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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @11:55AM (4 children)
True anti establishment people lost one.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @01:59PM (3 children)
Yeah, but reading her work shows that she often resorted to ad hominem attacks, calling people crooks or ridiculing their physical appearance.
Word is the FBI has volunteered a team to investigate the bombing.
Malta has a veneer of Britishness from being a colony, but essentially it is a north African country, with allegiances drawn along family and kinship lines.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @03:43PM
You mean they are tribal, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @06:09PM
"Yeah, but reading her work shows that she often resorted to ad hominem attacks, calling people crooks or ridiculing their physical appearance."
oh, the horror! call off the memorial speeches!
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday October 19 2017, @09:25PM
Hmmm, who else have I heard doing the same? I think he was voted into office or something in the USA.