This is strictly police business and the government should not have got involved to release any statement except one that announced the minister’s resignation.

The government is insane to have leaked this phone conversation in the belief that it helps its case. It does the exact opposite. It is proof that the government is interfering in police work to pervert the course of justice, aided and abetted by the Police Commissioner himself.

They are so corrupt that they do not even understand that what they are doing here is a very serious crime. The Police Commissioner himself is perverting the course of justice and should be placed under immediate arrest. That is what we have come to.

Well he didn’t get the defence he deserved, that’s for sure. Why? Because he’s tainted by association.

Talk about bias and prejudice!

Otherwise, his is an interesting side issue, reflecting the pendulum swing from cover-up to covering up the cover-up with a backspin that ended up in a smash – in ping-pong terms, that is.

I bet Franco Debono is going to have a field day with this one. You can bet on that pony.

Who else was at that dinner? Where was Kurt Farrugia when those calls were made? Who was present with Kurt Farrugia?

We are missing the hidden hand behind Kurt Farrugia, who would have instructed him to proceed on this course of action.

[Daphne – The hand behind Kurt Farrugia is not hidden but written into the Constitution: the Prime Minister.]

Because they thought they could get away with it, as they probably have done on other occasions.

Can you tell me how a CHASING car can be damaged ON THE DRIVER’S Side by a CHASED car?

The information Medialink released has the minister asking in the background where the shots hit the car.

This happened at about 21:30.

A few minutes later the superintendent at the site also made it clear to the Police Commissioner that the shots had hit the car.

There is no doubt that by the time the ‘damning’ DOI press release was prepared and released (around 23:00), all those involved knew what had really happened.

The incident sparked the battle of revenge. Now the whole government is in deep trouble that has also brought the country nearly to a standstill.

[Daphne – Stephen Smith is not a Scotsman. L-Iskocciz is their name for him.]

I also cannot come to the terms with the super human speed with which Mr Sheehan tore down to the parked minister’s car from his mother’s apartment upon hearing the crash to catch up with Mr Smith.

A hit-and-run specifically excludes hanging around after the “hit” to see if somebody will turn up. So that excuse was DOA, and I simply cannot understand how it got repeated ad nauseum.

Secondly, the Maltese are not exactly a critically minded people. If Kurt Farrugia was told by the police commissioner, no less, that “warning shots” were fired and then saw a bullet-riddled car, I wouldn’t be surprised that he would have assumed that, for the police, the shoot-out fell under the definition for “warning shots”.

In fact, probably, short of finding somebody dead, pretty much anything could have been sold to him as a warning shot.

I also can’t fathom in what universe can “ma sparajtx fuqu” be consistent with “tajtu giex tiri”.

Lee Roy Balzan did not get stick from this blog. The argument was about who Cyrus is going to blame for his cousin’s arraignment.

You do remember that he blamed the PN for the investigations about his father.