‘Cocaine’ club president expresses solidarity with reject Toni Abela

John Mula, president of the Hal Safi Labour Party club (and if Hamrun is a village, then what is Hal Safi) has taken to Facebook to express his solidarity with Toni Abela, who was rejected today for membership of the European Court of Auditors.

The Hal Safi club was the very one at the centre of the cocaine-dealing scandal which featured so heavily in Abela’s interrogation by the European Parliament committee this afternoon.

The club executives – I believe Mula was among them – happened on a brick of cocaine being carved up in the Hal Safi Labour Party club kitchen and their reaction was to call Toni Abela, Labour’s deputy leader for party affairs, rather than the police. By that time, the cocaine had been “disposed of” and Abela was recorded in conversation with the club bosses saying that the best he could do was find a “Labour-supporting policeman (pulizija Laburist) but that he wouldn’t do that either.”

The recording then hit the media shortly before the general election of 2013 and was brushed off by Joseph Muscat, Abela, the Labour Party and every idiot who voted for them. It certainly wasn’t brushed off by the European Parliament committee today.

And did you notice something very interesting during that session? The MEPs asked him about cocaine-dealing specifically, and Abela never once denied that it was cocaine, which he would have done, immediately and categorically, if it hadn’t been cocaine.

Instead he said that he did nothing wrong and the police investigated him and said he did nothing wrong. In the recording of his conversation that time, he called it ‘a block of ice’. This is exactly how people have talked about it since. I’m the only one, on this website, who decided that it could have only been cocaine and that I was damned if I was going to use euphemisms like “blokka silg”. He could bloody well sue me if it wasn’t cocaine, I reasoned to myself, and he didn’t. So forget the ‘blokka silg’ – after today’s session in the European Parliament, you are free to call it by its name: cocaine-dealing in a Labour Party club.

Johan Mula with his friend in ice, Toni Abela