The most gruesome murders of women in Malta were committed by Maltese men

The usual suspects are commenting beneath news reports of the murder by stabbing of a Maltese woman, presumably by her Libyan boyfriend, in St Paul’s Bay.

One of them, known for her racist comments all over the internet, asks: ‘Where are the UNHCR and the NGOs?’

I replied (I just had to):

The UNHCR and ‘NGOs’ – which ones? – have nothing to do with this. Libyan citizens come to Malta by the normal channels on visas issued by the Maltese government. They are not refugees, nor are they trafficked.

When David Schembri stabbed his ex girlfriend 50 times in front of their small daughter, after breaking down the door of her flat, and left her dead in a sea of blood, it wasn’t his nationality that was responsible for his behaviour.

Then there are the usual men who see fit to warn ‘their’ Maltese women about the dangers of consorting with dark strangers from the south. You know how it is – you’ll invariably end up dead. I couldn’t help replying to them, too:

Nationality and passports have nothing to do with this. Women are killed by their husbands and boyfriends the world over, including in Malta by Maltese men.
The most gruesome murders of Maltese women – both of them were stabbed around 50 times and one of them had lavatory bleach poured over her while she was crawling around bleeding – were committed by the fathers of those women’s children: in one case, the husband, and in the other case, the ex boyfriend. Both men were Maltese.

The fact that this problem spans all cultures across the globe strongly suggests that the inclination of (some) men to react to anger and frustration by killing their women is hardwired into their biology.

I think that the police historian Eddie Attard will tell us, if consulted, that almost all the women murdered in Malta since records began to be kept were murdered by their husband, boyfriend, a man who fancied them and felt rejected, or were prostitutes murdered by clients.