspicious.
Sheenan must have been in the car when the alleged ‘crash’ happened.
And that raises even further the question: “Was it really a crash?” I’d say NO.
Smith jitkellem bil-Malti.
Tghid dan ix-Sheehan ma jigix minn Franco Debono hux?
At which point did the minister get out of the car and go to the police headquarters leaving his daughter behind?
In the first call Sheehan says that he is with the minister.
Later he calls the depot to demand to speak to the minister claiming that he has the minister’s daughter with him.
Was this child put in a position to witness this criminal activity and in so much danger and with her father’s approval? Did he really leave the scene of crime and left his daughter behind?
Since when is being a policeman authorized to use a gun.
“Sparajt fuqu” u “Jien Puluzija”. Ar’hemm hej – My name is Bond, James Bond, Licenced to kill. Anzi ma kienx id-007.
In the scenario you describe, Mallia’s other driver, il-Machine Gun, would have picked up Mallia and daughter, gone to Sheehan’s mother and dropped the child there and proceeded at full speed with Mallia to headquarters.
There’s also the other Sheehan brother in the picture. He could easily have taken care of the child.
That is why it is important to know what the function was and for what time it was scheduled.
There’s a statue of Our Lady halfway between the Kappara roundabout and the tunnel entrance. I have no idea who looks after it but it’s maintained pretty well – fresh flowers and candles &c..
What more can you expect from a country characterised by mediocrity at all levels and sectors of society?
Please note the panic in his voice as he is making these calls compared to the relatively calm voice he used when he phoned the police commissioner.
The difference is remarkable, and I believe this further indicates that the police commissioner phone call was staged.
My boyfriend drives though that tunnel every night and it so happens that he was there at the time. We unknowingly spent some thirty minutes speaking in the car. I can’t help but thank God for what seems to be a blessing.
What struck me is how Sheehan started ordering around the Rapid Intervention Unit officers when technically they should be there to arrest him.
This PC Ciangura is really great with street directions. I’m still wondering where this Madonna tas-Suwed is situated.
PC Plum of Balamory BBC kids TV makes more sense than the whole lot.
“What’s the story in Balamory, wouldn’t you like to know?”