Reporters defiantly pursue work of murdered Maltese blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia
‘You can kill the messenger, but not the message’
The investigative work of slain Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been pursued by dozens of colleagues worldwide who this week published a flurry of revelations and delved into the mystery surrounding her murder.
“You can kill the messenger, but not the message,” said French journalist Laurent Richard, who launched the “Forbidden Stories” project three years ago to continue the work of journalists silenced by murder or imprisonment.
For six months, 45 journalists from 18 media outlets around the world have worked together, secretly poring over a mass of documents left behind by Galizia, who was murdered last year by a bomb planted in her car.
The 53-year-old spent much of her life shedding light on the dark-side of Maltese politics, exposing corruption and back door dealings of the country’s political and financial elite.
In the years leading up to her death she had gone after the ruling Labour Party, virulently attacking Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and more recently also the leader of the opposition.