So they’re trying to frame this sergeant on charges that he deleted the arrest report
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December 5, 2014 at 12:54pm
Leroy Balzan Engerer at the Msida Police Station – Malta Right Now reports that they’re trying to frame him on charges that he deleted Stephen Smith’s arrest report.
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http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/12/05/il-kaz-manwel-mallia-issa-attentat-ta-frame-up/
It is reported here that an insignificant portion of Sheehan’s statement was deleted.
This makes no sense as far as motive is concerned – irrelevant of whether the deleted portion is significant or not – primarily because it is the signed original document that counts, not the digital version on PIRS. Moreover, since detection of access is guaranteed, anyone accessing PIRS with such an intent would be mad to do so in his own name.
So when it comes to motive, it makes more sense that a third party wished to compound matters further, unless, of course, it was all incidental and no one is to blame.
How to dandy with any candy.
Quoting
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141205/local/updated-police-sergeant-remanded-in-custody-over-shooting-incident.546993
“The prosecution, led by Inspector Sandro Camilleri, said the cameras were being checked by the magisterial inquiry.”
So, it turns out that they charged him without first watching the security cameras recordings. Looks that they were in a hurry.
It is simple, there are no CCTVs at all
Is he by any chance Nationalist?
[Daphne – I doubt it, given his choice of defence counsel.]
Miskin! Veru majjalata dan il-gvern.
Incredible! I hope they know that this is eventually going to blow up in their faces.
How saddening…..
http://www.timesofmalta.com/mobile/view/20141205/local/updated-police-sergeant-remanded-in-custody-over-shooting-incident.546993
Defence lawyer Franco Debono contested the charges and said his client was not at the police station at the times during which it was being claimed his client accessed the computers and asked for the security cameras to be checked.
Hawn fejn Franco qed jigi moqli b`zejtu. Issa ma jistax jghid li ma jafx bil-hnizrijiet tal-Labour.
Issa ghandu jaghzel kif ghandu jistma lin-nies. Jew bhala klijenti baqar li jehilbu l-flus jew bhal nies civili bi drittijiet tal-bniedem, tipo dak li gabulna il-Gvernijiet Nazzjonalisti, li maghhom issir gustizzja.
U hadd aktar minn Franco, li jmexxi l-kummissjoni tar-Riforma tal-Ligi, ma hu eligibbli li jirrizenja jekk jirrizultalu lilu personali li fil-qorti gustizzja ma hix issir.
“The prosecution… said the cameras were being checked by the magisterial inquiry.”
So they charged him before even checking the CCTVs, and bail was denied.
Tal-Mickey Mouse.
Meanwhile the economy crashes:
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-12-05/local-news/Trade-deficit-in-October-shoot-up-from-172-9-million-to-302-9-million-6736126874
..but framing up people is much more important than the national economy.
“Preliminary figures show that Malta registered a trade deficit of €302.9 million in October, compared to €172.9 million in the corresponding month last year.”
And last year 2013 was worse than 2012.
Labour (the party of work) doesn’t work
It all smells fishy. And yet, why would they frame him for deleting a small and relatively insignificant part of the report when they could just as easily frame him for more serious report tampering?
Also, on the topic of report deletion, one would expect the Police Incident Report Database to function on a Wikipedia-style system, so that all edits are recorded and easily reversible.
Cyrus is his first cousin. How shall he take it?
With a pinch of snuff and a sneeze.
And his lawyer is none other than Franco Debono. Never a dull moment on Taghna LKoll Malta.
Just read Times of Malta’s report – Franco Debono is defence lawyer. This case will pit him against Mallia and Muscat – at least in the general public’s eyes. Something stinks and I am sure it’s not the fish.
Will Sgt. Balzan’s superior say that he did not know that passwords or access were shared? That would be interesting.
”revealing a password to give access to official files to unauthorised personnel”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141205/local/updated-police-sergeant-remanded-in-custody-over-shooting-incident.546993
Engerer is not a common name: how is the Sergeant related to Cyrus? Is he perhaps an outlier who did not switch along with the rest of the clan?
[Daphne – He wouldn’t have picked Frankie Tabone for defence counsel if he were.]
Hadn’t noticed that. Then he’s very small, dispensable fry. Frankie continues to show that his neck is solid brass and his conflicts of interest just get deeper and deeper.
Le Roy’s father (Balzan) is from Zejtun and his mother (Engerer) is Chris Engerer’s sister. Chris Engerer is Cyrus’s father.
It is back to the 70s and 80s. I thought that what went on then will never be repeated. The worst is yet to come.
Of course. Shift the fault from the minister down to the least possible person. Pathetic.
It is reported here that an insignificant portion of Sheehan’s statement was deleted.
This makes no sense as far as motive is concerned – irrelevant of whether the deleted portion is significant or not – primarily because it is the signed original document that counts, not the digital version on PIRS. Moreover, since detection of access is guaranteed, anyone accessing PIRS with such an intent would be mad to do so in his own name.
So when it comes to motive, it makes more sense that a third party wished to compound matters further, unless, of course, it was all incidental and no one is to blame.
What a shame, Mallia has no shame putting this good police officer through hell.
Engerer – any relation to Cyrus? (Cyrus Engerer is a Maltese politician known for his public stands on Civil Rights and Malta’s National Identity)
The sky is the limit…….or is it?
He is Cyrus Engerer’s first cousin.
It- tahwida taghhom ukoll. Everyone makes his own bed in this life.
There’s no better way to commemorate Raymond Caruana’s killing and Pietru Pawl Busuttil’s subsequent frame up, than another frame up.
So true. Kudos for picking this up.
”Inspector Daniel Zammit, the commissioner’s son, was also present in the courtroom.”
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-12-05/local-news/Gzira-shooting-Police-Sergeant-remanded-in-custody-after-pleading-not-guilty-to-computer-misuse-6736126878
I remember Lee Roy out and about as he is my age and we had friends in common.
What I do remember is him celebrating in 1998(?) when the PN won the government back from Labour. Don’t know if he was just going with the flow or if he was genuinely celebrating.
[Daphne – Doesn’t say much. I remember Elena Farrugia (as she was then; she’s Mrs Edward Zammit Lewis and the Best Friend of the Spouse of the Prime Minister now) going wild on some PN-flag-bedecked bus or lorry along the Sliema front in 1998. Her father was a famous Sliema Mintoffian known as Il-Bagollu – Manuel Mallia appointed him to some army grievances review board along with Meinrad Calleja’s father – for whom Mintoff had requisitioned, from the Cassar Torregianis, the rather nice Sliema townhouse in which Mrs Zammit Lewis grew up down the street from me. But it wasn’t fashionable to be Labour in 1998. Nothing to do with politics, of course – just fashion. But that pretty much sums of the last general election, doesn’t it. Even seasoned men of 80 found themselves carried away by fashion alongside teenagers.]