‘Traitors’ pay respects

– A year after a car bomb killed Maltese anticorruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, those who ordered the murder remain free while others continuing her work in the EU’s smallest state are branded traitors.

The windswept field where the mother-of-three’s burnt-out car ended up on October 16, 2017, has become a monument to her life.

Supporters of free speech like Tania Attard come to this isolated spot to place flowers under a banner calling for justice, fluttering alongside a Maltese flag.

“If the person responsible for this is established, perhaps then we can rest and see that justice is done,” Attard told

“I’m sure they never realised that it would come this far, that it would ... turn into something so important and international.”

After her death, an international consortium of journalists launched the Daphne Project, coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based organisation dedicated to continuing the work of killed or imprisoned journalists.

“They just thought they would eliminate her and then feel better but I don’t think that is the result at all, I think that it has backfired on them,” said Attard.

Those in Malta calling for justice say they are branded traitors. – AFP

Valletta