VALLETTA, Malta - The family of a journalist who was killed by a car bomb in Malta is urging Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to resign, after his former chief aide was released from jail in a probe aimed at finding the mastermind of the 2017 murder. The family of the slain journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, said in a tweet that “we share Malta’s shock and anger” that the ex-aide was released from jail a day earlier. “It cannot continue any longer.”“We urge the prime minister to step aside and let an unconflicted deputy take over. Thousands of Maltese on the Mediterranean island nation of some 400,000 people have been turning out nightly outside Muscat’s office calling on the prime minister to step down. Fenech “does not need a presidential pardon for the police to charge Schembri,” the family said in the tweet.

Source: thestar November 29, 2019 15:56 UTC