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Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist - Guardian

The journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta was killed on Monday in a car bomb near her home.
Daphne Caruana Galizia died on Monday afternoon when her car, a Peugeot 108, was destroyed by a powerful explosive device which blew the car into several pieces and threw the debris into a nearby field.
A blogger whose posts often attracted more readers than the combined circulation of the country's newspapers, Galizia was recently described by the Politico website as a "one-woman WikiLeaks". Her blogs were a thorn in the side of both the establishment and underworld figures that hold sway in Europe's smallest member state.
Her most recent revelations pointed the finger at Malta's prime minister, Joseph Muscat, and two of his closest aides, connecting offshore companies linked to the three men with the sale of Maltese passports and payments from the government of Azerbaijan.

by Bernard (bernard) on Mon Oct 16th, 2017 at 07:06:48 PM EST
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'The situation is desperate': murdered Maltese journalist's final words - Guardian

In her last blog post, published the day she died, Daphne Caruana Galizia signed off with a sentence that seems particularly chilling now.
"There are crooks everywhere you look. The situation is desperate."
Caruana Galizia, 53, felt she had good reason to feel pessimistic about Malta, and her enemies had good reason to fear her. Someone, it seems, was worried enough to want her silenced.
In that last post, which appeared just before a bomb blew up the car she was driving, Caruana Galizia had taken aim, and not for the first time, at Maltese politicians. But they were far from the only people in the firing line.

by Bernard (bernard) on Tue Oct 17th, 2017 at 07:34:04 PM EST
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