Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist

[Ghost Dog]

Monday 16 October 2017 18.33 BST First published on Monday 16 October 2017 18.09 BST
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 vehicle 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, Caruana 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...

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

[Denzil_DC]

1. Awful.

And this deserves much greater attention than it's currently getting on DU.

[Ghost Dog]

2. Yes please. Please pay attention...

Police have opened a murder inquiry and Malta has asked for international assistance - including from the FBI - with the investigation.
Meanwhile, the Malta Independent reports that the magistrate assigned to the case has requested it be taken up by someone else because she had been the target of Caruana Galizia's writing in the past. Caruana Galizia's family also requested she be replaced, the newspaper said.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41648940

[Nitram]

3. So many suspects in a case like this. I'd lean towards the Russians, but who knows.