Muscat goes to Lija mass with THREE bodyguards

Published: August 6, 2015 at 12:33pm

A reader has just sent me photographs which she took during mass this morning in Hal Lija to mark the feast there.

The prime minister, whose father is from that village, walked in accompanied by three bodyguards. Muscat sat in the front row and his bodyguards took up a position near the entrance to the sacristy by the side altar, where they had a constant frontal view of him and of anybody who approached.

Joseph Muscat's three bodyguards

Joseph Muscat’s three bodyguards

Muscat, seen just behind the woman in yellow

Muscat, seen just behind the woman in yellow

His bodyguards stood between the altar and the entrance to the sacristy for the duration of the mass, where they could see him in the front row and also anybody who approached him

His bodyguards stood between the altar and the entrance to the sacristy for the duration of the mass, where they could see him in the front row and also anybody who approached him