Following yesterday’s verdict acquitting Yorgen Fenech of murdering Daphne Caruana Galizia, some matters will now take on further perspective and context. As publishers and members of the press, we would like to address this changing context.
We were completely right to publish and expose Yorgen Fenech’s chats with powerful people, including chats between intimate companions within political circles. Had we not published this content, it would never have been published officially by the authorities following the verdict. Most of this material would have been kept secret, and hard truths would have remained concealed.
We would like to point out that Rosianne Cutajar resigned from the Labour Party Parliamentary Group and her parliamentary committee roles only after her chats with Yorgen Fenech were published here.
We fought a very expensive and expansive legal battle in order to retain the publication of this content, and we fought this battle alone, without any help from other press outlets that used our material freely and without our permission. We also took on the fight without any organised local support, all while organisations manned by government employees and academics, which fraudulently pretend to represent authors or free speech, issued public statements against me personally.
We don’t mind picking fights even when we are alone and without any support. We’re in this job because we believe in it and because it is in our blood. This is not our part-time job or our hobby, which we do in between giving lectures at Tal-Qroqq.
And we regret nothing. We will not delete or remove anything. If we face systematic disruptions, we will streamline again, adapt, and ensure that the content we have published remains online ad eternum.
We will never compromise against the organised criminals who murdered a journalist and a writer: one of our own. Verdict or no verdict.
Website Editor
Historian and Publisher
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