Manuel Mallia’s former household servant explains why she fled back to Romania; claims there was “no food and water in the house”

Published: June 29, 2013 at 11:10am

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Beneath a post which includes a photograph of the Minister of National Security and Mrs Emmanuel Mallia, I have received a string of seven comments, all from the same woman (I have her name) and all from the same IP number in Romania.

This woman worked as a household servant for Emmanuel Mallia – before he was elected to parliament and made minister – but fled back to Romania because she claims she could not contend with the abject conditions under which she had to live and work. She asks me to publicise those conditions “in all newspapers”.

One of the comments is in her native Romanian. For the others, she has quite obviously used an online translation facility like Google Translate, to render them into a form of English. The meaning remains clear, even though the translation is a little garbled.

Apart from the Romanian language and the incontrovertible Romanian IP (there are other factors), we can see that these comments are genuine. She says she was sent “every morning and evening” to fetch water for the children’s baths and for the washing.

Anybody who reads that without knowing about the jerry-cans and the Mainguard fountain will have no idea what she means here. Who sends the household servants to fetch water from the equivalent of the village pump, in 21st-century Malta? It would mean nothing unless we knew the context already, which we do.

The fact is that women who worked in Manuel Mallia’s household were regularly seen coming down Republic Street with two pushchairs containing empty jerry-cans covered with a cloth. When they reached the Mainguard fountain (the old one in the wall), they brought out the jerry-cans, filled them, put them back in the pushchairs, covered them with a cloth and walked back to the Mallia house overlooking Hastings garden.

When this particular woman says that she could not bear to stay in Manuel Mallia’s house any longer because there was no water, I have the strangest feeling that she is not referring to bottled water for drinking.

I cannot reach Minister Mallia’s communications officer for comment, perhaps because it’s a public holiday today. But if Ramona Attard is reading this, she may telephone me immediately to indicate whether the minister wishes to give a statement of reply. If he does so wish, I will upload it immediately it is emailed through, in a separate post with the same prominence.

I feel it necessary to point out, this being Malta, that this is not a ‘personal’ story. Emmanuel Mallia is a cabinet minister, a minister of state. Here we have accusations of exploitation by one of his household servants, who preferred to return to Romania rather than carry on living and working in his household.

It is also intimated that the household mains water supply was turned off, and that this is why the household servants were sent to fetch water morning and evening (from the fountain at the Mainguard).

Had Manuel Mallia not been an elected politician, still more a cabinet minister, none of this would have been any of our business. But he is a cabinet minister and this makes it a public-interest issue. We need his side of the story, and we need an explanation – he cannot deny it, as there are eyewitnesses – as to why his household servants were sent regularly to fetch water from the public fountain at the Mainguard.

The numbering of the comments, reproduced below, is my own – to indicate that they are separate comments.

1. mallia dot in the house is not food and water

2. i spent 8 months i stayed with her day and night their mother is histerycal walk with witches.not true.what say codruta. are lies.

3. no food in the house emanuell mallia

4. every morning and evening sent me to bring the kids bath water and even washing said Mrs. codruta baut.iam please if you want to change the lady and talk nice we still stay in your house if you do not Instead, we go to Romania.

5. Mrs. I could not stay in the house because Mr Mallia had not food and water could not live a nam these conditions. do occur in all newspapershas two disabled children stayed all day at school with her two children eat once a day and then debris. instead stay home with my mother adopted daughter who has two years and five months. states and daughter was doing and eating and washing hand clothing. 2 more ladies to the mall Emanuell first lady home was but could not resist and went to Romania.

6. Mrs. I could not stay in the house because Mr Mallia had not food and water could not live a nam these conditions. do occur in all newspapers

7. doamna dnu emanuel mallia e un hot un mincinos eu am fost ultima dadaca si nam mai putut rezista




121 Comments Comment

  1. anonymous says:

    My mouth is literally hanging open. Oh my God.

  2. La Redoute says:

    I can see where this is going. The explanation will be that Manuel Mallia had no knowledge of what was going on and that it’s all his wife’s fault.

    • Last Post says:

      He could even dismiss the whole matter invoking an “online frame-up” to damage his reputation.

      On a different topic, my mind made a link to your previous post involving Valerie Borg’s outburst on “Il-Mument” at the government’s insensitivity in handling the transfer of one of her work colleagues.

      True to form she also expressed her hope that Joseph Muscat will intervene to reduce the suffering of her colleague.

      I’d like to advise Ms Borg that at her age she should ponder the meaning of the Maltese proverb: “Ma’ min rajtek xebbahtek”.

    • Min Jaf says:

      Yes, but no doubt his wife was only obeying orders.

  3. Plagarised says:

    Couldn’t find the original article so I’m posting here.

    Mallia might have actually broken the law with engaging police officers as waiters.

    (1) No person shall act as a food handler without registering as such with the Food Safety Commission.

    (2) No person shall employ any food handlers in any food business who are not registered with the Food Safety Commission and are in possession of a current registration document.

    LEGAL NOTICE 178 of 2001, as amended by Legal Notices 137 and 426 of 2007.

    [Daphne – Thank you. I’ve uploaded this as a separate post. Thanks again.]

  4. GiovDeMartino says:

    I am morally convinced that Ms. Caruana Galizia’s comments are worth more than all the efforts of the Opposition put together. She is in a class of her own.

  5. Antoine Vella says:

    I believe that exploitation of immigrants is a criminal offence. Any chance that Peter Paul Zammit will investigate?

  6. Herbie says:

    OMG. Turns out to be a miser more than Mintoff apparently.

  7. La Redoute says:

    What are Mrs Prime Minister’s views on this particular household? During Labour’s maratona, she’d snatched the microphone from Ray Azzopardi to tell us that it is tal-misthija li ghad ghandna f’ Malta nies li jghixu fl-ghaks.

    Did she instruct the police/waiters at Girgenti to prepare doggie-bags of leftovers for the Mallia household?

    Incidentally, for someone who keeps his household in a such a severe state of deprivation, Manuel Mallia looks rather well fed himself.

  8. Giovanni says:

    I just hope that a NET crew goes up to Romania and get an exclusive interview.

    • Alfred Bugeja says:

      Sadly, they cannot afford it and I doubt Standard Publications can.

      That leaves us with Allied Newspapers, but I doubt they would dare.

  9. Antoine Vella says:

    I have used various online services to decode the last message and the most plausible translation is this.

    Mrs. DNU (Dr?) Emanuel Mallia is a thief a liar and I was the last nam babysitter could not resist.

    In Romanian ‘hot’ means thief and ‘mincinos’ liar. I could not find any meaning for ‘nam’.

    • anonymous says:

      I think it is ‘man’. If you read the other sentences and replace ‘nam’ with ‘man’, it will make sense.

  10. samuel says:

    How’s that for “xoghol prekarjat” eh, Manuel?

    • Last Post says:

      And how’s that for “drittijiet tal-minoranzi u drittijiet civili”?

      You did so well to invite Mallia’s communication office to come up with a ministerial explanation.

      This is not a personal matter but a public one because such behaviour impinges on his role and function as a minister and cabinet member.

      Il-veru tal-mistħija, anzi tad-daqqiet ta’ ħarta.

    • Natalie Mallett says:

      Marie Louise Coleiro will you investigate this case?

  11. Kevin says:

    Shouldn’t this case be investigated as an episode of precarious work? Where is Minister Marie Louise Coleiro Preca?

    • Josette says:

      This is not precarious work. This is pure exploitation.

      I do not know how much the lady was paid but the use of the word “thief” in respect of her employer makes me think that it was either not a lot or maybe even not at all.

      The household must also be in a condition which appears not to respect any basic rules of hygiene with no, or actually controlled access, to running water.

      How can any of them wash up with no running water – or do they all get sponge baths (must be quite a big sponge for Suor Mallia)?

      And how can any one even think of using water from a public fountain to bathe little children when there is easy access to running water (if the main were on)?

      And no food or drink? This man is a mean old bully who takes advantage of people who are in an extremely vulnerable position. And people voted for him.

  12. Min Weber says:

    Daphne, I cannot find the post for which this comment would be relevant.

    But I have a couple of questions:

    1. What exactly is Michelle Muscat’s constitutional role?

    [Daphne – The Prime Minister’s spouse has absolutely no Constitutional role. Her social role is purely a matter of choice. A discreet veil had best be drawn over Mrs Borg Olivier. Mrs Mintoff had run away to England at one point and was threatening to divorce her husband until she was persuaded out of it with the aid of British diplomats, but she nonetheless lived largely a life separate to her husband’s. Mrs Fenech Adami wished to live as normal a life as possible and hated the trappings and fuss that went with her husband’s job. She preferred to stay out of the limelight. Mrs Gonzi was often at her husband’s side, but never sought the limelight for herself and, when she appeared in public without her husband, it was solely in support of charities. The work she did was for selected charities.]

    2. When the PM is in Brussels (or anywhere else abroad), who is Deputy PM? Louis Grech? If Grech is abroad too, who’s the Senior Minister who should be deputizing for the PM? Why isn’t protocol being respected? Is this merely protocol or are there laws too?

    [Daphne – When the prime minister is away, the deputy prime minister stands in, hence the name. The prime minister’s wife is nowhere in the equation. In exceptional/particular situations, it would be the relevant cabinet minister: e.g. EBU conference – Broadcasting Minister.]

    • john says:

      Mrs Borg Olivier was a great asset to her husband in every way in the early years. It is only when he began to go astray that things turned out as they did. Throughout, she was a devoted mother to her children.

      [Daphne – Yes, I know all about it. I can’t not have done, really, growing up where and when I did. I just didn’t wish to discuss it.]

    • Alfred Bugeja says:

      If both the PM and his deputy are away, it is the most experienced cabinet minister who would be acting PM.

      In the last legislature it was, lo and behold, Giovanna Debono. That would mean that in this case it would be Il-Guy.

  13. Sandra Shields says:

    Other questions come to mind. Isn’t this ‘xoghol prekarju’?

    Was this household servant registered? Did he pay her N.I.? I still remember what the PL said about Tonio Fenech’s helper a few years back.

  14. Wilson says:

    Preferring to leave Malta and go back to Romania is enough of an explanation in itself.

    • TinaB says:

      I wouldn’t be surprised to discover that Mrs Mallia wishes she could have fled back to Romania with her servant.

      I can’t imagine what it would be like to be married to a man who seems to be even worse than Dom Mintoff in terms of miserliness and control.

      • ken il malti says:

        Manuel Mallia eats all the food in his house himself and leaves very little left for anyone else.

        I mean look at the corpulent guy and then look at his chopstick thin wife.

        Mallia is a food-sucking monster that must be stopped.

      • Grosvenor says:

        Yes, he is a control freak.

  15. Sparky says:

    Only one option for this sad lot, and Mallia should set the ball rolling – resign.

    It was entertaining at the start, now it’s verging on the nauseatic.

    Those who voted to oust Gonzi should hang their head in shame.

  16. Gahan says:

    7.DNU Mrs. Emanuel Mallia is a thief a liar and I was the last nam could not resist babysitter

  17. willybegood says:

    NAM, is the short for ‘Nu Am’ mai potut rezista…….

    I [anylonger] [couldn’t] resist.

  18. Neil says:

    What a thoroughly repulsive man, in all aspects pertinent to the word.

    I wonder if he’ll try to sue now, Daphne – and request a custodial sentence?

  19. mario camilleri says:

    Daphne, would it not be a good idea to have this Romanian girl tell you how much was she paid by Dr. Mallia?

    [Daphne – Yes. But we should also put the question to the Minister himself. He still has Romanian household servants. He needs to be quizzed about the conditions under which they are kept.]

    • C Falzon says:

      Are we sure he does still have Romanian servants?

      Why would he be paying for servants from Romania, even if a pittance, when he can get them for free from the police force ?

    • Tinu says:

      To investigate ‘xoghol prekarju’ no one is more qualified than Toni Zarb, the secretary of the GWU. Come on Toni, roll up your sleeves, you’ve got a nice story here for L-Orizzont or It-Torca.

    • carlos says:

      What has the GWU’s Tony Zarb to say about this?

      He has frequently teased the previous government about the poor working conditions offered to foreigners.

    • Pepe` says:

      And was her income declared as a regular worker, and NI paid up by employer?

  20. John Higgins says:

    Hasn’t Dr. Muscat realised that this Minister is making a mockery of his post. Doesn’t the PM feel embarrassed by these actions?

    • Min Jaf says:

      Both Joseph Muscat and Manuel Mallia are Labour Party, so anything goes. Embarrassment is alien to the PL.

    • observer says:

      The prime minister doesn’t even realize that Manwel is making a mockery not only of his post but, above all, of him.

      Ma kontx naghmlu daqshekk imbecilli, Joseph.

  21. Ghar u Kasa says:

    That billboard opposite San Anton Garden entrance came to mind: LABOUR – PRO BUSINESS, it read.

    Tell that to the catering companies.

    But Manuel Mallia missed a trick there. He could have had the police save even more money by popping down the road from the Floriana Depot kitchens to simmer their dishes on the eternal flame at the Cenotaph.

  22. Joe Micallef says:

    In the spirit of “Safe for Business”.

    Joseph Muscat leases his own car to the Government – dedicated to car leasing business owners who voted PL.

    Manuel Mallia orders police to serve as waiters – dedicated to all catering business owners and ITS students who voted PL.

  23. Catherine says:

    Isn’t his wife young and Romanian too?

    I just know it’s some type of unbelievable match.

    I’m not saying money is always the reason in these cases, of course, but in this case why else would an attractive young woman marry and remain with a man like that? Not only really, really ugly, but also really, really miserly.

    She must be isolated.

    I mean, I’d rather mate with pond life. A particularly attractive form of algae or something would be less slimy.

    You have to be a particular type of man to be happy to live such a life. Exploitation is a way of life, it seems.

    • Makjavel says:

      White slavery?

    • Grosvenor says:

      Mrs Mallia must have been desperate and deprived before she came to Malta from Romania to marry a man almost old enough to be her grandfather, who is so notoriously stingy and so very, very physically repulsive.

      She must be used to living in desperation and deprivation to cope with living in these circumstances, having to send to the fountain for water and with no food in the house.

      Judging by her former servant’s account here, she must be stressed out and miserable.

      Now that she has had children with him, she is trapped and at his mercy. Poor woman.

  24. Gahan says:

    I am shocked but somehow not surprised. He’s the type who see’s €’s (Euro signs) in everything he does.

    When he saw the cost of a formal dinner for the Broadcasting Union representatives at a five-star hotel, he probably got his calculator out and thought that he can do one better for less.

    Who were the caterers this time? Did he harvest and staff the olives himself?

    Can you imagine the heads of RAI and BBC together with France’s national TV being served by dilettantes?Would they come back with their families?

    • Fido says:

      Probably he might argue that since the way he organised the event he avoided a considerable expense to the national coffers, he should be personally be paid a “decent” slightly lower amount and the state would still be making a saving.

      After all this is nothing new; Joseph did the same thing in lieu of using the offical car.

      • ACD says:

        Not quite. Muscat outclasses Mallia because he’s making a profit off his old used car.

        In fact, Muscat will make more money off his car over next 5 years than it’s actually worth now.

  25. I for I, tut for tut says:

    Tal-biza’ Jew ahjar tal-wahx. All this could give ideas for a new novel by Anton Grasso.

  26. Dwayne says:

    Why not enquire with associates and ex-associates at Mallia’s firm on their conditions of employment?

    I’ve heard a couple of pretty interesting stories. You could start off with a couple of questions addressed to Ramona Frendo.

  27. Gahan says:

    Can the police or some government entity (Agenzija Appogg) investigate the conditions in which Mallia’s family are living? I am worried mostly about his twins.

  28. george grech says:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94BgJn5MSCU

    Dan me jissejjahx xoghol prekarju, sur Zarb? Meta ha tohrogha l-istqarrija ta’ kundanna jekk dan li qed tghid din ir-Rumena huwa minnu?

  29. Zelig says:

    Why do I get the nagging feeling that Mrs Mallia might be clinically depressed?

  30. Taghna Lkoll says:

    Should the Secret Service look into this flagrant abuse by a Minister of state? Could there be more to all this?

  31. k spiteri says:

    in love they say ‘don’t know what you’ve got till its gone’, we can translate that to our political scenario , well done ‘poplu’.

  32. Jozef says:

    Honestly, this isn’t something which can be ignored by the press.

  33. Bubu says:

    If all this is true, this man is pure evil.

  34. Felix says:

    What’s the police hotline for pizza delivery?

  35. sammy says:

    Someone needs to shake Ramona and remind her she is a communications officer.

    SO she needs to reply, it is HER duty to do so.

    And while we are at it, a minister’s PA or whatever she is needs to get some lessons in style and behaviour.

  36. aidan says:

    The GWU is just a corner away from the Mallia household. Perhaps they should pop in and check on the employment conditions there.

  37. zunzana says:

    Dan il-bniedem mhux jirrizenja biss imissu, izda lanqas juri wiccu quddiem in-nies.

    Izda l-aqwa li qieghed mal-partit tal-haddiema, ghax ihobb il-haddiem.

    Imnalla ma thajjarx johrog mal-Partit Nazzjonalista ghax kien iwaqqalna wiccna l-art.

    Din l-istorja tfakkarni fil-karattru ta’ Ebenezer Scrooge fil-ktieb ‘A Christmas Carol’. Possibli ghad fadal nies bhal dawn.

  38. Aunt Hetty says:

    My God. This is ghastly. Should not the Social Services investigate such allegations and ensure that the young children are being brought up in clean, healthy and safe environment.

    Slavery in Malta was abolished with the advent of Napoleon Bonaparte, Mr Minister.

  39. matt says:

    He is a national embarrassment.

    He has the mentally of a control freak. He wants to have absolute control of the police, armed forces, all branches of law reinforcement, the press and secret service in the interest of national security.

    My hunch is that the MLP is planning to turn the government into one-party state ala North Korea. When he has harnessed all the necessary control he will go after the PN heads.

    I see the handwriting on the wall. Some democracy.

  40. Tinu says:

    The Mallia household sounds like something out of Dickens.

  41. Tracy says:

    Living in a progressive household in Malta, with Manuel Mallia as paymaster, was much much worse than living in Romania. That says it all.

  42. Tracy says:

    Bniedem li ghamel success fil-karriera tieghu bhala avukat difensur tal-kriminali, u issa ministru fil-kabinett, zgur li kien kapaci jzomm u jghajjex lil din is-seftura li kellu f’livell dicenti.

    Wahedha tohrog li dan il-bniedem tant hu kattiv di natura u tant wera’ hdura maghha li stmaha bl-aktar mezz inuman.

  43. Grosvenor says:

    “the Mainguard fountain (the old one in the wall), they brought out the jerry-cans, filled them, put them back in the pushchairs, covered them with a cloth and walked back to the Mallia house overlooking Hastings garden.”

    The old one was pretty dirty. Fountain water usually is. I hope, for their own sake, they were not made to drink it, cook or wash with it.

    [Daphne – The Romanian girl has told us the purpose for which she brought that water to the house, Grosvenor: for the children’s baths and to wash clothes.]

  44. Paul Bonnici says:

    If he keeps no food at home, how come he is so obese?

    Maybe eating cheap unhealthy fattening food, such as pasitzzi, or gets free meals in restaurants paid by owners or friends.

    [Daphne – He is feasted and feted by favour-seekers.]

  45. Conservative says:

    L-Gharix was pretty bad. This is pretty incredible.

    Where is that beacon of culture, Kenneth Zammit Tabona, now?

    No doubt with the Parliamentary Secretary for Culture, and assorted high society, having a fenkata at il-Buskett. The epitome of the local culture.

  46. Village says:

    Ja qammiel, xhieh u bla kuxxenza.

    Imbasta ohxon daqs iljunfant tar-razza dwarf, imbaghad jittrata n-nisa f’daru ta’ mejjet bil-guh.

  47. pazzo says:

    I have a sense of deja vu. I was 18 in the 1970s and remember very well Wilfred Cardona, Nardu Debono and all other atrocities.

    Prepare for taz-znazen, l-SMU u l-anti riot squads. Where is that chicken Franco?

  48. Socrates says:

    Mastru Qamel.

  49. Jozef says:

    Ok.

    Romanian immigrants engaged to work under shady conditions, claims by same to possible psychological abuse only when they’re safely away from this country.

    It’s not certain under what circumstances and against what basic needs two minors are being raised.

    Who are we to conclude the water taken from the fountain’s being used for washing only?

    The master of the house drives around in a Porsche, albeit the junior model, but his household servants are sent to the public fountain for water.

    What else has to happen before anyone takes notice of this familiar state of affairs?

    Perhaps there lies the reason why he preferred surrounding himself with Romanian women, far younger than himself and vulnerable. No cliches, just well documented facts.

    I can’t believe we’re discussing a minister of state.

  50. yana says:

    Manuel Mallia is trying to compete with Dom Mintoff in the ‘renju tal-qamel’ stakes.

  51. Stephen Borg Fiteni says:

    I don’t understand, why would the Minister send his housewife to go for water when he can easily afford it, and why would the housewife be bothered enough by this to go back to Romania?

    More importantly, how can there not be water and food in the house?

    [Daphne – I admire your innocence. You do not understand the nature of spectacular stinginess, which is not rational but pathological. Dom Mintoff was rolling in money, but Mrs Mintoff lived, literally, off the kindness of friends, who gave her clothes, money and even food.

    The housewife in this equation is Mrs Mallia. We are speaking here not of a housewife but of a household servant.

    Miserly people will not spend money on water when they can get it free at a public fountain. You will ask yourself – but doesn’t he spend money on servants? Yes, I told you – stinginess is irrational. You really do get people who spend thousands on Faberge eggs, but then buy their real eggs at Lidl.

    It is more than possible for there to be no food in a house. Lots of people live like that – it’s a form of control, by the husband over the wife. I am not saying that this is what happened here. I am just explaining to you that it happens often. It is one of the most common forms of domestic abuse, as social workers will tell you. The water supply can be turned off at the mains in any house, and turned on again as required.]

    • Bubu says:

      That is very true, Daphne. I know personally of at least one case where the husband would manually turn on the water mains just enough for the wife and kids to take a quick wash, but only on his turn.

      He also kept the only phone in the house under lock and key and disallowed use of the TV, except under his own terms and usually only bought enough food to satisfy himself, forcing his wife into menial jobs in order to feed herself and her two kids.

      What goes around comes around however, at least in this case.

      When a life insurance policy of his matured, his wife adamantly refused to sign the papers, depriving him of the payout. Meagre consolation for a lifetime of hardship, but I’m sure the look in his face was priceless.

    • Stephen Borg Fiteni says:

      That is just sick. It’s sad how many people with severe psychological problems (take serial killers) are considered normal by their peers who are unaware of them.

      • ACD says:

        It gets worse. This guy was voted in over normal people despite it being common knowledge that he steals water from public fountains.

        Think about it.

        It’s *that* “weird”.

  52. Francis Saliba MD says:

    Why do I have a gut feeling that no one is investigating, or will ever investigate, this person (whom I will not name), and who is practising this type of “precarious employment”?

  53. Giraffa says:

    This man is a dangerous person – expect his backlash after these leaks.

    The fact that he has created the new Secret Service in his image is truly frightening.

    The PN should not relent and must insist on uncovering the truth, particularly whether the Romanians were legally employed and whether their working conditions fall under precarious work, which has become the GWU’s battle horse.

  54. thehobbit says:

    Talk about xoghol prekarju.

  55. Ronnie says:

    So she somehow survived Ceausescu but not Mallia.

    [Daphne – She may be too young to have lived contemporaneously with Ceaucescu.]

  56. bob-a-job says:

    Incidentally, from a legal point of view, is helping one’s self to water from a public fountain equivalent to theft of public water or is it comparable to imbibing water from a drinking fountain?

    When one thinks about it, It’s only taken us 100 days to realise we’ve been screwed good ‘n proper.

    • Conservative says:

      We had enough warning, bob-a-job.

      We were warned it would be a “gas down ghal gol-hajt”. We were warned all the old Adams family from Mintoff’s days were in the “muvument ta’ Gowzef”. We were warned that they were an assorted bunch of misfits.

      I knew the country was “screwed good ‘n proper” about a year ago, when the ugly head of the Labour ghost of misery past reared its head up.

      • bob-a-job says:

        Actually I meant to write screwged not screwed which is the more appropriate word.

        This means the unpleasant realization that, when assembling a purchased product, the painful discovery that the manufacturer has not included enough screws, bolts, nuts, etc. to complete the assembly. The word is derived from the character of Scrooge depicted in Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol”.

  57. Alexander Ball says:

    Blimey, I thought Alfred Sant said we were going to be swamped with Sicilian hairdressers not Romanian charladies.

  58. Alexander Ball says:

    By the way, why don’t NET run a daily ‘water-run’ feature, filming the servant filling the cans?

  59. H.P. Baxxter says:

    Got my Romanian agents to translate the last message.

    “Emanuel Mallia is a thief and a liar. I was his last nanny. I could not take it any longer.”

  60. La Redoute says:

    Codruta is Mrs Mallia’s real last name.

  61. Maggie says:

    Tell me that you u have nothing to write about. This is hilarious. Can u imagine dr Mallia having a shower from water carried in Jerry cans. Give us another version perhaps we believe it.

    [Daphne – I suspect he doesn’t shower at all, Maggie. But yes, it’s perfectly true. There are several eyewitnesses to the Mallia household servants filling up jerry-cans at the Mainguard fountain. Don’t believe it if you don’t want to. You are in extensive company. Some people actually believe the Jewish Holocaust never happened; others that the Americans brought down their own Twin Towers.]

  62. matt says:

    Why is the PN mysteriously quiet on this issue. Why is Simon so timid to respond on Mallia’s outright control on law enforcement?

    The PN should put their brakes down now before it is too late.

  63. Dickens says:

    Dan nghidlu mard tal-mohh jien! Dan il-qammiel, mejjet bil-guh, kemm ghandu zmien anyway?

    Nahseb li ghandu xi bidu ta’ senile dementia.

    • John III says:

      Bhal dak, issiblu buqar minn dawk tal-hgieg, li kienu juzaw biex ifaddlu fih. Fil-kaz tieghu ifaddal il-flus imgemmghin mill-iffrankar ta’ l-ilma.

  64. Basla says:

    Yesterday I was at a wedding and everybody was passing remarks about Mallia and Muscat. Even the Laburisti are disgusted with this. Now it’s more more convincing that he did it with his family so why not with the policemen. He is a disgrace.

  65. Qammiel Iehor says:

    Bl-istess mod allura, inkun qieghed nikser il-ligi jekk “niddobba” ftit dawl mil-lampa tat-triq li ghandi mwahhla mad-dar ? Jidhirli jien li l-ilma tal-funtana huwa rizorsa pubblika daqs kemm huwa d-dawl tat-triq.

  66. Weird no ? says:

    We have contacts with journalists in Romania if anyone wishes to help us get news from the horse’s mouth live.

  67. Tida says:

    Kwazi nofs il lejl u fettilli niftah il-kompjuter u rajt dan il-kumment u inhossni mnixxfa!

    Possibbli li dan li nkiteb huwa veru?

    Lanqas meta kont vera qed immiss il-qieh bir-ragel marid u zewgti tfal ma kont f’din is-sitwazzjoni tal-biza.

    Mela lilna f’hix ha jgibna li m’ahnix demmu?

  68. Critical says:

    Any updates re this story? Don’t wish this to fall by the wayside, given all the other gaffes that have emerged in the meantime.

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