‘Government celebration of anything it perceives as passivity a mistake’ – Caruana Galizia brothers

Daphne Caruana Galizia’s sons, Matthew, Andrew, and Paul, said that the Maltese government is quick to celebrate anything it perceives as passivity from the international community when it comes to the assassination of their mother, Daphne Caruana Galizia. “That is a mistake,” they said in a statement.

They statement was issued in reaction to the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers answers to a Dutch Parliamentarian and the ensuing reaction by government officials.

The CoE’s Committee of Ministers said it does not see any reason for taking additional measures, adding that it was confident that, “the Maltese authorities will continue to make appropriate use of all the means and mechanisms in place both in the Council of Europe and at domestic level and in full respect with the fundamental values and standards of the CoE.

“The world is shocked by what happened and will never look at Malta the same way again—not until we, as a country, confront head on the criminal forces that have usurped the state. The first step is to acknowledge that we have a deep problem with corruption and impunity, and that our institutions lack the independence and capacity to do anything about it,” the Caruana Galizia brothers said.

“We should welcome - request, even - international scrutiny. A conservative response to an MP by a group of ambassadors in Strasbourg, including our own, is not cause for celebration by government officials, especially when that reply is based on open deceit. There is no such thing as ‘judicial investigations’ in Malta and there can be no judicial prosecution. Neither are any sort of investigations whatsoever open into any of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s reporting, with the one exception of a magistrate seeking to pin down a declaration of trust showing that Michelle Muscat is the beneficial owner of Egrant Inc, evidence which was clearly spirited out of the country over a year ago.

“That the police are not investigating any of this is unprecedented in Maltese history and a scandal in itself, now that our mother, Daphne Caruana Galizia, the person who first reported on this, has been executed before our eyes.”