These are the main headlines reviewed by our editorial and research team for today.
Yorgen Fenech is facing five accusations, including that of being the mind behind the homicide of Caruana Galizia. The testimony of intermediary Melvin Theuma who testified under Proclamation revealed among other matters that he feared that Keith Schembri was to collude with Yorgen Fenech to have him imprisoned. Theuma testified that Schembri had never passed him any money for the homicide of Caruana Galizia and that the mandate behind the homicide was Yorgen Fenech. Source: TVM
Businessman Yorgen Fenech knew that police had traced the SMS that detonated the bomb which killed Daphne Caruana Galizia less than a month after the murder. The shocking detail emerged in court this afternoon in the testimony of Melvin Theuma, the middleman who was granted a presidential pardon to tell all about the murder. Theuma said that during a conversation he had with Fenech, the businessman had mentioned that Keith Schembri was his informant. Source: MaltaToday
Justice Minister Owen Bonnici has confirmed the prime minister’s former chief of staff Keith Schembri was at all the briefings he attended about the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Dr Bonnici said he would feel “betrayed” if allegations made in court on Wednesday were proven that Mr Schembri leaked information from these breifings to chief suspect Yorgen Fenech. Source: Times of Malta
Former Labour Party secretary general Jason Micallef has expressed himself against “frivolous” debates between contenders for the party leadership on state television. These, he said in a Facebook post, should be restricted to the party media. “It does not make sense” to have leadership contenders fight it out on media that does not belong to the party. The aim of the “other media” is to create controversy that leads to tension, if not division, between the candidates. Source: The Malta Independent
Informed sources have reliably informed Newsbook.com.mt that the planned and promised press conference with a document to address the present political crisis has been scuppered. The MCESD failed to achieve the desired consensus and division among its members led to the promised press conference to be cancelled. According to our sources, however, the draft document described as ‘a pithy press release’, did not achieve the desired consensus. Source: Newsbook
