A note to listeners, this episode contains graphic descriptions of violence.
The fight against corruption and the decimation of the rule of law must continue. Malta is in a dangerous place, and now we can no longer say that it is corrupt politicians who have brought it to this point, for it can no longer be denied that these corrupt politicians are a reflection of society.
Abomi nineteen February twenty nineteen, nearly eighteen months since Daphanese's murder, and tonight's a party is in full swing.
At this point, it's been four months since Jurgen Fanek, mister alleged Mastermind, was publicly identified as the owner of seventeen Black, a company which planned to make two million dollars worth of secret payments to government ministers. At this point, two mister Finnick is now a suspect in the official police investigation into Dapanese murder. Secretly watched by police, mister Fennick is also being discussed at the highest level of government.
But if Malta is in a political crisis, you wouldn't know it on this night. Instead, here in the elegant seventeenth century Gaginti Palace, the official country residence of the Multese Prime Minister. A small birthday party is on the way and it looks like it's going pretty well.
Tonight, Prime Minister Joseph Mouscat is forty five years old and he's celebrating. This is a leaked video from the night. You can see the Prime Minister and his wife leading the singing of an old Maltese political song with lyrics adapted to be about the birthday boy.
Joseph Moscot is grinning from his ear, bouncing up and down in front of the crowd, hand pumping the air. His wife, Michelle, elegantly dressed, stands by him, waving a bottle of champagne. It's clear everyone is having a great time.
And why shouldn't they at this point. Joseph Moscatt is one of the most successful politicians in modern Maltese history, elected to office twice, but this will be the last birthday he will spend in Grigeni Bellis.
By the end of this year, his government will have fallen and Joseph Muscat will have resigned in disgrace, brought down by the aftermath of Daphne's murder and the corruption scandals that led to it.
And there's another reason this throughout the forty something birthday party is memorable.
He doesn't pop up in the leak video, but there's someone else here at the Palace tonight, Jogan Fennik, mister alleged mastermind. In spite of all the recent events, he's been invited to this intimate birthday gathering for the Prime Minister's closest friends and relatives.
And as Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is well aware of Jurgen Fenec's role and the scandal that has shaken his government to its core. That scandal is the main reason why he has to repeatedly deny that his government has a problem with corruption. Definitely would have said this makes sense. She believed that Malta's current crop of politicians, and this Prime Minister in particular, fundamentally don't see why corruption in public life is a problem. So long as it is
kept secret. Why does it matter if minister has received secret payments from rich entrepreneurs and businessmen. It's none of your business. And the Prime Minister is also well aware that Phenek is also now a suspect in Malta's most famous murder.
Case, and yet here he is at the Prime Minister's birthday. Any applications for pardons or plea deals for people arrested in the murder case will have to be personally signed off by the Prime Minister and his cabinet, and on this evening, according to press reports, Jogan Fennec makes sure to leave a good impression with the Prime Minister. His birthday presence for mister Muscat is thoughtful, personal and very expensive.
Yogen Fennec hence over three rare vintage bottles of Petrus red wine from France, one of the most expensive wines in the world. One bottle is from the air of Joseph Mousquart's birth, the other two are from the air of Mouscat's twin daughter's birth. Total estimated resale value of more than six thousand US dollars. Malta's Ministerial Code forbids ministers from accepting gifts which quote might be deemed to create an obligation, real or imaginary.
It's worth repeating. All applications for pardons or plea deals for people arrested in the Daphne murder case will have to be personally signed off by Joseph Muscat and his cabinet, and it's also worth repeating a at this point, Yogen Fenek is suspected of commissioning the hits against Daphne Please yet to be arrested.
Prime Minister Joseph Mosquat will later claim that he never met Jurgen Fenek in February twenty nineteen. Later still, he will admit that Fenek was at the birth day party, but claimed that the invitation was signed off by law enforcement as part of a policy of acting normally towards Fenek to avoid arousing his suspicion. Acting normally in this case includes accepting thousands of dollars worth of gifts from
a man known for bribing politicians. Asked about his birthday party in an interview with The Times of Malta, Joseph Mosquat said, quote on the Gurghanty event, the invite was issued following consultations with the Malta Security Services. This is not the first time I have been slandered with false accusations and even evidence which at the end it transpired to be fabricated. I am denying all these unfounded alegations, including this latest figurement of someone's very vivid imagination, and.
On this night, another man allegedly involved in Daphne's murder isn't that far away from the party either. Melvin the middleman Jorgan Fennik needed a lift to and from the Gagerti Palace, and so Melvin himself acted as chauffeur on the night. While the alleged architect of Daphnese's murder is partying with the Prime Minister, his middleman is waiting outside in the car park.
Welcome to Malta from iHeart Podcasts, Topic Studios and Vespucci. I'm Manuel Delia and I'm John Sweeney and this is Crooks Everywhere, Episode nine, Escape.
By Yacht, So You're going. Is one of MARTA's richest men. He is one of the bosses of the Hilton chain and.
Malta Hermann Greek, the editor in chief of the Times of Malta.
He kept pretty much of a low profile and you know, not many people knew him before his name cropped up in connection with the murder.
Photographs of Jorgen Fennek show at all six to four or more muscular guy bald, something of the well dressed FuG about him with a taste for designer sunglasses.
A cartoon image of a mafioso.
And he is a person who he was very close to many people and governments, and this came across from follow up investigations we carried out, and it showed that he had he used his contacts in governments for his er. You know, I wouldn't say, I need to be careful how to word this, but he definitely uses contacts in governments.
Which is one way of explaining Jorgen fennex presence at the Prime Minister's bash at Gagenti Palace. But by the time of that party, Jorgen Fennex world is already in free full By now, his contacts may also have tipped him off that he's being watched as a suspect in Daphne's murder. It's not clear if he knows this or not, but he is under surveillance and his phone is being tapped.
And then there is a problem that the men that he allegedly hired to organize Daphanese's murder are also beginning to crack.
As we know, the team of contract killers that killed Dephanie have already been arrested and are awaiting trial. Jurgen Fenex's access to secret information about the investigation was insufficient to stop that happening. One of them, Vincent Dekough, has now begun talking to the police in the hope of a plea deal or pardon. Jurgen Finex's old friend, Melvin, the middleman in the crime, has also begun to fold under the pressure, depressed, drinking too much and sometimes suicidal.
A few months before the Prime Minister's birthday party, that situation reaches breaking point. Melvin admits to Phenek that he has been secretly recording all their conversations about the murder and the cover up. He admits that he's betrayed him.
Probably Also around the same time, Melvin gives Fenek a copy of a letter. It's one page long and all in capital letters, and it's from the heart. In party reads.
Ji A Melvin telma At not ill informatio. I Melvin Teoma am providing this information that I was the middleman in the case concerning Miss Karwana Galicia. I am relaying this proof so that you will know who hired me and paid for the body in Bomba. I am doing this because I realized that these two people Jurgen Finek and Keach Cambriel Cosco were working to get rid of me as well. So I prepared this proof so that if I am eliminated, you will know the entire storya Cola.
It's a confession but also a threat. Melvin the Middleman is cashing in his insurance policy. He wants Jurgen Finek to know that at any time he could take any of these materials to the police. In fact, Melvin has no evidence that Keach Cambri paid for Daphni's murder or is planning to kill him, but he does know that Cambri is close to Urgen Finek, and it was Cambri who organized Melvin's imaginary government job.
The message is clear, kill me now if you like, but the truth will get out, and if I die, you will be the main suspect.
We don't know exactly how Fannek responds initially what this moment of complete betrayal feels like. During their decades of friendship, the years at the racetrack, the shared hobbies and gambling holidays, Melvin the Middleman has always had the junior, more submissive role in the relationship, the grateful helper, hoping for favors, driving mister Fanneck around Malta, dropping off gifts of food, or laying racing bats for him, or allegedly hiring hitman
to kill a journalist. Now Melvin is reversing all of that, telling one of the richest men in Malta that he too has power and that he shouldn't be taken for granted. That he is prepared to bring them both down if he needs to, not the kind of thing that most friendships can weather. But whatever each of them are thinking at this time, they continue to work together and to communicate. Fennec continues to pass on secret information about the police investigation.
For his part, Melvin doesn't yet carry out his threat of sharing his archive of evidence with the authorities. At the same time, he continues to do favors for Jorgan Fanec, like driving him to the Gurganty birthday party and so. On the surface, it seems as though nothing has changed between them, but we now know that soon after Jorgan alleged mastermind, Fanec has other things on his mind.
Two grenades, two glock pistols, two machine guns, a scorpion which is a type of rifle, and eight hundred bullets together with Silence, says for the pistols, this is interesting.
Jason as a party, Daphnese family's lawyer has a shopping list of some of the things that organ Phenac tries to buy on the Dark Web. This weapon's buying spree comes a few weeks after the organ Phenic discovers that Melvin the Middleman has been secretly taping their incriminating conversations on the iPhone in his sock. In fact, that particularly for weapon buying spree doesn't work, those purchases are blocked, but others are not.
And in another separate purchase, Fennek had received an email assuring him that a twenty gram shipment of potessium cyanite had been shipped to him that particular morning. Potessium cyanide it's a chemical that releases a highly toxic gas.
To be clear, we don't know what Phanek has in mind, or whether he has anyone in mind when he tries to buy these things. The Dark Web weapons buying spree happens in November twenty eighteen, a year after Daffie's murder and around the time that The Times of Malta revealed he was the owner of seventeen Black. What we do know is that Melvin the middleman certainly fears for his life. He must worry that even his archive of secret recordings won't be enough to keep him safe from Urgen Fennec.
I am more than sure that he wanted to get ridol melventeoma. No doubt getting rid of Melventella would have removed the link between Rinel Fedec mastermind and the de Georgios, ensuring his impunity.
But the sheer number of deadly weapons organ Fennec is attempting to buy is also suggestive.
I have no doubt, I am morally convinced, not just me, that those purchases were made to assassinate a number of people, including Melvin Tema. So eight hundred bullets, rifles, pistols, grenades were definitely not for one person. The poetassium cyanide twenty grams twenty grams are more than enough, more than enough to kill two people at the least.
Whatever the purpose of these gruesome purchases, they suggest that Jurgen Phenec fees things are rapidly moving towards a crisis.
The situation with Melvin is on a knife edge. The Daphne projects. Journalists are closing in and the multi police are now watching the movements of Jugen Fennec and Melvin the Middleman, and they're tapping Jugen Fenex's phone. The evidence for their involvements in Daphne's murder keeps on mounting.
And the strain of it all is showing on organ phenac tool. As his cocaine habit drastically increases, people start to notice him acting erratically, but.
The key moment of crisis doesn't come. Instead of arrests or poisoning by potassium cyanide, there is a strange, uneasy stalemate for nearly a year. It seems as though, for a while longer the wealth and influence of Jurgen Fennek is still enough to hold off the consequences of his alleged crime.
Still, no more arrests in the investigation into Dafanie's murder. Melvin the Middleman remains at large and afraid for more these anti corruption campaigners like myself, this period is one of the real low points after Dafni's death. As journalists, we know the police knew about Melvin the Middleman. We know they know about Jurgen Fennek. We keep that knowledge
to ourselves not to tip off suspects. But as months roll by, it feels more and more like we are being complicit in some conspiracy to let those with money and contacts to live above the law.
Deafhnely's son Matthew becomes so frustrated at the failure to arrest Melvin the middleman, but he says he's attempted to start spray painting Melvin's name on wolves just to gain a reaction.
It feels as if Daphne's murder will become like so many other contract killings in Malta, unsolved and eventually quietly forgotten. At this time as well, the second half of twenty nineteen, John and I are also writing Murder on the multa express our book on Daphne's death, co written with mafia
expert Carlo Bonini. Ahead of publication, we ask Jurgen Fanek via his lawyers to comment on allegations that he and his company, the Tomask Group Limited, are involved in illegal activity, and we name Jurgen Fanec as one of a number of possible culprits in Daphne's murder. His lawyers write back to us to say, in part.
Mister Finnick categorically rejects any allegations, assertions and auth suggestions made in his regard as completely baseless and unfounded.
We also receive legal threats from his lawyers trying to dissuade us from publishing. We later discover that Fanek makes inquieties with a London law firm to sue me for a round seventy million UK pounds around eighty nine million dollars, Like I'll ever have that money to pay them by loose.
Frustration is also building at another point because investigators from other European countries have been brought in to help find Japanese killers. Europot is now involved.
That's the agency that coordinates different European police forces when their investigations take them across borders.
Investigators there learn about Melvin the Middleman's role and about his archive of secret recordings, and they are incredulous that he still remains at large. Eventually, they threaten to walk away from the case completely until action is taken, and so at last, Multa's police hatch a plan for Melvin's arrest. The strategy is this take him down for money laundering initially,
rather than his role in Daphne's murder directly. The crackdown will start dramatically with a surprise police raid, a search, and Melvin the Middleman's arrest.
But perhaps not surprisingly, the underworld is more than ready for this. News of the plan is leaked to Melvin the Middleman well in advance, just as the original swat rate to arrest Dephane's assassins at the Potato Chat had been Jurgen Fannek and two of his goal betweens give Melvin a precise date to expect the raid. He's given a full month's warning. According to Melvin. They even promise to list the areas in his property that will be searched, so that he can tie the up and ensure nothing
incriminating is found. According to Daphne's son Paul's research, the name of the arresting officer is also passed to Melvin and the fact that he will be helpful.
After the arrest. The interrogation will also be stage managed, with questions and suggested answers being sent by contacts inside the police to Melvin the Middleman well in advance. Like a teasing student, Melvin has been given a chance to see the exam paper early until the best answers for top marks.
When the date of the surprise raid is rescheduled, Melvin the Middleman is upset. He explains that the new date is inconvenient, clashing with the prize draw for his illegal lottery and costing him money. See if you can speak to him so with it in two weeks, he suggested to Jurgen Fanek, almost as if trying to postpone an inconvenient work meeting or a dentist's appointment.
And perhaps this is also a sign of how far Melvin the Middleman has come, how the balance of power in his relationship with you Organ Fennik, who has also since he started collecting evidence of their crimes.
In the event, Fanek has bad news, he says even he has no way to stop or delay the arrest, but he will try to lessen the disruption to Melvin's family. Yogen Fennec also promises that Melvin the Middleman will be bailed quickly and that Fennek himself will be waiting outside the prison gates to meet him. Afterwards, they'll get snacks to celebrate. He suggests the traditional multi spastries called pastizzi. It will be a great reunion between old friends.
But in order for Melvin to get all this support and assistance, there's just one obstacle, one thing that he needs to do first. Jason as a party later cross examined Melvin the middle Man in court.
He was repeatedly told to destroy the evidence he had on Jurgenzhenek.
It keeps on being mentioned. Jorgen Fhennic texts him asking to ensure that before the arrest.
Be one hundred percent everywhere is clean.
And Thomas said, thankfully, I refuse to destroy the evidence because it was thanks to those staves that I could remain alive and eventually turn state witness.
When the raid does happen, it takes place earlier than the agreed date and with a different officer in charge. Melvin's at the wheel and his car is suddenly cut off by police vehicles. On the passenger seat is a small ice cream box, which he grabs as he's being taken in. Inside the box is a jumble of paper
and USB pen drives his precious evidence archive. And although he's being arrested for money laundering, Melvin the Middleman is so panicked or so relieved that he immediately says that he wants to talk about.
Them, and with that the dam is broken. You're a poll take charge of the ice cream box archive in its contents. It's immediately put on a plane to the Hague to avoid tampering. Melvin the middleman quickly applies for a pardon for all his crimes in exchange for a full confession. When Organ Phanic hears this, his own feelings of panic and paranoia begin to spiral, perhaps accelerated by drug use. He begins to work frantically on a new plan.
The alleged mastermind Thanak is now going on the run. First, he and his brother relocate to a remote villa in Malta to figure out the options. Organ Fane's personal doctor overhears some of their discussions and later testifies about what is said. Apparently, the conversation ranges widely, playing with ideas for a place refuge, as though planning a package holiday Tunisia, France, Mexico, Dubai, private jet, or exit by fishing boat. Each strategy has
its pros and its cons. Organ Fennec texts his uncle about one concern. In translation, the text reads.
If I pick it up in the EU, I'll end up in Europol's hands.
Another message shows him agreeing with his brother that there is no turning back now.
It's probably better a why the ways you suggested and leave for good.
Records also show Fenex desperately transferring huge sums of cash around the world. At one point, he begins messaging a pilot in a private jet company to see if he can hire a plane. Jorgen Fanex's uncle warns against this, a private jet is now too risky, the airport is being watched. Better to leave in Fanex personal Yocht. The same doctor describes Fanec as high during these discussions.
Eventually a plan of escape emerges, using multiple forms of transport, crossing several countries in a few days.
The escape plan is this, late at night, unobserved, Jurgen Fannek will board his private yacht in the marina outside his luxury apartment. He'll have large amounts of cash with him and passports. The yachts captain will make for Pozzalo in Sicily on the pretense that the boat needs repairs. From Sicily, Fannek will travel by track to France. In Nice, an untraceable car will be waiting for him, and from
there on to the next location. They agree that credit cards are to be avoided too much of a security risk.
The details sound wild and extravagant, a James Bond fantasy of going on the run, but I don't think it is far fetched. Venneck has a lot going for him as a fugitive. He is used to having his wealth stashed in anonymous companies and virtual pirate caves around the world, and his wealth also has the potential to smooth over many of the obstacles that fugitives might face.
And then there's the question of who will chase him. He knows that many in Molta's government and law enforcement would rather never take the stand in a trial. Too many people are too compromised by what he knows. It's already proved hard enough bringing him to justice in Malta, let alone from a place like Dubai or Mexico. So the real question is can he first make it off the island.
Just before five thirty am on the twentieth November twenty nineteen, two years and a month after Daphnese murder, it's about an hour before dawn. Organ Fennick is settling into one of his two luxury yachts the Jot in the marina his family owned in Portomasso. A few meters along the quayside is the Blue Elephant Thai restaurant, shuttered for the night, the same spot where he first sold Melvin the Middleman
his plan to murder Daphne. A little further along is the entrance to the Portamasso Tower, the tallest building in the country built by Fennox's family, where he owns a penthouse apartment. A little further still is the Hilton Hotel and the taxi concession stand once used by Melvin the Middleman, but that is all in the past now. A hold doll packed with euro banknotes lies in one corner of the yacht. Suitcases with clothes are packed and ready in another. The yacht edges slowly out of the marina.
Fanek spent part of the previous night deep in fon conversation with Keach Cambri, his old school friend. Business a lie and, according to Melvin the Middleman, the man who has helped him cover up his involvement in Daphne's murder. Schambrie was pleading for him not to leave, arguing that everything could be sorted out if he stayed that it will look bad if Fanek leaves. Now, apparently Keach Cambri
was also sending Prime Minister Joseph Muscat updates. Both of them anxious that their friend might be dragging them towards further political scandal and outrage.
But just like Vincent Lekov and Melvin the Middleman before him, Jogan Fannek now senses that above all he needs to look out for himself. The rules of amoral feminism are about to be broken again. Today is a day for another day trial. He ignores the pleas of Keish Gambri, saying that his lawyer has told him they will come up with a narrative to explain his departure.
As the jaw pulls out into open water, you can see the lights of Malta's capital, Valletta on the horizon, its ancient fortresses and palaces silhouetted out against the night sky. Jurgen Fennek must know that if his plan succeeds, this will be the last time he will see the skyline, and the last time he will see Malta for many years, and perhaps he won't even see his family for a long time.
Before departure, the yachts captain warned Jogen Phannek, but the journalists has been snooping around the marina, but later disappeared in.
A boat like this. The southern coast of Sicily is only a short trip away. They head northeast towards the slowly lightning sky, no one to stop them. Perhaps it seems to Jurgen Fennec that he is once again breaking the rules that apply to other people and getting away with it again.
And then it appears a jot approaching fast behind them from Malta. Perhaps Jurgen Fhenneic hopes at first that this speedboat has nothing to do with him, but as it gains he must at last see the military dark gray paint. Then hear the loud hailo as they draw close that journalist who'd been watching the marina had not left. He'd call the police when the yacht pulled out of the harbor.
When armed officers pull up alongside the jaw and poort the vessel, they inform Urgen fhenneg that he is under arrest in connection with the murder of journalist deaf Niicarwana. Galizzia Fennek replies simply, Ahiarmela mussan do good.
We should not belong then.
We don't want to lightful light of Vignia, Northern Malta, late twenty twenty three, nearly four years later, a hot, dry Multise October. With all the high speed chases, gangster betrayals and politically subterfuge, it can be easy to forget the woman at the center of the story, but to this day, her friends, family and supporters still mourn her. This is the field where definitely was murdered, a field
with a view of the sea over rolling farmland. We're not There's a small shrine in the center of the field, at the spot where her burning car came to rest. It's decorated with a picture of Daphne and a small Maltese flag. Every year, on the anniversary of Daphne's death, these people gather here, a group of her closest friends, family and supporters, to mark her passing and remember her
life and achievements. Today is the sixth anniversary. The celebration is open to all, but it is always led by women.
I knew Daphne personally. Sons were the same age, and we used to meet when we're young matters. I used to read her blogs and I am distraught at the state of our country, how our beautiful little island has been completely ruined by corruption. And it's very very important. That's what Daphne went through and even died for, is very much there people's minds, you know.
It's easy to switch off.
Six years have gone by, and it's quite incredible that everything she came out with it is even more true today.
In the years since Daphane's death, some things have changed. The government of Joseph Muscat collapsed after Jorgan Phenix's arrest, pushed out by something close to a popular uprising.
Huge protests every couple of days, like nothing anyone in the country had seen in living memory.
Officially, Joseph Muscat has retired from politics and he maintains his innocence. For many people, his premiership will always be associated with the corruption scandals that led to Daphne's assassination. At the time of recording, Jorgan Fennick is behind bars awaiting trial for compley in Daphne's murder. The de Giorgio brothers, two of the three assassins, have been found guilty of
murder and sentenced to forty years in jail. The third assassin, Vincent the Koff, was given a reduced sentence of fifteen years for murder as part of the plea deal for testifying against his accomplices. Robert Addeus and Jemmy Veller are awaiting trial for supplying the bomb used in Daphne's murder. Both men have pleaded not guilty. Melvin Delmer received a
pardon for his confession. On the twenty first of July twenty twenty, a day before he was due to appear in court to continue his testimony about Daphne's murder, police were called to his home. He was found with multiple stab wounds to his abdomen and a slip throat. He was under official police protection at the time due to fears for his safety. He survived and indicated that the
injuries were a suicide attempt. A chief of staff in the office of the Prime Minister, Keith Schenbrie, stood down from government soon after his friend Jogen Fennek was arrested. Skembri himself was arrested and later released as part of the murder investigation. In twenty twenty one, Keith Schenbrie was separately charged with corruption and money laundering. Schmbrie denies all charges, and proceedings in his cases are still ongoing at the
time of recording. In twenty twenty one, the US State Department said that it was publicly designating Keithenbri and Conrand Mitzi due to their involvements in significant corruption. That means that both men and their immediate families are banned from travel to the United States.
Chris Cardoona, the former minister whose last happy day in politics was allegedly spent in a German brothel, has left politics, although recently threatened to return. Why not, he said he was never charged with involvement in the mayor there. Chris Cardona did not respond to our requests for an interview.
None of the three assassins Chinese George Georgia, Alfred the Bean Georgia, or Vincent Leakoff Muscat responded to requests for an interview for this podcast. Melvin the Middleman's representatives initially agreed to consider our interview request, but eventually stop responding to us. A representative of Jogen Finnik declined our requests for an interview, searching his upcoming trial.
Conrad Amtsi did not respond to our requests for an interview. Keach cambrideclined our request for an interview. Former Prime Minister Joseph Mouscart's representative declined our request for an interview, with the following message, Doctor Mouscart does not feel that mister Delilla and mister Sweeney can in any way be considered honest brokers in conveying a fair account of events. Some things in Malta today have not changed. The Labor Party
remains in power. New corruption scandals involving huge sums of money continue to be on earthed. The murder trial of Jurgen Fennec has been repeatedly postponed, just as for Deafni has been delayed again and again. The culture that Deafney warned about that of two Maltas both so opposed and divided that no shared national goals are possible. That continues. The tendency towards a moral feminism, the abdication of all moral obligations except loyalty to one's group, that also continues
in many instances. Officially, many of Deaphanie's allegations about corruption and government are being investigated, but months and years roll by, and hope of any outcome fates. But most of all, tragically, people in Malta continue to fear the consequences of speaking the truth in public. The freedom that Daphnie embodied is still under threat, just as it was in this field six years ago.
I always feel that she's almost more powerful. Her words are more powerful beyond the grave, because we keep going back to them, and we keep saying she was right.
She was right.
At the hour Daphne's murder took place, and the baking afternoon sun, as birds circle overhead and the Mediterranean gleams in the distance, the simple ceremony is held, beginning with a shirt silence of remembrance. There is one entry in duney blog that I often return to. It's a call for her readers not to be downhearted, even when the odds seem stacked against justice, fairness and truth. It was posted just over four months before her death. When I read it, I still hear her voice.
June fifth, twenty seventeen. I know you don't have to tell me. It's the reason I do it that this website has, over the last four years become a gathering post or rallying point for decent people who feel frightened and threatened at the rise, growth, and spread of a morality. You come here to feel normal in a sea of insanity. You want reassurance that it is not you who is in the wrong because you think people who do serious wrong should not be in government. No, you are not
wrong because you think the police should act. No, you are not wrong to feel sick when the mob cheers a corrupt bea officer. Of course you are not. You are right.
Of course.
It is wrong to vote for corruption. Of course. It is wrong to vote so as to put corrupt politicians into power. It is very wrong. The fight against corruption and the decimation of the rule of law must continue. There is something else I should say before I go.
When people taunt you or criticize you for being negative, or for failing to go with their flow, for not adopting an attitude of benign tolerance to their excesses, bear in mind always that they, and not you, are the ones who are in the wrong.
Next time, In our final episode of our investigation into the killing of Daphne Carojuana Galiticia, we look at the latest developments in the murder trial of Jogen Fennek and a corruption case against the then Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.
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