The Labour government’s ‘Libyan envoy’ Neville Gafà – an official at the Office of the Prime Minister - has filed constitutional proceedings against the Attorney General decrying the “amateurish” manner in which the last sitting in a libel case he had filed, was held. Gafà had sued The Malta Independent editor David Lindsay for libel in 2016, over articles implicating him in the Libyan medical visas scandal. In the last sitting, held on 28 October, five witnesses testified from Libya via Skype, telling the court that Gafà had demanded thousands of euros in return for medical visas for treatment in Malta. Neither was it possible to ascertain that the witnesses, who testified individually, were going to separate rooms or simply gathering behind the camera, just out of shot, when not testifying. To add insult to injury, said Gafà’s lawyers, the court had allowed witness Ivan Grech Mintoff, a right-wing politician who has taken up the Libyan medical visas as his cause, to be present throughout the sitting.

Source: Libya Today October 31, 2019 13:52 UTC