Earlier this week, Nazzareno Dalli, known as Ronald il-Muga, was back in Court over a domestic violence case involving his pregnant former partner. The woman asked the Court to discontinue the proceedings, telling it that she no longer feared Dalli and wished to reconcile with him. The Court subsequently halted the case.
Labour once promised to reform domestic violence law so that cases against abusers don’t rely solely on the Court testimony of the victim. This reform seems to have been ineffective in Malta, failing to implement the principles of the Istanbul Convention which the Labour government signed in 2014.
Nazzareno Dalli was charged with threatening his former partner and their unborn child, using electronic communications to issue threats, as well as breaching previous bail conditions and being a recidivist. Once again he can walk out free.
Ronald il-Muga still faces separate criminal charges over the attempted murder of his two former stepdaughters, who were aged 12 and 15 at the time of a knife attack in Marsa in March 2024. He has pleaded not guilty to those charges.
His previous victims are left living with fear and trauma, knowing that he is free and living seemingly normally within society. His latest victim may have misrepresented him when she told the Court that she no longer fears him.
The details of the previous case are even more disturbing than they might initially appear. Ronald il-Mugawent to his former partner’s residence intending to kill her. When he did not find her there, he turned on her daughters instead — the very children he had supposedly sought to protect.
He also has children with another partner and has since shared photographs of himself with them on social media. He remains free and out on bail.
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