What scum – and by this I mean not just the Police Commissioner but also Malta Today, which appears delighted to see justice undone
“The jolly nice Joseph government has just made my wife’s daddy Dennis Dowling a member of the Valletta and Floriana Rehablitation Committee, because selling shirts and trousers has taught him so much about the rehabilitation of historic capital cities.”
Malta Today reports:
In a statement, the police said disciplinary or criminal action will be taken as recommended by the Police Board. The Police Commissioner was in the process of seeking the Attorney General’s advice as to whether criminal action should be taken as well.
The case will be taken before the Permanent Disciplinary Board within the Ministry for Home Affairs.
“This shortcoming is being considered as a grievous one which could also lead to the dismissal of an official from the Police Corps,” the Police Corps said in a statement.
It also said said the Police Commissioner had the power to suspend the official from his duties as soon as he was notified of the charges.
I remind you that the police officer they are talking about is the one WHO ARRAIGNED THE TRUE CULPRIT WHEN HIS COLLEAGUES HAD ARRAIGNED AN INNOCENT MAN ON SPURIOUS GROUNDS.
Now they are threatening him with:
1. prosecution in the Criminal Court;
2. disciplinary proceedings by the permanent disciplinary board at Manuel Mallia’s ministry (where he will get a very fair hearing);
3. dismissal from the police force;
4. immediate suspension pending all of this.
And they have described his “shortcoming” – what shortcoming – as “grievous”. Clearly, they have language problems as well as problems of morality, ethics and the law. It’s either a shortcoming or it’s grievous. It can’t be both.
I repeat: scum. In tomorrow’s rant-and-rave column in his lavatory-roll newspaper which Roger de Giorgio bankrolls to feed his ego, Saviour Balzan might wish to tell us how he feels about Transport Minister Joe Mizzi’s appointment of his (Balzan’s) father-in-law Dennis Dowling to the Valletta and Floriana Rehabilitation Committee.
Dowling sells men’s trousers and shirts from a hole in the wall next door to the Law Courts. He knows jack about rehabilitation, aesthetics, restoration or the rest.
Gosh, Saviour, aren’t you cross about this blatant disregard for merit? Of course not. L-aqwa li tieghek ilkoll, ja carlatan li int.
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This frame up is really a bad sign of things to come. Removing one of the only police officers who has the balls to stand up to serious criminals (see track record) will give them free rein.
No one will be safe. Expect more of the same, and worse as things spiral out of control.
‘Who let the dogs out?’
I’ve called myself Natalie 2 as there seems to be another Natalie (with whose comments I usually agree, incidentally).
Apart from sharing Daphne’s view re Balzan, this is a hideous situation with reverberations from the past. I hope the opposition will act responsibly and effectively because the repercussions are very grave indeed; and this is an understatement.
It’s the day of the jackals.
Elton Taliana – the scapegoat.
I hear Dennis Dowling is insisting on a meeting with Renzo Piano.
It appears he has a few suggestions for him, based on his vast experience of life and culture in the capital city.
After all, this highly successful businessman who started off with a little shop in Valletta can boast that, just 40 years later, he is now the proud owner of…you’ve guessed it…a little shop in Valletta.
U halluna, ja qabda mnejjjkin.
I don’t have an opinion about Elton Taliana – positive or negative as that may be. He may be a hero or a criminal, for what it’s worth.
But reading through the police report, the words ‘fishy’ and ‘biased’ spring to mind.
I thought the report was about focussing on ‘why’ the wrong person was arraigned and, on ‘how’ the same ended up in prison.
This it tries feebly to do in the last of the first six pages of the report. The rest of the report (another seven pages) concentrates on what to me seems an ancillary item – Taliana’s knowledge of the injustice done.
But then, reading “Din il-grajja hadet in-nar meta il-Pulizjia ressqet persuna ohra”, you get the impression that the investigation’s real focus was the cause of the media flare-up which exposed the police botch-up, rather than finding out what went wrong. The report actually tries to justify the incompetence of the police in arraigning the wrong man.
Contrary to what I thought, this investigation was NOT about why an innocent person was held in prison and facing prosecution without evidence.
It was why Elton Taliana caught the real culprit and arraigned him, showing up the incompetence (abuse?) of those who held and arraigned an innocent young man. In doing this, Taliana inadvertently brought that police incompetence/abuse to the attention of the public and the media, so according to this dictatorship logic, he must be punished for embarrassing the police by doing the right thing and showing them up.
Ostensibly, his ‘crime’ is that he did not inform his colleagues that he had got the right man. But here’s the rub: if he had informed them, what would they have done about it? Would they have let the innocent man go and prosecuted the culprit, or would they have let the culprit go and continued with the prosecution of the innocent man so as to conceal their mistake (abuse?).
Taliana insists that his only obligation was to inform the duty magistrate, and that is what he did. He may have actually understood that the only way to get this sorted was specifically to go through the rule of the law and the superior authority of the magistrate.
There is a significant chance that had Taliana not been involved in the matter, Borg would still be behind bars. And there would have been no investigation, nothing in the media, and no embarrassment to the Police.
No one would have known how the Police have a habit of arresting people on dubious tipoffs by ‘informers’ and circumstantial evidence and unclear videos.
And then we want a Whistleblower Act. As if it will make any difference. Worse, it might even be used to frame other innocent people by getting liars and vindictive persons to ‘whistleblow’ on them in return for a reward, while being protected.
Dowling il-qerried. L-anqas bicca negozju ta’ solt u nofs mhu kapaci jmexxi, ahseb u ara l-Belt.
This stems from the perennial animosity that exists between the district police and the CID.
He’s told to stop investigating because the CID have outpaced him and solved the case, so the tip-off hands him an I’ll-show-you opportunity and he proceeds to investigate and charge a second man with the same crime without informing anyone.
‘That should ruffle their feathers,’ he must have thought. ‘And I’ll get a star.’
Very childlike. And to think it’s all about the ego…
[Daphne – You let yourself down, Kevin. What it really stems from is police abuse and corruption, the inability of the Nationalist government to control it, and the propensity of the Labour government to collaborate with it for its own ends and to not distinguish between the two separate powers. As a former police officer yourself, you should know that.]
I have no sides in this, Daphne, and my opinion of those who charged an innocent person is predictably that they should pay for being knob-heads.
But there is no malicious intent in being a knob-head. They should face civil consequences for their actions, apart from being transferred to a more appropriate section.
Taliana, on the other hand, acted in pique and with malice in a very childlike manner. It is not the way a police officer should act and if you don’t see this it’s because you’ve lost sight of the ball while tackling the players.
[Daphne – I disagree with you, Kevin. One of the ‘knob-heads’ is the same CID officer who turned up at my gate at 9.30pm on the eve of polling day, accompanied by an officer from the Homicide Squad, armed with an arrest warrant, ordering me to go with them to Police Headquarters for interrogation and to make a statement. As you know, that arrest warrant gave them the right to hold me for 48 hours. They had no embarrassment or sense of irony in informing me that my crime was uploading a video mocking the way Joseph Muscat walks, earlier that afternoon. Is that the act of a knob-head? No, it’s the act of somebody who…well, never mind.]
Yes, Daphne, but you’re not being objective. I would advise you to take four deep breaths and try to understand the simple points I’m trying to get through.
[Daphne – Is that how you speak to Sharon? Or is that the way you speak to all women? I advise you to take four deep breaths and try to understand the simple point that you’re dealing here with somebody able to grasp highly complex issues.]
Oh, gaaawd! Now I see where your problem lies. No wonder they love to hate you and you love it so much.
[Daphne – My problem, Kevin, lies in the fact that I don’t suffer fools gladly or bat my eyelashes, and have long since taken the attitude that those who don’t like it can lump it. You can do the same.]
Well then next time you inform me that ‘I’m letting myself down’ make sure you explain why without leaping off on a tangent.
If what you wrote is indeed relevant to the case under scrutiny, then please explain what you know that we don’t. Seriously, what is the technical connection of the fact that one of the knob-heads in this case holds something against you?
Can you spell it out?
[Daphne – I say you are letting yourself down because I suspect that much of the time your view of matters is roughly similar to mine, which is why you are always here. But you don’t have the intellectual honesty or the balls to say so. Your comments about political issues tend to be either oblique or non-committal, which is odd for somebody whose wife and her entire family campaign openly and ferociously for the Labour Party and spend their time dangling from the coat-tails of Labour politicians and apparatchiks.
I’ll spell it out, as requested. Turning up at my home at 9.30pm, accompanied by a senior officer of the Homicide Squad, armed with an arrest warrant signed by a magistrate and giving him the power to hold me at the Police HQ for 48 hours, because I uploaded a political video on the eve of polling day, is not the action of a knob-head. It is the action of somebody able and willing to do it. Failure to fully grasp the gravity of this abuse is not evidence of a knob-head but evidence of somebody who has become inured to abuse and who actually thinks it legitimate.]
Kevin’s point is that the two CID officers did a bad job unintentionally.
I don’t know why he prefers to call them knob heads.
I for one find it hard to believe that their intention wasn’t malicious, when we know from the newspapers that they convinced a totally innocent poor (judging by what he was wearing) young man that if he admits to the crime of armed robbery he would get a light sentence.
What they did not tell him was that they did not care about his presumed innocence and were more concerned about being patted on the back.
I hope they learn the basic rights of the accused at the police academy.
After following the (mis)-reporting on Inspector Taliana, like many people I smelled that there’s more to come.
We’ve seen the pattern already on how the police worked together with the Labour-leaning media against the security firm in charge of The Isle of MTV concert.
On this occasion the security head who stopped someone from entering the VIP area without a tag/permit was arrested and investigated. Wasn’t that his duty?
The same applies to the boxer, Scott Dixon, who organised a match at Floriana with all the necessary police permits. His permits were withdrawn on the eleventh hour with great financial losses for him. He continues to be targetted.
His crime? Silvio Scerri hates his guts because Dixon is the man for whom Scerri’s girlfriend left him.
Probably the CID did not inform Taliana that they got Daryl Borg and Taliana did the same when he got the real wrong-doer.
On that one they would be equally ‘blamed’. But the ‘knob heads’ bullied an innocent man to try to get him to admit to a crime he did not commit and held him on remand, while Taliana got the culprit together with evidence: the balaclava and the (toy) pistol. On this one, Taliana wins hands down.
Did the level of trust in our police force increase with these episodes? If I were an officer I would turn a blind eye when something similar happens, so as not to suffer the fate that Taliana is suffering now and has yet to suffer still. It seems that’s the message from above: be like the three monkeys, and hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing.
I’ll close this for you, Daphne.
Do I think they were too hard on him? Yes.
Do I think they were lenient on them? Yes.
Do I think there’s political bias involved? I don’t know. Perhaps there is, but then it must have escaped Judge Depasquale.
Does what I said about knob-heads, pique and malice still stand? Indeed it does.
Pragmatic, as always Kev.
I get the impression Taliana may have suspected that if he spoke to his ‘buddies’ first, nothing would have come out of it.
And Darryl Luke Borg, an innocent man, would have remained in prison.
Perhaps Taliana knew what he was letting himself into and forged ahead?
Is it possible to have some sense of principle, or is the omerta’ implied by your writing to prevail?
Otherwise, why would Mallia insist on showing his disappointment at Jason’s conference yesterday, it smacks of saving face.
Something similar’s happening with the MTV incident, this time it’s John Muscat who’s being rubbished, the commissioner objectively fabricating stories to the number of versions given by Muscat.
And Silvio Scerri’s out of the limelight.
Missing the wood for trees as usual, Kev. This isn’t about Elton Taliana. It’s about the deliberate exploitation of power and position for personal ends.
Talk about ‘conspiracy theories’, you lot, really!
If the knob-head (excuse my unfortunate choice of term, but we’ll stick to it for clarity) is corrupt, as you claim, that does not necessarily mean he intentionally charged an innocent man in court. That is not how corruption usually works, anyway.
Yours is the layman’s view: They punished the officer who charged the right person instead of the other way round. Easy.
But then you add spice to it: one of those charging the innocent man did so intentionally. Ah-ha!
So did both officers conspire to charge the wrong man? Why would they do that? To look good? Do you know anything I don’t?
To me, there is a far simpler explanation. Taliana wanted to create a little whirlwind and it backfired because he underestimated the people he was dealing with and they threw the book at him for playing these games.
As for my being oblique, Daphne, there are different reasons, one being that most issues you deal with are either tabloidish or plain boring. I like the satirical aspect, but not much else.
When it comes to EU and global politics, which are becoming more important to us by the day, I usually find that to explain one thing in detail I’d need to explain ten other details, down to your ridiculously superficial paradigm that’s been conditioned solely by the long-discredited corporate media.
I come here to have a break from my mainly-online work. I mainly come here to tease and provoke. Sorry about that.
[Daphne _ Forgive me if I can’t take you seriously. You see a giant conspiracy theory surrounding the destruction of the World Trade Centre twin towers in Manhattan in 2001 (“the Americans did it to themselves to have a reason to start a war on terrorism”) but no conspiracy to abuse in case under review. Give yourself a break, Kevin.]
Well one of us must be wrong, then, Daphne.
Unlike you, I’m far from perfect, but one thing I’m endowed with is a perfectly rational mind – so rational it took me well over three years of digging to finally come to terms with the facts of global politics and your being pulled by the nose in such an expertly manner. I could even admire the people behind these huge – and I mean HUGE – scams hiding behind layer upon layer of BIG lies. And so in-your-face, too! So close you cannot see them.
What you certainly cannot say about me is that I don’t know what admissible evidence is, or that I’m not aware of what constitutes large-scale fraud.
[Daphne – Nobody with a perfectly rational mind would have married Sharon Ellul or into a really horrible family like that, but would have steered well clear. And yes, you asked for it.]
And, by the way, the “Americans didn’t do it themselves” you fool, but the people pulling the strings might let you know how it was done.
You have such a narrow view of ‘conspiracy theory’ itself you cannot imagine how ridiculous I feel trying to explain these things to you.
One thing you need to keep in mind, however: I know what you see and how you see it. It is you who hasn’t the slightest clue of how it works, and what, for that matter.
A sad case, really… that you should think you know it all when you are in fact, like most politicians and mainstream journos, a gullible buffoon.
[Daphne – I know the Americans didn’t do it themselves, Kevin. Oh, and do calm down. Stroke a cat or something.]
So let’s be practical, Kevin. Can you tell us how a police officer should behave if he finds out that an innocent man has been held on remand 36 hours and fifty minutes already when he is told/ordered to stop investigating the case?
Keep in mind that the officer is serving the honest citizen.
Was there a way for the force to cover up this blunder, without punishing further the innocent Mr Borg, if Taliana informed his superiors?
What’s your take about the go-between, Charles Iz-Zambi, who was present at the meeting between Mr Borg and Silvio Scerri?
Do you believe Mr Borg needed an ex-convict to fix a meeting with Mr Scerri when he knew he would be appearing before the police board?
If they are knob heads – should they be in the CID? Imagine knob heads making it to the CIA or the FBI, or even the KGB.
Kev, correct me if I am wrong, but was the Police Board not told to investigate why an innocent person was accused.
I would have throught that trying to see why the knob-heads were at fault would have been the main thrust of the investigation. I don’t know, like looking at who the tip came from, could that person be trusted, etc.
Blaming the inspector who actually caught the crook should not have been the central point of the investigation. and if they did look into his action, then they should also have looked into the magistrates actions. After all we are only talking about 50 mins on the part of Taliana and a significant number of hours on the part of the knob-heads
Ghoxrin Punt, concerning the board’s brief, it seems to only relate to Taliana’s actions. This is strategically and politically unwise, since although his case is serious inasmuch as malicious intent is concerned (going against the institutional grain, to boot), the blunder perpetrated by the two CID officers, even if we assume them to be lacking in malicious intent, has had far more serious consequences than Taliana’s actions (the extra hours Borg spent in prison as a result of Taliana’s silence are inconsequential in comparison).
Unlike Daphne, I am not arguing the case from a political perspective. But surely, to do that, one first needs to acknowledge that Taliana’s actions were undignified and that he deserved what was coming. I would expect the commissioner to take the necessary steps in regard to the two CID officers, too.
[Daphne – “I am not arguing the case from a political perspective”, says the husband of a Labour candidate and the brother-in-law of an entire posse of diehard Labour fixers, one of whom was a police officer and is using his connections in the police force.]
My wife is NOT a PL candidate. She runs a European political party that is at odds with the European party with which the PL is affiliated.
[Daphne – My, how very unstable. She most certainly was a Labour candidate, in the EP elections.]
I work with yet another Eurosceptic party at European level.
[Daphne – I just adore the irony. Eurosceptics who milk the European Union set-up for a living.]
As for partisan politics, that is the staple of Lilliputians like you, Daphne. It’s what saves you from having to argue a point rationally and objectively.
[Daphne – Lilliputians, Kevin, are people who take their context with them wherever they go, and who, wherever they go, retain their village hamalla mentality. I don’t know about you, but I certainly know about your wife: lives and works in Belgium but in Malta, can’t and won’t wrench herself out of the Andy and Vince/Natius Ola/Jaff and Karrrmennn social circle of tota hamalli from hell. So please, don’t give me Lilliputians.]
Gahan, I’ll close this by answering your questions, I had missed.
Question 1: “Can you tell us how a police officer should behave if he finds out that an innocent man has been held on remand 36 hours and fifty minutes already when he is told/ordered to stop investigating the case?”
Answer: Just pick up the phone and inform his direct superior (and he could have also called his erring colleagues at the CID).
Q. “Keep in mind that the officer is serving the honest citizen. Was there a way for the force to cover up this blunder, without punishing further the innocent Mr Borg, if Taliana informed his superiors?”
A. I cannot imagine a way to cover up this blunder without committing another blunder. How would they do that? ‘Issa mur id-dar, hi, u tghid lil hadd, ta…’ That would not work would it?
Q. “What’s your take about the go-between, Charles Iz-Zambi, who was present at the meeting between Mr Borg and Silvio Scerri?”
A. Froga papali. Iz-Zambi’s involvement is clearly untenable.
Q. “Do you believe Mr Borg needed an ex-convict to fix a meeting with Mr Scerri when he knew he would be appearing before the police board?”
A. No, don’t be silly. All Borg needed was the truth that sets him free, and thanks to Inspector Taliana it did emerge.
I like Kevin’s no-beating-round-the-bush/straight answers.
“I just adore the irony. Eurosceptics who milk the European Union set-up for a living.
The irony you see derives solely from your Pollyanna mentality, Daphne. The EU is our new country, forced down our throat by that same mentality. If you think we are not effective in what we do, think again. This is political activism at the highest possible levels. No ego is involved in our work. Just plain satisfaction when we see good results. Sorry I can’t share. I generally avoid doing that with gossipmongers and tarts.
And what about those commenting on the Times of Malta led by that man Privitera.
Tal-biki u tal-biza u dan ghadu l-bidu.
This is going to be worse than the 70s.
In today’s The Sunday Times:
Inspector Elton Taliana was tipped off about the true identity of the person who committed the hold up on The Convenience Shop in Birkirkara almost 36 hours after Darryl Luke Borg, 27, had been wrongfully charged and remanded in custody.
What would have happened if instead of charging the man in court (as he was legally bound to do) the inspector had instead informed his superiors, Dr Zammit Maempel asked rhetorically?
“Would he have reduced the two days and 50 minutes Mr Borg spent in prison by a minute or two or would he have prolonged his stay?” he asked, pointing out that the courts alone had the power to have the man released.
It is more than obvious that there is no love lost between the parties involved in this blunder, but the main reason we employ the police is to catch the real culprits and help free innocent people.
With this kind of attitude by the police hierarchy and the minister for the police, the message is that next time, inspectors like Taliana should have looked the other way and let the innocent Darryl Luke Borg go through hell in court and possibly rot in prison.
I suspect that there might well have been a coverup, to avoid this whole embarrassment, if Taliana informed his superiors. Taliana can be called a “whistle blower” if you like.
The important question is, was justice served?
Four square behind Inspector Taliana. Accusers not known to be credible. Shame on them. Taking country to the dogs, once again.
Four square and ‘more’ behind Inspector Taliana. By ‘more’ I mean that since the P.N. made an issue of the matter, and rightly so, it has to pronounce itself and set everybody’s mind at rest and in particular that of Inspector Taliana that justice will be done in his regard at the opportune moment. That’s for starters.
Agreed. The alternative coalesces.
Does Dennis Dowling sell turn-coats at his menswear shop?
Both Malta Today and L-Orizzont claim to be independent newspapers.
Inspector Taliana did the best thing he could have done. He did what was right and correct.
He gets punished for arraigning the real criminal. His colleagues, who arraigned an innocent man with no evidence, get off free.
This is nothing new. We have seen these things in the past.
Malta Taghna lkoll. Se jaghmel lil Malta l-paljazza tagghom.
How I admire you, Daphne! U veru dan Saviour huwa carlatan. Pinnur u jaghmel dak li jaqbilu f’dak il-hin.
Jien Belti u ma nafx x’ghamel dan Dowling ghall-Belt. Ghalija isem biss ghandu u xejn izjed.
Xi tridu jaghmel ghal-Belt? Ipacpac u jqasqas fuq l-ghatba tal-hanut u jippassiggja f’Strada Irjali.
Qed nistenna minn hin ghall-iehor lil Ramona Frendo tkellimna ftit iehor fuq il-MERITOKRAZIJA.
Is it just me? These last few months a new wave of hatred (hdura u lanzit) and intolerance has emerged.
Is it pent-up rage for 25 years of relative calmness and progress?
Inspector Taliana is being made an example of.
Yes, you are quite right. This is the pent-up rage of years. I cannot understand the PL diehards’ mentality.
They won the elections with a landslide victory and they should be happy and on top of the world, but no, all they want is revenge.
Mhux ovvja. Mela dawk riedu xi hag’ohra.
Lanqas x’imiss ghada ma jafu, l-aqwa li jwahhluh lil xi hadd.
Ezatt kif poggieha Jozef. Mela dawk jafu xi jridu? Dawk qishom qeghdin fil-Kolosew u jridu biss jaraw id-demm.
So, according to the Police Board headed by a judge, and those who agree with their conclusions, the reputation of police officers who made a mistake, is more important than the release without any delay of the innocent man that they had arrested.
What chance on earth is there that a whistle-blower will dare to open his mouth if this means that the administration will be put in a bad light?
Elton Taliana is being used by this government as an example to his fellow officers of what will happen to them if they stand up to abuse within the force or try to do the right and proper thing.
This government spoke about whistleblowers. Then it does this.
Despicable.
Exactly. Comply, obey, shut up or else.
I honestly don’t know how somebody like Giovanni Bonello can associate himself with a government like this, or stay silent when abuse of this nature occurs.
How can he have taken this risk to his reputation and why did he allow these people to use that reputation for themselves, eroding it in the process?
Scum, even if democratically elected, remain scum all the same. Bad and stupid people elect other bad and stupid people. Whether the process is democratic or not is irrelevant in terms of the consequences, as Elton Taliana has discovered.
I had expressed this sentiment months ago, when Judge Bonello was appointed on the Justice Reform Commission.
Those who will associate themselves with this government will have their credibility and reputation impaired. Even if they try hard to act in an upright manner all the time, those they chose to work with and help will let them down.
Giovanni Bonello will hate me for saying this, but I have far too much respect for him to hold back. He has become the proverbial mejda tal-qubbajd, in true Maltese fashion.
I suppose he reckons he might as well milk the system for all it’s worth, seeing as he’s at the end of his career. But it ill befits him.
By accepting that Justice Reform position, Giovanni Bonello has allowed them to gag him and also to acquire his great, good name to bolster their poor credibility.
He is more than capable of doing the job, but I somehow don’t think they are at all interested in whether he does it or not. All they wanted was his name on board their bandwagon. Now that they have got that, they are not really interested in whether or what he delivers.
Justice reform? The first opportunity they have to deliver justice, they turn all principles upside down and deliver a frame-up instead.
Dak li kien rega’ bena Eddie Fenech Adami fit-tmeninijiet, id-demokrazija, ir-rikonciljazzjoni nazzjonali u s-serhan il-mohh fostna l-maltin, dan il-gvern ser ikissru fl-inqas zmien possibbli.
Ma ndumux ma nibdew niggieldu bl-ghajta ta’ XOGHOL, GUSTIZZJA, u LIBERTA’
When Pietru Pawl Busuttil was framed by the Labour government through the agency of the police, people spoke up for him publicly and took out advertisements in the press stating that they believe him to be innocent.
What are we going to do in this blatant case of gross injustice?
This is only the beginning. Let us remember the long struggle to bring back justice during the Mintoff era, how quickly we can lose the liberties we take for granted.
Hear. hear.
One word of advice to some of the people concerned – RESIGN after expressing your sorrow at the wrong you’re perpetrating.
The Nationalist Party’s silence is mindblowing. Jason Azzopardi has been left, literally, to cope alone.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-09-01/news/police-board-inquiry-a-travesty-of-justice-simon-busuttil-2474180608/
This is PN material. Fascinating how Muscat will unwittingly crystallise the ‘real’ PN.
Simon’s been accused of attacking ‘institutions’ by the PL.
Peter Paul Zammit per Grazia di Dio.
This is just a pathetic attempt at whitewashing a bungled frame-up.
The message is clear and spine-chilling.
Elton Taliana should have been given a ‘medal’ for his dedicated work and not the hassle they have thrown him in.
And what about Silvio Scerri? Can his meddling in the situation be clarified?
Inspector Taliana’s ‘crime’ is that he foiled an attempted frame-up, something not not new to Labour governments.