Updated 2pm with David Casa’s reply
The government “vehemently condemned” the spirit in which PN MEP David Casa wrote to the vice-president of the European Commission Frans Timmermans urging him to “urgently address” calls for a public inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
“Mr Casa’s letter, which effectively implies that a member of the Maltese government was responsible for the murder, is entirely baseless, fraught with suppositions and innuendos, and fails to provide any logical or credible justification or evidential basis,” ministers Owen Bonnici and Helena Dalli said in a reply.
On Monday, MEP David Casa pounced on allegations by the Daphne Project reports that a man once suspected of fuel smuggling called Minister Chris Cardona and one of the men accused in Ms Caruana Galizia’s murder.
He said it was becoming “painfully clear” why the government was resisting calls for a public inquiry into the murder.
In a letter to Mr Timmermans, Mr Casa expressed “great concern” about the claims that Dr Cardona “met with the low-level assassins… both before as well as after the assassination”.
According Dr Bonnici and Dr Dalli, the letter was nothing more than an…
