The level of justice in Malta is personified in how people were appointed by the Justice Minister to remove the memorial of slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, PD MP Marlene Farrugia said in Parliament on Wednesday.
Speaking during a discussion on the estimates for the Ministry for Justice, Culture and Local Government, which is headed by Minister Owen Bonnici, Farrugia said that in every sector of justice - be it social, environmental or in other forms - Malta registers a "total failure".
She said that she could not fail to mention the tragedy that was the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia which, she said, had occurred in the political climate that the government itself had created.
Since then, she said, other journalists had been killed in other countries and their killers had been found. In Malta however, when people want to express that the mastermind of this killing was still loose and want to call for justice, they find people appointed by the Minister himself to remove the memory that they want to create.
Farrugia was referred to the continuous removal of the makeshift memorial that had been created in memory of Daphne Caruana Galizia in front of the Great Siege Monument in Valletta.
Turning her eyes onto the local councils, which was another subject for the morning's sitting, Farrugia said that the government simply did not want local councils to be used for and by the people, even though they themselves were the closest organ to the country's people. Going about this was simple for the government, she said; they just cut the funding for it.
On culture, Farrugia said that the government was on an assault against Malta's culture and was allowing the country's memory to be destroyed in front of the eyes of the people.
She said that Labour governments have always started with good intentions, and been built on the cries for more power to the people; but as years go by, she said, they have gotten "drunk on power", and centralised that power so that it is in the hands of the few people "on this inside, or the few people behind those on the inside".
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