Good evening,
Malta’s portals report with prominence the traffic accident which happened this afternoon on the Marsa-Ħamrun bypass. The other main story is related to the report which referred to the investigations into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder developments as reported in The Sunday Times this morning.
These are the main news for today as reported by Malta’s main news portals.
Seven people, including four children, were rushed to hospital on Sunday afternoon following a head-on collision between two cars on the Marsa-Ħamrun bypass. The Times reports that the crash happened at around 4pm, police said, when a BMW X6 driven by a 42-year-old man from Marsascala and a Renault Espace driven by a 38-year-old woman from Żabbar collided. A 40-year-old woman and seven-year-old boy were also inside the BMW at the time, while the Renault was carrying three 14-year-old girls. TVM reports that five ambulances went on the spot and took the injured to hospital.
One News has the following footage:
An Albanian man was arrested after he managed to enter a military facility in Safi. According to reports, the man first tried to enter the nearby Aviation Park. The Malta Independent reports that the man drove a Volkswagen Golf with stolen plates into a car park, stopping by a wall that separates the car park from the aviation company’s premises. He then climbed on the car bonnet and tried to scale the fence. One News reports that the man is suspected to be involved in the hold up that took place at Diamonds International in October of last year.
Prior to 2013 Malta was in a phase of sleep, and the government has been in a process of modernization ever since Labour was elected into office, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Sunday morning. The Malta Independent says that while speaking at a party event at St Paul’s Bay, Muscat said that technology was not the only sector that was being modernized, but also other sectors such as laws, health, local government and institutions amongst others.
The Nationalist Party Leader, Adrian Delia, said that those in a position to take action to protect Malta’s reputation and not doing so, are damaging the country. Net News report says that Delia was referring to the issue of 17 Black and the Panama Papers companies. Delia was speaking at a political event organised by the PN in Sliema.
A number of activists from civil society announced the establishment of ‘Repubblika’, a civil society organisation to participate in the national dialogue on the observance and enhancement of monitoring mechanisms of human rights, and of protecting and enhancing democracy in Malta. The activists declared their commitment towards constitutional values, which they called the foundations of life in Maltese society. Concurrently, they expressed great concern at the incessant and perilous deterioration of these foundations. The founding members of Repubblika are Robert Aquilina, Karl Camilleri, Sammi Davis, Manuel Delia, Alexander Hili, Joe Pace Asciak, Simon Sansone and Pia Zammit. Marion Pace Asciak is the Chairperson ad interim of Repubblika.
The family of assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has not been informed that “more than two masterminds” who commissioned her assassination have been identified.Caruana Galizia’s sister Corinne Vella told The Shift that the family has not been informed of any of the developments in the investigation published in today’s front page story in the Sunday Times of Malta, which said the police were “close to cracking the case”.
Newsbook reports that the son of slain journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia says he’s seeking ‘justice for his mother and her stories.’ In an article with the UK Sunday Times, Matthew Caruana Galizia has said that he has taken it upon himself to seek justice for his mother by taking up her role and to continue pursuing the truth behind the allegations she leveled against key officials.
