Sheehan sounds like a schoolchild who’s lying when he says it’s about the mirror
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December 7, 2014 at 11:38pm
The wing mirror was definitely broken right off. We saw that in the footage that night. But I somehow got the feeling that it was broken clean off with a hard blow from the top. A blow with a handgun, for instance, by somebody who needed an excuse.
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Brava.
Told you so earlier.
Same feeling when he speaks about the “flixkun tal-heineken”.
By the way, was this crucial piece of evidence retrieved by the police?
TVM.COM.MT – nothing about the latest revelations – how disgusting.
The PN needs to take action about PBS. Start by boycotting Dissett.
Boycotts don’t work. Have you forgotten Alfred Sant and Xarabank?
Agreed 100%. The impression I got is that the police officer who answered him “Ijja” did not believe him at all.
Absolutely spot on. Imagine yourself in the Rapid Intervention Unit, control room, or district police station, being called by a Minister’s driver in an emergency on the busy Regional Road in a busy district, to be told that the report made to the emergency numbers as “faqghali l-karozza tal-Ministru” means a broken wing mirror. What would your reaction be like?
Mine would be “WTF?”
When I saw that the mirror was missing from the Mercedes-Benz, it created the image in my head of someone smashing down on it to break it off.
[Daphne – Yes, me too.]
”Mirror Mirror on the wall
Who is the crookedest of them all?”
Mirror, Mirror on the car.
Who is crookedest so far.
There is someone who can also let us know what really happened that night. Where is Smith , can someone get hold of him and ask him?
I am expecting he should be called to the witness stand at some point or other – he is probably the most important witness in all of this.
[Daphne – Bit difficult given that he’s probably done a runner with prior agreement, isn’t it. You don’t imagine for one moment, do you, that the deal they struck didn’t involve him not appearing as the main witness in the trial of PC Sheehan? In any case, the law precludes people from testifying if they stand to incriminate themselves by doing so.]
Is his wife still in Malta? The journalists should chase her instead.
Joseph’s second republic. It’s fantastic.
You mean banana republic, surely. And it’s fenominali.
Cyrus Engerer’s biography of Joseph Muscat is called Malta Li Rrid Nghix Fiha. If this is it, you must be the only one to wish to live in it.
Even Engerer himself fled to Brussels, taking his boyfriend with him.
I concur fully. This incident was certainly not about the mirror.
If the minister was in that car – in the parking lot near national pool – what was the deal? How come Smith was not booked for drink driving?
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/it-is-quite-obvious-that-this-is-not-the-first-phone-call-but-a-follow-up-in-which-the-script-was-being-written/#comment-2830372
Għafsu mal-ħajt fejn? Triq Wied il-Kappar ‘one way’ u dejjem ipparkjata zewġ naħat, Triq Nazju Ellul l-istess.
Fejn għafsu mal-ħajt? Smith kien warajh u prova jaqbżu? Min kien qiegħed issuq wara min?
Milli jidher mir-ritratti publikati jidher li il-mera ta’ GM14 aktarx tkissret b-daqqa ta’ ponn minn fuq u mhux b’habta.
Il-mera ta’ Smith mihiex milquta.
In the first recording, Sheehan says “faqghali l-karozza tal-Ministru,” but does not specify the damage.
It is only in the second recording that we know that the damage consisted of a broken mirror.
The excuse given in the first recording was a pure lie. There was no damage to the car, but the driver had to give an excuse for requesting the assistance of the police.
There was some other urgency. The absence of damage to the car, together with the need to follow that Vauxhall and stop it, was probably the reason why he didn’t want to go to the nearest police station.
Then, at the time he stopped in the tunnels, someone must have thought that breaking the mirror would be a reasonable, but cheap, excuse for the calls made to the police.
Were the pieces of the mirror ever recovered or did they go the way of the bullet casings?
Yes, he does sort of whine.
What doesn’t match is how the underside of the mirror, that’s the piece which hinges on the servo arm on the fixed mount, remains fully extended even though the top is in pieces.
[Daphne – That’s why I said it looks like somebody broke it by hitting down hard on top, say with a gun.]
It’s true this particular E class has the fixed mount extend out rather more than usual, but that would have itself protected the whole mirror in an impact from another mirror.
One could point out the integrated strips of the indicator, but still the underside remains intact and out.
Mercedes Benz is notorious for its painstaking attention to practical details as this.
Basically yes, it looks like some whack from the top. What no-one saw was the Insignia’s passenger’s mirror.
The mirror is a detail. The real question is: why was the minister for home affairs in a car with a gun-carrying driver in the car park of the national pool at night on a weekday in November confronting another man who turned tail and ran?
The different versions being bandied about regarding the exact location of our bulky Minister i/c the Police – whether in a car being “titfaqqa'” in Gzira or jollifying at a social function at the Police headquarters – raise all sorts of suspicions and would be funny if the whole episode were not so ominous and so tragic.
This comment by La Redoute should be a headline.
What, if the minister really was with Sheehan at the time, were they doing in such a place at such a time?
I think the mirror was an excuse because it have could easily be damaged during the chase
A bit off-topic, but looking at Maltastar gives you the impression it’s not even attempting to report on Maltese current affairs.
How pathetic.
They are calculating
Totally. From what I understand he says on the phone that the other driver wrecked his car. But then it’s just the mirror. A bit of an exaggeration.
My thoughts exactly
Why did they remove the Opel so quickly? Was there something in it?
In the second recording Sheehan is heard saying “Ghinuni. Zommuhuli ghax ga harabli darbtejn.”
Who was there helping him in the tunnels? Were these persons just around the corner to have arrived so quickly?
[Daphne – Inspector Gabriel Micallef and Pawlu L-Machine Gun. They’re right there in the photographs taken in the tunnel.]
The way that Sheehan is rambling and the pitch of his voice show agitation tipping into hysteria. Was he high on something?
Was the minister really with him? Was it an excuse just to get the Rapid Intervention Unit there faster?
What was in Smith’s car?
Is this a drug deal gone bad?
Really, really feel comfortable knowing that the Police are not protecting you but themselves. And their drugs.
How would have Sheehan reacted if his Minister’s car was truly smashed?
Marlene Farrugia – Bla kliem – exactly.
Dan faqa il-karozza ta’ xi ministru jaqaw?
I’m sure one of your more talented readers can create a great meme, maybe dubbing in a few extracts from the phone calls.
http://www.inewsmalta.com/dart/20141207-stunt-mill-pulizija-waqt-paqpaqli-all-istrina
But was he lying about the presence of the Minister while he was on the phone with the police? Wasn’t the Minister attending a social function at that time? Who is lying and is anyone tellng the truth?
I’ve yet to see someone getting so worked up over a mirror on someone else’s car.
Let’s say Sheehan wasn’t lying when he said that the Minister was with him. Wouldn’t this change quite a lot of theories?
And maybe the fact that the Minister was actually with Sheehan at the time was the reason why Smith wanted to speak to the Minister?
Could it be that the cover up is not the Minister helping to cover up up Sheehan, but a whole cover up to protect the Minister who was actually with Sheehan?
I think we need to start thinking a bit out of the box here.
I agree 100% with the conclusion in this comment. The Scotsman’s car showed no sign of damage and aren’t BMWs supposed to be more robust than Vauxhalls? Why are not any of the Vauxhall’s mirrors damaged too?
[Daphne – Stop calling him The Scotsman. He has a name: Stephen Smith. And he is not Scottish.]
Jekk Sheehan kien qed jigri wara Smith, kif qatt Smith jafas bil-karozza li Sheehan.
Sa fejn naf jien min ikun fuq wara jafas lil ta’ quddiem u mhux kontra. Fit-telfonati li smajna kien hemm hafna tahwid, u t-tahwid, tahwid igib.