VALLETTA: The shocking assassination of an influential anti-corruption blogger has brought to a head the public frustration at Malta’s stagnating institutions, bubbling away for years beneath the Mediterranean holiday island image. AdvertisementsAcademics, lawyers, friends of Daphne Caruana Galizia and mourners alike tell a common tale of failing confidence in the tiny country’s politicians, police, business culture and justice system. Monday’s fatal car bomb attack has left the country asking itself: if the most prominent critic of Malta’s institutions has been silenced in such a brutal way, who now will speak up? The whole country,” said Andrew Borg Cardona, a prominent veteran lawyer who is in practice with Caruana Galizia’s husband. To people who live here, it’s something we’ve come to live with,” Matthew Demarco, 30, a designer, said of the country’s practices.

Source: Manila Times October 19, 2017 18:22 UTC