Malta court acquits businessman of car bomb murder of anti-corruption journalist
The verdict leaves no one convicted of masterminding the 2017 car bombing, after prosecutors said Fenech could face life in prison.
- 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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A Maltese court has acquitted businessman Yorgen Fenech of charges of complicity in the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. After eight hours of deliberation, the jury found him not guilty by eight votes to one, meaning he will not face a life sentence.
Almost nine years after the murder of Malta's best-known journalist, the clients remain undisturbed, and the "climate of impunity" remains.
The evidence presented by the prosecution is not sufficient to condemn the tycoon Yorgen Fenech
A Maltese court has acquitted tycoon Yorgen Fenech of charges of orchestrating the car bomb murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, sparking outrage from her family and media freedom advocates, Euronews reports. The wealthy businessman was accused of orchestrating the 2017 murder of 53-year-old Caruana Galizia, who had […] The post Maltese tycoon’s acquittal in journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder sparks outrage appeared…
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