The Spouse of the Prime Minister took a cameraman and photographer with her to Brussels. Who paid?

Published: March 2, 2015 at 2:02pm

I have received this email from a parent of a child at the Brussels school which Mrs Muscat visited (see Labour Party TV video in earlier post).

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Dear Ms Caruana Galizia,

I have just read your blog re MaxMara label.

FYI

– Parents were informed more than a week in advance that she will be visiting the school on Tue 24th.

– The day before her visit, parents were informed by email that because the event would be filmed and photographed by “Ms. Muscat’s film crew”, they had to give their permission due to privacy restrictions (this is procedure).

– Apparently children had to miss some lessons.

– There was 1 cameraman and 1 photographer.

– Children’s impression about Michelle Muscat: barbie-lady with a lot of make-up.

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Meanwhile, I am reliably informed that Mrs Muscat did not buy her quilted, hooded jacket – the label of which is at the centre of this controversy – at Max Mara in Malta, and that it was most certainly not sponsored by them.

So the only possible explanation, given that the cameraman was in Mrs Muscat’s personal entourage, is that she instructed him to zoom in on her clasped hands. Now we have to work out what it is she wanted us to notice: her manicure, her ring, or her jacket label.

I invite you all to take a closer look at the ring and try to work out what it is about it that she might want us to be looking at. The manicure is just a manicure. So really it’s a toss-up between the Max Mara label and the ring. The ring is on her right hand, which means that it is probably not a gift from her husband.

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