Caruana, killers ask for pardon in exchange for names of politicians

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23 March 2021 Alfred and George Degiorgio, the brothers arrested together with Vince Muscat as material executors of the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, have applied for a presidential pardon offering in exchange the revelation of the names of the politicians involved.

The Maltese media reported it.

The two brothers, already framed by the testimony of the repentant Muscat, have sent two separate letters to President George Vella and promise concrete evidence against "a former minister who commissioned" the murder of the journalist.

Vincent Muscat, the first repentant of the three hit men, in the courtroom has already testified that he accompanied his accomplice Alfred Degiorgio to Valletta for meetings in the government buildings in the months preceding the murder of the journalist for meetings with the former minister of the economy , Chris Cardona.

According to reports today MaltaToday, Alfred Degiorgio claims to be able to name both a former minister who commissioned the murder, and that of an intermediary so far never mentioned in the investigation.

The latter would not be the taxi driver and clandestine bookmaker Melvin Theuma, who in November 2019 obtained pardon in exchange for the evidence that allowed the arrest of tycoon Yorgen Fenech as the instigator of the assassination.

Alfred Degiorgio in his request for forgiveness said that he also had credible first-hand information on a robbery and another murder, in which the same former minister and a minister currently in office in the Abela government are involved.

His brother George also claims to have information on the instigator of the Caruana murder, but also on another assassination and two bomb attacks.

"This request for pardon must be treated like any other request presented to date. It cannot be discarded because it mentions the involvement of certain individuals who occupy or have occupied certain positions," the Degiorgio brothers' lawyer, William Cuschieri, told MaltaToday.

"Doing justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia means that her killers must not be forgiven. The crimes of the past must not become a bargaining chip that allows the killers to buy a way out."

Thus the family of the journalist killed with a bomb on October 16, 2017 commented on the news of the request for pardon presented by two other of the material perpetrators of the murder.