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Yorgen Fenech not guilty of conspiring and facilitating the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia

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Mark Camilleri
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UPDATED:

The family of Daphne Caruana Galizia has issued a statement following the verdict. They said that, had Daphne not been murdered, she would have exposed the links between Yorgen Fenech, then-Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi and the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff over payments they were to receive through Fenech’s company, 17 Black.

They added that accountability is overdue for all those who enabled, facilitated and protected her murderers. Justice should now also be served for the corruption that made Daphne’s murder possible.

They also remarked that Fenech remains charged in Court with bribery and money-laundering offences, and that other prosecutions may also follow.

Yorgen Fenech was escorted out of Court with a large police escort and gave no comments to the press as onlookers shouted “Mafia State” and “żibel”.

End of update

Yorgen Fenech has been found not guilty by a jury of having conspired and facilitated the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Jurors found Fenech innocent on both counts at 8 to 1.

This article will be updated.

Still from Times of Malta.

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15 responses to “Yorgen Fenech not guilty of conspiring and facilitating the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia”

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  3. M.Galea avatar
    M.Galea

    Dal pajjiz ma jieqafx jissorprendi! Daqs tant evidenza kontrih u ma jehel l ebda akkuza! Inkredibbli!!

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  4. M.Galea avatar
    M.Galea

    Kollu tort tal pulizija meta kien hemm evidenza ta pulizija stess tixhed li ma thallitx tigbor affarijiet mid dar ta Keith u ghalhekk dan fixkel lil gurati! Imma kif ktibt kien hemm provi bizzejjed biex jehel ta’ komplici!! X misthija ta pulizija!! U gustizzja zgur ma saritx! Anke dak li qal Yorgen li Keith qatilha ghax semmiet li ghandu marda! Gidba fahxija! W possibli l gurati ma rawx dan kollu!!.? Ta l’ iskantament!

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  6. CeeEmm avatar
    CeeEmm

    The prosecution was a mess. There are too many contradictions, too many doubts and Melvin Theuma’s evidence was not credible. Then there is the fact that his pardon depended a lot on Keith Schembri himself.

    I don’t blame the jurors for finding Yorgen not guilty on both counts.

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    1. M.Galea avatar
      M.Galea

      There was enough evidence to find him guilty of accomplice. They should have deadlocked if not!

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