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Galizia is believed to have just published the last post on her widely read blog, Running Commentary, just before leaving her house Mosta, a town outside the capital Valletta.Newsbud has a breaking report on the murder:
"There are crooks everywhere you look now," she had written, "the situation is desperate."
Soon after driving away in her Peugeot 108, Galizia's vehicle exploded with such force it was sent flying over a wall and into a field.
Galizia reported death threats against her to the police just over two weeks ago, according to local media.
Her in-depth reporting made her many enemies, including the Prime Minister, opposition politicians and members of the judiciary.
She was described as a "one-woman Wikileaks" by Politico and her blog sometimes achieved a larger readership than all the other newspapers in Malta combined.
An investigative journalist was just assassinated in Malta with a car bomb. Media outlets are reporting this murder may be politically driven, and is only limited to Malta, but there is much more to this story as this journalist was getting too close to something much bigger, Operation Gladio B.Update (Oct. 18): Galizia's son has told his heartrending story of finding his mother's body:
Show notes
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- The Pentagon's $2.2 Billion Soviet Arms Pipeline Flooding Syria
- German Concerns Spark Pentagon Reroute of Syria-Bound Arms
- The Malta-Azerbaijan connection - chronology of a saga
- Panama Papers journalist killed by car bomb
- Updated: Daphne Caruana Galizia killed as vehicle blows up in Bidnija; bomb not in cabin - expert
- Malta blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia dies in car bomb attack
- Journalist investigating corruption in Malta killed by car bombing
- Sibel Edmonds: Azerbaijan- Operation Gladio B
- "The Lone Gladio" reveals Washington's strategy for winning the New Great Game
'I am never going to forget, running around the inferno in the field, trying to figure out a way to open the door, the horn of the car still blaring, screaming at two policemen who turned up with a single fire extinguisher to use it,' Matthew Caruana wrote.Update (Oct. 19): Daphne's son Mathew Caruana Galizia, Pulitzer Prize Winner in an open letter on his Facebook page:
'They stared at me. "I'm sorry, there is nothing we can do", one of them said.
'I looked down and there were my mother's body parts all around me. I realised they were right, it was hopeless.'
Muscat described the killing as 'barbaric' and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice. But that pledge was dismissed by the victim's son.
'A culture of impunity has been allowed to flourish by the government in Malta,' he wrote.
'It is of little comfort for the Prime Minister of this country to say that he will "not rest" until the perpetrators are found, when he heads a government that encouraged that same impunity.
'If the institutions were already working, there would be no assassination to investigate - and my brothers and I would still have a mother.'
After a day of unrelenting pressure from the President and Prime Minister of Malta for what's left of our family to endorse a million-euro reward for evidence leading to the conviction of our mother's assassins, this is what we are compelled to say.
We are not interested in justice without change. We are not interested in a criminal conviction only for the people in government who stood to gain from our mother's murder to turn around and say that justice has been served. Justice, beyond criminal liability, will only be served when everything that our mother fought for - political accountability, integrity in public life and an open and free society - replaces the desperate situation we are in.
The government is interested in only one thing: its reputation and the need to hide the gaping hole where our institutions once were. This interest is not ours. Neither was it our mother's. A government and a police force that failed our mother in life will also fail her in death. The people who for as long as we can remember sought to silence our mother cannot now be the ones to deliver justice.
The police may or may not find out who ordered the assassination of our mother but as long as those who led the country to this point remain in place, none of it will matter - the name of the person who did this will remain a footnote in the history of how our state was dismantled, taken apart piece by piece and devoured by the criminal and the corrupt.
The Prime Minister asked for our endorsement. This is how he can get it: show political responsibility and resign. Resign for failing to uphold our fundamental freedoms. Resign for watching over the birth of a society dominated by fear, mistrust, crime and corruption. Resign for working to cripple our mother financially and dehumanise her so brutally and effectively that she no longer felt safe walking down the street. And before resigning he can make his last act in government the replacement of the Police Commissioner and Attorney General with public servants who won't be afraid to act on evidence against him and those he protects.
Then we won't need a million-euro reward and our mother wouldn't have died in vain.
Matthew, Andrew and Paul
As it turns out, almost every single 'act of terror' that you can name turns out to be the work of evil bastards on the inside so that they can crush freedom of individuals.
Try to name one that wasn't. Then research it.
Munich Olympics, you say? Mossad, I reply. ad inf.
R.C.