More twisted tales: cocaine, cash and weird justice

There’s a crazy court case going on at the moment in which a man stands accused of having stolen tens of thousands of euros (they were Maltese liri back then) in 2005, when he was just 17, from the cocaine dealer Mario Camilleri, known as L-Imniehru, with the help of Camilleri’s then teenage daughter.

The daughter, Sarah Camilleri, was not prosecuted because her father, who died of a heart attack while being forced to watch his 20-year-old son being bludgeoned to death in a drug-war reprisal by their captors in 2013, did not want charges to be made against her.

I say that the court case is crazy because the cash which the Camilleris kept at home, and which was stolen from them, came from cocaine-dealing, but this seems to be the great unmentionable – even though Mario Camilleri spent years in prison for those crimes, and put two judges in prison – including the chief justice – when he bribed them to cut his prison term on appeal.

Life in Malta is like living in a bad novel. You wouldn’t believe that such a tiny island, with a marginal population, would have so much crime and weirdness going on.