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30 November 2019

The hour of reckoning has taken place in Malta. While Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is due to leave by 18 January at the latest, the formal indictment for the murder of Daphne Caruana Galicia has arrived for entrepreneur Yorgen Fenech. For investigators it is the 37-year-old heir of the Tumas Group, transformed by his father into an empire of real and online casinos, luxury hotels, private ports, exclusive condominiums, the instigator of the car bomb that killed the journalist on 16 October 2017.

At the end of a lightning hearing, three charges were brought against him: he organized, financed and became an accomplice to the murder. And the time is approaching when even the premier Joseph Muscat, with the closure of the investigation, will have to answer to those who ask him to leave. Not only to the thousands of Maltese who for days have been protesting en masse under the power headquarters in Valletta (tomorrow at 4:00 pm, the eighth appointment), but also to an increasingly large portion of the party. With the candidate in pole position for the succession in the front row, MEP Miriam Dalli. That opened the day this morning with a post on Facebook that sparked social media. "I am angry and betrayed," wrote Dalli, adding: "I know that a great many other people feel like me. Those with whom I have spoken, Labor and otherwise, feel disoriented. It is not a question of Labor or nationalists. concerns the whole country ".

Prime Minister Muscat should hand over January 18, 2020
According to Labor Party sources, the machine for choosing Muscat's successor would have been set up between yesterday and today. On January 8, a first round of voting to skim the shortlist. On 18 January the final ballot. That day, Muscat should pass the hand. But the frantic developments in the investigations, protests, and international pressures (the European Parliament and the Council of Europe have the Malta case in their sights, with many doubts about respect for the rule of law) do not exclude accelerations.

Fenech points his finger at Muscat's former right arm
Yorgen Fenech, (which also has suspicions of connections with Italian mafias, with the investigators who have made it known that they are following with the collaboration of Interpol the traces of the Italian bomb suppliers) declared himself "not guilty" during the hearing . The entrepreneur immediately after the detention, and after trying to escape from Malta with his yacht, pointed the finger at Keith Schembri, claiming that he was the former right-hand man of Muscat the creator of the murder. Fenech also asked for grace in exchange for his evidence against Schembri. But it was not believed. Yesterday in court he declared he had a photo of the intermediary, the usurer taxi driver Melvin Theuma who accused him of being the instigator, together with the head of the cabinet in his office at the Auberge de Castille. And today the photo is punctually ticked on the front page of Malta Today. An irrefutable proof that the two knew each other .

From the game of crossed accusations he tried to distance himself from the Economy Minister, Chris Cardona, the one who self-suspended on the day of the resignation of Schembri and Mizzi. In a letter sent to the President of the Parliament he said he was concerned about having learned that there was at least an attempt to "fit" his name in the investigation. Cardona was put on the grill by Caruana Galizia in January 2017, when on her blog she told of a minister's evening in a brothel with her assistant during a mission in Germany. Cardona sued for defamation but the journalist was killed before the case could be debated.