Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The 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.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb-kills-panama-papers-journalist

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BBC story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41637730

[lagomorph777]

1. Well I'm sure Crime Minister Muscat's reputation will be helped immensely by this.

[Stallion]

2. Some Apparently Do Not Favor Freedom of the Press

....or maybe she just didn't pay attention to that Peugeot Recall Notice

[Judi Lynn]

3. She had asked the local police for help earlier, according to the article.

According to local media reports, Caruana Galizia filed a police report 15 days ago to say that she had been receiving death threats.

Here's hoping the people who hired the assassins won't escape justice after their vicious, stupid violence.

What a miserable shame.

[Purrfessor]

4. Now is not the time...

to talk about car bombers silencing the media.

[tiptonic]

5. Hmmm

Why the name Putin, keep popping up in my mind?

[mpcamb]

8. The Panama Papers actually fingered many very rich, very dirty leaders thruout the globe.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. K&R! nt

[Blue_Tires]

7. Greenwald was unavailable for comment

Assange did have the unmitigated gall to comment, and I cussed his ass out for doing so

[Judi Lynn]

9. Malta journalist Caruana Galizia: Anti-corruption warrior

7 hours ago



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Daphne Caruana Galizia published scathing reports alleging official corruption

The killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a car bomb has left Malta in shock.

On one hand, it caused alarm that organised crime and political vendettas may have spiralled out of control. Caruana Galizia, 53, had relentlessly accused various Maltese politicians and other officials of corruption in her popular Running Commentary blog, and had been sued several times.

But her death near her home in Bidnija, a village in northern Malta, on Monday also represented the loss of "one of Malta's most important, visible, fearless journalists", in the words of former Home Affairs Minister Louis Galea.

In a career spanning more than 30 years Caruana Galizia was a pioneer of investigative journalism in Malta, said the Malta Independent newspaper.

More:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41650312