A Maltese investigative journalist, who filed a police report two weeks ago reporting threats, was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, the prime minister said.
Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, exposed the island nation’s links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers.
Caruana Galizia had just driven away from her home in Mosta, a large town on Malta’s main island, when the bomb went off, sending the vehicle’s wreckage spiraling over a wall and into a field, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said.
Her death resulted from a “barbaric attack” that also amounted to an assault on freedom of expression, Muscat said. He said the journalist “was one of my harshest critics, on a political and personal level” as he denounced her slaying. – READ MORE
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