Nationalist Party leadership contender Adrian Delia replies to questions about anonymous report to the police
The photograph below is of an internal report made by a police officer to his superiors, dated last September. In this report, the officer describes how that day, 13th September, the police received an anonymous telephone call alleging that “a male person” (in other words, a man) was selling drugs out of a grey Mercedes car, registration number DEL320, parked in Horses Lane in the limits of Tal-Handaq.
What follows is a translation of the report.
The police immediately went there and found the car, which was parked outside Lidl’s warehouse, but it was locked and the owner was nowhere to be seen. The police waited, and when the owner of the car turned up, they stopped him and asked him whether the car is his. He answered that it was.
He was asked whether he had illegal substances in his possession, on his person or in his car, and he replied in the negative. The police carried out an intensive search on the person in question and also his car, but nothing illegal or irregular was found.
The owner of the car is a certain Delia, Adrian (ID) 0299369M. Nothing more to report.
I sent Dr Delia the photograph of the report, with the following message:
Good evening, Dr Delia. Please would you give me your comments on this police report from last September? Why was your car parked there at the time? Do you have any idea what may have prompted this report? Daphne Caruana Galizia
He replied:
Good evening daphne ,
The report is accurate . This event had shocked me at the time as I suppose it would any law abiding citizen . As the report itself says the police had told me that this was an anonymous call and I didn’t have a clue about why and who could have done it .
Regards
Adrian
Nationalist Party leadership contender Adrian Delia with his wife Nickie Vella de Fremeaux (right) and Rebecca Dimech, a make-up artist and television performer.