Malta PM says murdered journalist was his ‘biggest adversary’ but vows to find killers
Daphne Caruana Galizia, who had been called a ‘one-woman WikiLeaks’, was killed in a car bomb on Monday
The centre-left premier, who was accused by the blogger’s son on Tuesday of being complicit in his mother’s death, attempted to shift the spotlight onto the main opposition Nationalist Party, saying it had been the focus of Caruana Galizia’s latest investigations.
“It is unthinkable in a country like Malta to die for your job, in Caruana Galizia’s case for what she wrote,” Muscat said in an interview with Italy’s La Repubblica daily.
“She was probably my biggest adversary, she attacked me from when I was leader of the opposition. But that was her job,” he said, adding that he had called in “the FBI and other European security services” to find her killers.
Caruana Galizia, who had been called a “one-woman WikiLeaks”, was killed in a car bomb on Monday.
She had lately used her widely-read blog to make a series of detailed allegations of corruption in Muscat’s inner circle, some based on the Panama Papers data leak.
