Prosecutors who are currently prosecuting in Court Robert Agius and Jamie Vella have told a jury that the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia was motivated by her journalistic and was highly premediated. They also described her murder as a “highly-planned assassination”. The trial by jury which will involve up to 200 witnesses started yesterday.
Jurors were also told, yesterday, that one of the convicted murderers of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Alfred Degiorgio, had claimed that Adrian Agius had commissioned him to kill the accountant Carmel Chircop for €20,000. Carmel Chircop was shot and killed in a garage complex in Birkirkara in October 2015.
Prosecutors are arguing that Tal-Maksar brothers and Jamie Vella were involved in an organised crime network with the Degiorgio Brothers that involved the assassination of multiple individuals. Tal-Maksar brothers and Jamie Vella are accused of supplying and producing the bomb that killed Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Prosecutors in the case are referring to a particular period in Malta in which several figures were being assassinated on a regular basis until the killing spree culminated with the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The assassinations that took place from 2014 to 2017 also involved multiple car-bombs.
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