Yesterday in Court, as the Police arraigned the suspects in the 17 Black case, a Police Inspector testified under oath that the Police use various sources for their investigations including the media and press reports.
This admission is great news. It serves as a further vindication of the work by Daphne Caruana Galizia and also an explicit acknowledgement of the work by the press in general. The case is a result of a Magisterial Inquiry that was requested by the Nationalist Opposition in 2017 under the leadership of Simon Busuttil. The request was made with references from the reporting by Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Jason Azzopardi filed requests for Magisterial Inquiries based on extensive investigations and reports by The Shift News, who in turn have been condemned by the Prime Minister himself. In Malta, the press, along with civil society, remains as the last organised and institutional bastion that fights and deters the abuse of power in Malta. Most of the political opposition made to the government today is coming from Jason Azzopardi, and his work is made possible thanks to assiduous journalists like Caroline Muscat along with many whistleblowers who come forward with information.
Currently, the political situation has become so absurd that the Labour government is more focused on fighting the press, Jason Azzopardi, Robert Aquilina, and Repubblika than on fighting its supposed main political opponent, the Nationalist Opposition.
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