BREAKING NEWS: PN media release actual recording of PC533’s first phone call to the Police Control Room/LISTEN TO AUDIO
It’s shocking. PC533 rings the Control Room and demands they send the Rapid Intervention Unit because ‘somebody crashed into the minister’s car’.
The control room operator tells him to go to the nearest police station, that he can’t send the RIU because of a crash.
PC533 shoots twice (gun-shots are heard) and then says defiantly: “I shot at him because you won’t send anyone…if you don’t send anyone, I’m going to keep shooting at him.”
THIS IS MADNESS. THIS IS NOT ONLY MADNESS. THIS IS A CABINET MINISTER’S DRIVER, A MAN HE TRUSTS SO MUCH THAT HE LEAVES HIS UNDER-10 DAUGHTER IN HIS CARE.
The operator, clearly shocked, works out that he is going to have to dispatch the RIU immediately because somebody is going to end up dead.
PC533 does not introduce himself as PC533 which is normal practice when a policeman contacts any station or police office. Instead he says “Jiena driver ta’ ministru” – a minister, without saying which one.
He also says “Ghandi l-ministru mieghi.”
After he shoots, he justifies himself by saying, as though in passing, “Jien pulizija.” Oh, so that’s all right then.
In the opening seconds of the recording, you can hear that PC533 was with somebody else. What appears to be a woman’s voice (but could be a distorted male voice) says in English “….calling?” And PC533 says roughly: “Ehe.”
IT IS NOW ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT PC533 DID NOT WANT SMITH. HE WANTED TO GET TO SMITH’S CAR AT ANY COST. HE WANTED WHATEVER SMITH HAD INSIDE IT. HE WAS SO DESPERATE TO GET TO THAT CAR AND GET HOLD OF WHATEVER IT WAS, THAT HE TOOK A MASSIVE RISK AND RANG FOR THE RAPID INTERVENTION UNIT BECAUSE IT WAS THE ONLY WAY HE’D GET HOLD OF WHATEVER IT WAS HE WANTED FROM THAT CAR.
123 Comments Comment
Reply to helen Click here to cancel reply
Absolutely shocking.
If the minister was with him, there’s no way that Sheehan was inside his mother’s house. Can you imagine Mallia running out of the house, getting into the car in time to catch up with Smith.
X’tahwid. No wonder nothing makes sense.
Mallia MUST go now. This is beyond the joke.
I’m sorry but this is an OMG moment.
Rather interesting ghax ghandi l-ministru mieghi. X’tahwid.
Shivers down my spine .. We are back to the point where the Labour Party left off in the 80s: the police in the government’s pocket, shooting and frameups. Are we safe any more?
Shame.
Shocking, yes, shocking Mr Mallia, you were with him.
Tal-misthija. Possibli il-ministru Mallia ma jafx bit-teknologija li tesisti fil-korp tal-pulizija u li jekk jigdeb ser jingabghad?
This is a government resignation matter, and not a minister’s resignation matter.
P R E C I S E L Y.
Tomorrow is a public holiday. They have ample time to pack.
My thoughts exactly.
He just had to get at that Vauxhall. Then he called his Ta’ Guzeppi Farmhouse chums.
Ghandi l-ministru mieghi. Jekk hu veru impossibli li Manuel Mallia jibqa hemm.
U Joseph Muscat mieghu.
Jekk ma kienx mieghu, x’kien qed jaghmel bil-karozza tal-ministru meta ma kienx mieghu?
Witnesses did say there was someone else in GM 14.
The Babushka ladies’ video next.
This is a case of ubiquity. Gives a whole new sense to the Don Manuel nickname, in the Don Giorgio Preca sense.
Daphne for once I beat you to it.
I heard this recording a few minutes ago.
[Daphne – So did I, on NET TV, but I had to wait until the recording had been uploaded on YouTube before I could upload it here.]
The evidence is now so damning that they should all call it a day and resign.
The whole bl**dy lot.
They have no option.
They are bl**dy liars.
They are, corrupt, devious and untrustworthy.
Unless they all go, Malta has had it.
I totally agree. Call an election.
U mela ma mmurx nohdilhom b’idejhom fuq L-Istrina. Nohdilhom zigg.
Qabda kriminali. Fottejtuh pajjiz.
#occupymalta
Ma tarax. Imbaghad il-mara kif se tibqa’ taghmel il-high teas u tmur shopping bil-karozza lussuza.
Insa, habib.
Why, so that people can vote Labour in again with maybe one seat less?
Fuq l-internet nies bhalek nghidulhom:
Give that man a cookie.
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/610/825/eec.jpg
As much as we all WISH that they would resign en masse, it simply will not happen.
Labour have strength and depth in Parliament so we can exclude anything happening there.
The minister’s driver should have been arrested immediately and Mallia should have handed in his resignation. This never happened and a cheap, poorly orchestrated cover-up story was created (Labour can’t even plot a decent cover-up).
The Prime Minister must have been aware of what was happening from day one, so, he must GO too along with Mallia. It’s that simple. If he doesn’t, then there must be some way of forcing him to relinquish power.
I’m actually asking what should/can happen if the Prime Minister is evidently involved in wrong-doing and persists in ignoring calls for him to resign.
It has to happen.
There is no way they can be allowed to remain.
OK, Tabatha, you’re the clever one here. Is there any way in which private citizens can take the Prime Minister to court for obstruction of justice, and/or conspiracy to commit a crime?
Failing that, is there any way in which the government can be taken to court over the same offence?
It can be done in the UK under an article dating back to Magna Carta.
Once they are this bad, then it is reasonable to assume that they are bad enough to stay on in government till the very end, and I am not sure they will not be voted in should another election is called.
@Baxxter
Legal interpretation and its application.
Let’s compare notes offline.
Thank you. Going through the Constitution/laws for this specific exercise is extremely interesting.
It’s not my usual everyday reading.
It was watched live from far away, Anthony. What are you, an extraterrestrial?
Of course they will not go. They will get worse and worse like the 70s and 80s, and blockheads will keep rooting for them.
For all the dirt there will be an excuse. Remember the lies, corruption and frame-ups.
Power has gone to their heads already, soyou think they will go? They have just started ‘jiffangaw’and they want more.
This one definitely nailed them.
X’INHU?!!
My God and it took them a week to arrest this lunatic.
[Daphne – Yes, and they only arrested him because they had no choice once the duty magistrate became involved.]
Holy Mother of God!
How many Red Bulls had Constable Sheehan drunk before this incident occurred, or was he high on something more powerful?
This Red Bull business needs to be discussed in the open by the Opposition and the media because, if this was all about the clipping of car mirror, the only plausible explanation for the constable’s extreme overreaction is that he was high.
No the explanation is that it was not at all about a mirror.
Did someone say we are on course to legalise some dangerous drugs?
Golden years, here we come.
What did Sheehan mean by “ghandi l-ministru mieghi”?
Did he mean that minister Mallia was a passenger in his own ministerial car?
Or that he was in direct radio/mobile contact with him?
Either way the implications are devastating.
It could mean that whatever I do the Minister will condone and fix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCP2-Bfhy04
The minister was with him while he shot!?
Mela l-Ministru mieghu kien.
At 0:38 PC533 says “Għandi l-Ministru miegħi”. Does that mean that Minister Mallia is in the car with PC533?
Ghiduli li dan pajjiz normali.
Le mhux, dejjem jekk thares lejn il-pument. Ix-xewqa pero hemm qeda alavolja hemm il-legat Mintoffjan laubusta socjalista.
He also says “Ghandi l-ministru mieghi.”
This is very interesting.
And according to Dr Mercieca tomorrow, we will know the real truth. Tomorrow MLP is going to burst another bubble to show the lies of the PN.
Lets wait and see till tomorrow.
SHAME ON THEM.
[Daphne – Who is Dr Mercieca? Can we please use full names.]
Gozo MP
Dr. Mercieca is that Dr Franco Mercieca
He’s talking about Franco Mercieca.
[Daphne – Then he should say so. The island is full of people called Mercieca.]
Send them or I’ll shoot him? And he says he was with the Minister.
To be honest there was something I didn’t quite understand about the story told regarding how he heard the other car hit his.
He had said that he was inside a house when he heard another car crash into the car he was driving, but I thought the other car just hit the mirror.
Somehow I don’t buy that, because that wouldn’t make such a sound, would it?
If I were the Police Commissioner I wouldn’t show my face in public and just hand in my resignation letter – from the police force and not just the top position.
Bit by bit, killing them softly.
Jew nghidu : bdew jinqlew f’zejthom.
This is shocking behaviour for a layman, for a person involved in the emergency services and is (or should be) trained to assess a situation, give accurate information to other emergency services, de-escalate wherever possible and protect the general public.
This is criminal behaviour. If he had been taken at his word a major incident protocol should have been triggered.
One does have to keep reminding oneself that this was over a broken car side mirror.
Thank you for giving this link, it is however terrifying.
[Daphne – Of course it wasn’t about a mirror. It was about whatever Smith ran off with in his car.]
Qed nasal f’punt fejn nithassar lil daN Ix-xufier.
L-arja li ghandu ma gabiex wahdu imma xi hadd tajjielu.
Sahansitra tawh il-binthom biex jindukrha.
Cose dell’altro mondo.
Pajjiz manikomju.
He has been waiting for the moment to start throwing his weight around for the last 25 years and when he eventually managed, it all went so horribly wrong.
How many still have that mindset and think they are living in the times when they used to get in a car with the “toto w il-qah*u” and drive around shooting buildings and people unpunished and protected?
More parts of the phone call on Net TV in a few minutes.
Tune in to NetTV
Another one coming in soon. Stay tuned.
Goodbye, Joseph. Goodbye, Manuel. Rest in peace.
Impressive how professional these police officers are. And I am not referring only to PC Sheehan but also the officer taking calls in the control room.
We can all sleep safely after hearing these two dealing with a broken car mirror.
The officer in the control room did his job remarkably well in the circumstances.
I would not have been at all surprised had he flipped completely.
The fact that he did not is to his credit.
Although the police officer in the control room could have dealt with the situation better (why didn’t he ask the caller to identify himself and say which minister he works for?), we should cut him some slack.
He was dealing with an agitated caller and he had heard him shoot at somebody. He was trying to be reasonable and was shocked when he heard the shots.
Considering the disorganized thoughts and information coming from the caller and the threats which he was clearly making to the 112 operator, the operator was handling it as best he could. Sheehan knew that the only reason why the RIU would be needed was because he was trigger happy, he could not say that to the operator could he?
The implied ‘send the RIU because the minister is here and because it is I, the minister’s driver who is ordering it’ and the stated ‘send the RIU because I am going to continue shooting him’ are a perfect example of Joseph |Muscat’s ‘bla biza jew favur’. Hypocrite, if that were really the PM’s motto, his government would not employ cowboys.
Another recording on the way shortly. Stay tuned to NET TV.
Konrad must be enjoying this weekend.
A standard case of police rage, reflecting a lack of screening, training and scrutiny.
Hopefully, the issue of who should be authorised to carry guns will now surface.
Screening, training and scrutiny are also important issues.
Tista tiddeciedi intix pro-PL jew pro-PN please?
A standard case of blatant lying at the highest levels of government.
Hopefully the issue of who should be running this poor country of ours will now surface.
Haven’t you been keeping up?
The minister suspended police firearms training because he deemed it useless.
Besides, half the police corps is now made up of reinstated pensioners who last got firearms training some 30 years ago.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-05-06/news/conflicting-views-on-whether-policemen-are-getting-training-4874338304/
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/why-is-manuel-mallia-reinstating-old-and-overweight-policemen-and-women-instead-of-recruiting-younger-ones/
Il-gvern jaf b’ dan kollu u qed jghaddi z-zmien lin-nies u l-media? Il-PN nahseb hallew lil Muscat jipprova jsalva l-froga imma issa nahseb xi hadt ha jtir.
Mhux ta’ b’xejn il-karozza giet irmunkata qabel ma bdiet l-inkjesta magisterjali.
Dalwaqt tixxantar it-tieni parti tar-recording.
“Faqali l karrozza”
For the non-Maltese speakers, he meant “he clipped my mirror”.
Liars, thieves and gangsters.
Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche:
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
I really do hope that Joseph Muscat doesn’t fire Manwel Mallia.
He can’t because Manweli financed a good chunk of the MLP’s expenses through his henchmen.
But Maweli does more good to the PN as a minister, along with his assorted quasi criminal entourage.
He is a moving liability that provides us with so many good stories, so much fodder, so much to talk about and to show us to what depraved depths the MLP sank in order to achieve power.
I really hope that he is not a dead man walking.
It is also abundantly clear that what Sheehan wants, he gets.
Kurt Farrugia, pen and paper at the ready, jotting down his version obo the Office of the Prime Minister.
Who is Donatella Frendo Dimech? How come the one who removed evidence is now no longer being charged?
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/magistrate-consuelo-herrera-has-an-intimate-dinner-with-deputy-attorney-general-donatella-frendo-dimech-and-their-men/
And why am I not surprised.
In the light of the shocking recording just made public, it is clear that the recording published by Times of Malta and Malta Today this morning is fake and intended to cover-up.
It is not possible that the Prime Minister was not informed immediately of the seriousness of what was taking place.
Ghandi l-Ministru mieghi!
So Leli was with his driver when his driver shot at someone? Can Leli please explain this?
Multitasking. Sheehan drives, phones and shoots at the same time.
The Red Bull gives you wings.
When the subsequent plot to an incident is more perverse than the incident itself, there usually lies a sinister truth to hide at all costs.
Growing in stature – the PN and its media elements. Prosit. A good recovery in a relatively short time.
And where is Smith now? And why so silent?
Mhux ovvja, bought off as he saw Mallia in the car.
Manwel Mallia is a room or two next to the control room when Sheehan calls in and admits to shooting directly at the other guy. He then sits in on the cover up. Ok siehbi?
Manuel Mallia……….Dead man walking
This is beyond shocking!
There is much more than meets the eye here, there has to be another person involved; some other person must have been in the ‘minister’s car’ for sure.
This guy does not come along as tech savvy. I can’t see his mobile phone being sync or any Bluetooth connection with the car. How can you drive at speed chasing someone and at the same time have a full phone conversation with the control room?
How much time and what happened between “Ghandi il-Ministru mieghi” and the Minister being next to the Acting Police Commissioner at the Headquarters ?
This is disgusting!
Shame on the Labour government.
Are there any eye witnesses of the car hitting the ministerial car’s side mirror in Gzira?
At this point I am even starting to doubt that happened. Sheehan said the Scot tried to block his passage during the car chase. Could it be that that was the actual moment when the car mirror got hit?
[Daphne – The nature of the breakage indicates that the mirror was dealt a blow from the top, by a person using a hard object to break it. Stop calling him ‘the Scot’. He has a name: Stephen Smith. And he is not a Scot.]
Issa min hu ggranfat mal-poter?
This government is in a shambles
Muscat is a liar (not that it is breaking news).
Where is Smith? What business did he have in that area?
Was he transporting some expensive merchandise?
Who inspected the car and what was found?
Is there some sort of relationship with the main characters in this drama?
Why is the government refusing to acknowledge the seriousness of this matter when it is so apparent to all? Worrying indeed.
That’s why they appointed an “Acting” Police Commissioner, because they wanted a good actor.
Shame on you all involved in this mess, Prime Minister included.
The big question is: what was in Smith’s car that Sheehan needed so badly? Was it white powder?
Oh god, Daph, you’re onto something bigger here. Please dedicate a post about the first 2 seconds of the video. Someone else was with him!
“Sparajt fuqu”.
I don’t think that leaves any sliver of doubt (if there ever was).
Warning shots, my foot. And still, there are people arguing in defence of Muscat and his government. Some people are just a lost cause.
Hey Daphne, please note that Ramona Attard, Manuel Mallia’s communications officer, shared the Times of Malta article on her wall as if she were only too happy to spread the word.
I am surprised by the Nationalist Party and by the majority of fellow citizens who feel stunned by the shooting episode of Minister Manuel Mallia’s driver.
Who ever expected il-Partit Mintuffjan aka PL to change?
What is happening now is simply a perfect replica of Mintoff’s regime.
Why on Earth is he asking for help from 112? What sort of help does he need?
The second person must be his brother Patrick. I remember reading in an earlier post of yours (or maybe it was a comment) that his brother went with him on the chase and then ran back to his mum’s house after the shooting took place.
[Daphne – Yes, but the Sheehan brothers don’t sound to me like they speak English, let alone to each other, and I think that word was ‘calling’.]
It is clear now that that ‘calling’ was in actual fact part of ‘this call is being recorded for security…’.
The voice is the same one and it is very clear in the next video released.
The ‘ehe’ was probably in reply to something his brother Patrick asked right before the recording began.
‘but the Sheehan brothers don’t sound to me like they speak English’
Correct, the mystery is revealed in the second recording. It is simply the answering machine in Maltese and English.
This is clearly heard in the second recording.
‘This call is being recorded’.
[Daphne – That’s it! Of course.]
What an evening.
Even that filthy, cuckolding, kleptomaniac, bastard Mintoff must be turning in his grave.
Absolutely shocked.
Was Manuel Mallia really at the police depot that evening?
The voice in the opening seconds is a digital voice announcement informing a caller that the call is being recorded.
It gets interrupted, hence seeming that someone else is on the line. But in the second tape you can clearly hear it.
So he shoots someone whilst on the line to the police knowing the call is being recorded and says the minister is with him. That smacks of desperation or just out of control.
No wonder they moved the car and picked up the wasted cartridges so quickly. One wonders what else was removed from the scene, or from Morrison Smith’s car.
Ice, ice, baby?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141207/local/audio.547166
In this conversation, the Commissioner is relaying what Sheenan is saying to Kurt Farrugia on another phone.
At 02:38 on the recording Sheenan says that the other man approached him with a Heineken bottle (!) and then clearly says “U DHALT NIGRI GOL KAROZZA GHALL-ARMA.”
The Commissioner totally misunderstands (or ‘corrects’ him) Sheenan and relays this to Kurt Farrugia as “U DAHAL JIGRI GOL KAROZZA U TELAQ.”
Sheenan hears what the Commissioner relays, realizes it’s incorrect and says “LE..EHE..EZATT”.
Sheenan tries again to correct this but the Commissioner cuts him short and says “ISA GEJJIN GHALIHA…MINUTA…”.
The Police Commissioner seemed so casual about the whole affair and didn’t even flinch on hearing that one of his officers, who I assume is trained in self-defence, ran to his car for his gun on seeing a man carrying a (tiny) Heineken bottle.
He sounded like it seemed like a reasonable reaction to him.
Any other Police Commissioner in the civilized world would have gone ballistic (intended) and have had the officer arrested on the spot.
Any other Police Commissioner in the civilized world would have also first gotten all the correct details of a crime before relaying any information to third parties.
What a sad bunch of clowns.
The real Lejber maxim is not “Taghna Lkoll” but “Ghax il-gvern taghna naghmlu li rridu”.
So embarrassing – time for this government to go.
Ghandi d-dubji tieghi kemm il-Ministru kien verament fil-karrozza ma Sheehan meta sehh dan kollu. Dan ma jnaqqas xejn mir-responsabbilta’ tal-Ministru Mallia ghaliex sal-konferenza tal-ahbarijiet l-ghada filghodu baqa’ jghid l fl-istqarrija mahruga mid-DOI kien hemm zball wiehed jigifieri li t-tiri ma gewx sparati fl-arja imma lejn il-vettura l-ohra.
Prova ohra cara, jekk kien hemm bzonn, li l-Ministru Mallia baqa’ jipprova jahbi l-verita’ li kien ilu jaf mill-gurnata ta’ qabel. Il-fatt li esprima d-dispjacir tieghu u r-rabja tard filghaxija wara kwazi 24 siegha, ikompli jikkonferma l-gideb kollu li kien diga’ qal. Fost affarijiet ohra kien qal li ma jafx min kien sewwa x-xufier tieghu. Iddeskrivih bhala ragel kwiet u fatti ohra li juru bic-car li kien qieghed dejjem jipprova jahbi l-verita’.
Manwel Mallia ma ghadux affidabbli lanqas bhala rapprezentant ta’ min tah il-vot.
Sheehan is explaining to the Control Room that he is at the roundabout “tat-tank tal-gass”.
Control Room hasn’t called in the RIU yet.
It takes him, what, 30 seconds to get to the tunnels? Who blocked off Smith’s car? The RIU?
Were they miraculously driving around in the tunnel?
Or was it Sheehan who got there first?
What did Sheehan do then? “Oqghod hemm ghax nahlih fuqek”.
If Mallia was in the car with Sheehan, at what stage did he get dropped off? Where? Where did he go from there and how?
Who concluded that Mallia was at Police HQ? Can this be ascertained? Was it an official function? Was it reported anywhere in the press? Or is the Commissioner of Police his only (perhaps false) alibi?
What happened to the story of “I heard a noise from my house and I ran out to see a car had crashed into the Minister’s car”?
How far is it from Sheehan’s mum’s house to the pixxina?
Why is the video footage of those two neighbours not going to be released?
How is it possible that not one journalist on this island is able to locate Smith?
Varist, the government’s virginity is beyond repair.
Strange how Sheehan describes the sequence of actions: someone crashed into the minister’s car, drove away, then attacked him. Mark 19-21. There’s a suspicious gap in events, assuming this is all true of course.
I find it weird that the man at the control room, after hearing two shots being fired, never asked Sheehan if anyone had been hurt so he could send an ambulance.
Mur stahba Muscat. Ja giddieb.
Methinks Smith had better watch his back.