Bomb supplier for the murder of a journalist sentenced to life dungeon
Criminals who supplied a bomb with which they killed a Maltese investigative journalist in her car in October 2017 Daphne Caruano Galiziothey sentenced to life in dungeon. The judgment followed the jury’s decision last week that they Robert Agius and his associate Jamie Vella We are guilty of the allegations. Her family said that the judgment is a step towards a safer world for journalists, as potential killers have now realized that the journalist’s murder brings high penalties.
In the same process, they also condemned the labeling dungeon Adriana Agius and George Degiorgio; The two, along with Vella in October 2015, killed a lawyer with four shots Carmela Chircopa. The murders were not directly connected. Daphne Caruano Galizio They killed her journalistic work, and Chircopa did not have to return to Adriana Agius, brother Robert Agius, a long lawyer.
However, they are connected by contractors. All doomed for life -long dungeon, experienced and stiff criminals, were the members of the gang Maxar. It is named after the nickname of the Robert family and Adriana Agius this’ Maxar. They are a family business with them, as they gained knowledge and inherited the links from their father Raymond. The competitors were shot in 2008.
The murder of an investigating journalist Galizia caused a storm at home and around the world, which caused the Prime Minister of Malta to resign after a long insistence on position in 2020 Joseph Muscat. The journalist was a regular columnist of the newspaper The Sunday Times of Malta and later tHE MALTA INDEPENDENTand since 2008 she has published on her blog Running Commmentary. Due to the disclosure of corruption, nepotism and money laundering of the authorities, links between the economy and organized crime, the giving of Malta’s citizenship in exchange for investments also to suspicious persons and other dishonesty in at first glance an idyllic Mediterranean country, it was often the target of intimidation, threats and various lawsuits.
But this brave 53-year-old journalist did not stop. She was stopped by a bomb under her car.
Already in December 2017, they arrested alleged bombs by George Degiorgio, his brother Alfred Degiorgio and Vince Muscata. In the following years, all three pleaded guilty. Muscat was the first and, because he cooperated with the court, received only 15 years in prison, the Degiorgio brothers after 40 years. George Degiorgio, therefore, sat before condemning a lifelong dungeon for the murder of a lawyer for the murder of a journalist.
The murder client is supposed to be an important Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenechwho was arrested in the fall of 2019 when he wanted to escape from Malta with a yacht. He ordered the murder of a journalist because she wrote about his suspicious business. He is currently waiting for the trial, since in January this year, due to legal restrictions, the duration of custody with a bail had to be conditional. In addition to the trial for ordering the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizie, there is also trial for corruption, money laundering and illegal purchases of poison and weapons.
