Three Billboards for the Prime Minister

● Billboards inspired by Oscar-nominated movie

Inspired by an Oscar-nominated movie, the #OccupyJustice movement yesterday put up three billboards to mark four months since the brutal assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

“In the Oscar-nominated movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, an anguished mother seeks justice for her murdered daughter. After months pass without the culprit being caught, the mother makes a bold move, and puts up three billboards on a main motorway, with pointed messages directed at the town’s revered Chief of Police.

“In a case of real life imitating art, four months to the day of the assassination of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the activist group #OccupyJustice put up three billboards in central Malta - along Regional Road and the Coast Road - with pointed messages directed at the country’s Prime Minister,” the group said.

“We were inspired by the film, because with the Maltese government’s disregard for the rule of law, living in Malta at the moment is pretty much like living in a mafia movie,” said the women-led activist group.

The three billboards, all black on red, in the same style as the Hollywood movie, carry the messages: A journalist killed. No Justice; A country robbed. No Justice; and; No resignations. No Justice.

“The country is rife with corruption and there is not even a semblance of justice being carried out. Yet, the government refuses to address this because it is feasting on a culture of impunity,” #OccupyJustice said.

It said that, four months after the assassination, those behind the killing remain unknown. Insisting that it will not rest until justice is served, the group asked why the PM was intent on retaining Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi by his side who were “both implicated in serious acts of corruption.”

The group is also asking for the resignation of Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar and Attorney General Peter Grech, who are not fit for the roles they occupy and are “simply dancing to the government’s tune,” the group says.

“#OccupyJustice are determined to fight for what is right, for justice and for a fair and equal society.”

Their motto is: “This is our nation, this is our home, and we are the people. We expect better, we deserve better, we demand better.”