In Malta’s spotlight as trials unfold over the 2017 Caruana Galizia murder; Schembri, a former PM chief of staff, is implicated in the case.
The Maltese court continues the trial of Yorgen Fenech, accused of orchestrating the 2017 murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Prosecutors describe a complex web of payments and accomplices, while the case has sparked calls for accountability over an atmosphere of impunity linked to high-level politics.
Yorgen Fenech has been acquitted on charges of complicity to murder and criminal association to commit murder in the Daphne Caruana Galizia case. Jurors found him not guilty by an 8-1 margin after eight hours deliberation, nine years after the journalist’s 2017 car bomb killing sparked Malta’s post-independence political crisis and investigations into state corruption.