The echoes still resonate
It’s two weeks since Daphne Caruana Galizia’s horrible murder today and the echoes are still to be heard. As it should be, given the manner of the murder and the person who was murdered, and the probable reason for this.
The echoes can still be heard not just because people and groups previously inexistent have come up with some innovative ways of remembering the killing, such as camping at Castile, holding two well-attended meetings, etc.
Nor just because the assassination is still the most popular argument in political debate, in and out of Parliament, as witness yesterday’s political speeches.
Not just because, to our knowledge, no development has taken place in the investigations, even though we accept that such investigations need to take place beyond
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And not just because of the international reverberations of the murder. It is naïve to think such a murder would not cause questions to be asked at international for a where Malta is represented. It is definitely not a question of claiming that the international furore caused by Daphne’s death is the result of agitation by the PN’s three MEPs.
The echoes of Daphne’s murder still resonate because of the undisputed link between her murder and what she has written or was about to write. Find the link and you will find the murderer.
She did write about people, about quirks, about customs but mostly she wrote about and against abuse of power. Beyond all her posts on people which may have hurt their targets, she was a one-person army taking on all cases of abuse of power she could find. That is, beyond doubt, what killed her.
It is therefore logical to ask how can an investigation, helped it is true by foreign help, but led by the Malta Police, as the Commissioner of Police was at pains to clarify in his now infamous press conference, come at some sort of definite result given the close links between the police and the State.
It is for this reason, but not just for this reason, that the pressure must be kept up. Holding a second mass protest as was done yesterday is one of the ways. Taking the initiative of camping outside Castile, as the women of Occupy Justice did, is another.
There will be Daphne’s funeral in the coming days, at which one expects crowds to be present. But the issue must not be interred with what remains of Daphne’s body.