Ex police commissioner is now defence counsel to man against whom he dropped charges

Can they be any more in-your-face-and-I-don’t-care corrupt?

Peter Paul Zammit, the stooge who was made police commissioner by incoming Police Minister Manuel Mallia when he sacked John Rizzo to stop him prosecuting John Dalli, forces his men to drop charges against a certain Josmar Agius.

A board of inquiry investigated the matter after the story was leaked to the press and there was a lot of fuss about it.

The inquiry board found that the police commissioner had ordered his men to drop charges because Josmar Agius was/is his client. Peter Paul Zammit, up to the point that Manuel Mallia had him ‘reinstated’ into the police force so that he could become police commissioner, was working as a legal procurator (not a lawyer).

The week the inquiry board concluded its report, Zammit resigned from his post. The press and the public were not given the reason for his resignation and the report was not published until last week, after several requests made under the Freedom of Information Act were ignored.

Zammit has spent the last few days defending himself and saying he did the right thing. But then this morning he turned up in court – as defence counsel to Josmar Agius, against whom the police were finally able to file charges after his protector resigned. The difficulty is that all charges bar one were time-barred, and that one is injuring a policeman. He is likely to get off, because what he really did – from what I gather – is breach the peace, threaten officers and try to intimidate them by saying he would ring “Peter Paul” and then doing so.

This country is bats, and not in a good one. Under Labour it just gets worse because of all the unfit-for-purpose and corrupt people cluttering up public institutions.