Malta court acquits businessman of car bomb murder of anti-corruption journalist
The jury cleared Yorgen Fenech by an 8-1 vote after eight hours of deliberation, leaving five others already convicted in the case.
- On Wednesday, a jury in Malta acquitted Yorgen Fenech of complicity to murder and criminal association in the 2017 car bomb killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
- Caruana Galizia was killed in Oct 2017 while investigating corruption linked to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's inner circle, whom she accused of holding offshore companies disclosed via the Panama Papers.
- Prosecutors secured convictions against George Degiorgio and Alfred Degiorgio, who each received 40 years in prison, while middleman Melvin Theuma was granted a presidential pardon in 2019 for his testimony.
- An independent 2021 inquiry concluded the Maltese state "has to bear responsibility" for the assassination, citing a culture of impunity emanating from the highest levels of government on the Mediterranean island.
- Caruana Galizia's death shocked Europe and the European Union, triggering massive protests that toppled Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, as Fenech remained the last of a half-dozen people charged in the plot.
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On Wednesday, a Maltese jury acquitted magnate Yorgen Fenech of the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed by a car bomb in 2017. He was accused of having commissioned the attack to stifle a compromising investigation.On Wednesday, a Maltese court acquitted magnate Yorgen Fenech, accused of orchestrating the brutal murder in 2017 of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, told her family in a press release.She deplo…
Malta businessman found not guilty in car bomb killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
Daphne Caruana Galizia's killing shocked Europe, led to protests that toppled a prime minister and exposed a culture of impunity in the European Union's smallest state.
Who had Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia murdered? This question remains unanswered even after almost nine years. Jury members freed an entrepreneur from the accusation that he was the mastermind of the attack.
Yorgen Fenech was accused of ordering the assassination of the journalist, killed by a car bomb in October 2017
Her sons stressed that the verdict deprived the journalist of the "justice she deserves"
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