Her slaying drew swift denunciations in the tiny EU nation. More recently she had expanded her criticism to include the opposition Nationalist Party. The family said the magistrate, Consuelo Scerri Herrera, “in her personal capacity, had launched judicial procedures against (Caruana Galizia) regarding comments she had written.”Ĭaruana Galizia for many years was a harsh critic of Malta’s Labor party and government. The leak exposed the identities of rich and powerful people around the world who allegedly had offshore holdings in Panama.Ĭaruana Galizia’s family has asked the Courts of Malta to have the magistrate assigned to conduct the inquiry into the journalist’s death replaced. One son, Matthew, was on the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its work on the Panama Papers scandal. government and the FBI for help investigating the car bombing.Ĭaruana Galizia is survived by her husband and three sons. Monday evening’s Parliament session was scrapped, except for briefings about the bombing given by Muscat and Delia, who called the reporter’s slaying a “political murder.” Economy Minister Chris Cardona claimed libel when she wrote that he visited a brothel while in Germany on government business.
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Opposition leader Adrian Delia sued her over a series of stories linking him to a prostitution racket in London. He described her as “was one of my harshest critics, on a political and personal level” as he denounced her slaying.Ĭaruana Galizia herself had been sued for libel over articles she wrote for her blog. (The Malta Independent via AP)Ĭaruana Galizia’s death resulted from a “barbaric attack” that also amounted to an assault on freedom of expression, Muscat said. 16, 2017, when a bomb destroyed her car as she was driving near her home in Mosta, a town outside Valletta, Maltas capital, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said. This undated photo shows Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese investigative journalist who exposed her island nations links with the so-called Panama Papers.
VALLETTA, Malta - A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation’s links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, the prime minister said.ĭaphne Caruana Galizia, 53, had just driven away from her home in Mosta, a large town on Malta’s main island, when the bomb went off, sending the vehicle’s wreckage spiraling over a wall and into a field, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said.
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