Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist
The journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta was killed on Monday in a car bomb near her home. Daphne Caruana Galizia died on Monday afternoon when her car, a Peugeot 108, was destroyed by a powerful explosive device which blew the vehicle into several pieces and threw the debris into a nearby field.
A blogger whose posts often attracted more readers than the combined circulation of the country's newspapers, Caruana Galizia was recently described by the Politico website as a "one-woman WikiLeaks". Her blogs were a thorn in the side of both the establishment and underworld figures that hold sway in Europe's smallest member state.
Her most recent revelations pointed the finger at Malta's prime minister, Joseph Muscat, and two of his closest aides, connecting offshore companies linked to the three men with the sale of Maltese passports and payments from the government of Azerbaijan.
Panama Papers. Daphne Caruana Galizia's blog.
Also at BBC and The Washington Post.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by anubi on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:13AM (1 child)
Stuff like this is what happens if you piss the wrong people off.
We humans have a weird mode, called "agentic", which we can be placed in when we are subordinate. When in this mode, we can do unthinkable things, including murder, if that is what we are ordered to do.
The recinding of the judgements of the Nuremberg trials cemented the belief that people are not to be held accountable for their acts if committed in "agentic" mode. Had those people been held accountable for their acts, it would be likely nearly impossible for any authority to subordinate people sufficiently to carry out orders to murder.
( Stanley Milgram's study - Obedience to Authority - Psychology - Yale University )
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by etherscythe on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:02PM
(citation needed)
When did they get rescinded? IIRC, there were still a few Nazi hunters still trying to track down the accused up to a few years ago.
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