Prime Minister’s aide in yet another assault on Giovanni Bonello

They were so happy to have a go at adding his scalp to their fetid collection back in March 2013, by appointing him to head the Justice Reform Commission whose recommendations they have proceeded to ignore.

But when Giovanni Bonello joined the national demonstration against corruption, in Valletta last spring, and was photographed there, the government’s tools and the Prime Minister’s aides reclassified him as an enemy of the state and have rounded on him with their standard hdura.

Here is the latest, which is all the more disgraceful because it was posted from the Office of the Prime Minister.

I have left the following comment beneath that post.

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Ordinarily, I feel absolutely no urge to respond to your comments, however stupid, uncouth, untrue and slanderous they might be. But when they involve lies and innuendos that have a direct and slanderous impact on third parties, I am left with no choice but to do so.

No, it was not Giovanni Bonello who spoke to me about Yana Mintoff’s relationship with Gheorghe Popa. In the 25 years that I have known Judge Bonello, he has always been the epitome of discretion – professional discretion, and discretion based on friendship.

He has certainly never spoken to me about anything even remotely connected with either of Dom Mintoff’s daughters or the Mintoff family in general. It is not a subject we have ever discussed.

Perhaps you operate in a world in which personal loyalty and integrity are unknown. The mistake you make is to think that your distasteful world is shared by everyone else.

And might I offer a word of advice? It is not as though people don’t know the facts of what occurred in Yana Mintoff’s household by now and that her boyfriend ended up in intensive care with serious stab wounds, while she was discharged there and then.

So don’t try to cover up by calling it a ‘domestic accident’, because it was not an accident and the fact that it occurs between the four walls of a home does not make it ‘domestic’. This is a very serious matter, and you would do well to treat it as such. The person involved is not a private citizen but a politician.