Caruana

One of three men accused of murdering Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017, changed his plea to guilty in a Valletta courtroom today.

Vince Muscat told the court that he was admitting to all charges, in a shock development that could prove crucial in the high-profile murder case.

The European Parliament has called on Malta's prime minister, Joseph Muscat, to quit immediately over his handling of the investigation into the murder of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, as it declared there were "serious and persistent threats" to democracy and the rule of law.

"Looking at these photographs after so many years, it certainly provokes emotions," recalls Ndricim Baci, who was then 22 and had left for Malta with his 15-year-old brother, Avni.

"Twenty-eight years have passed but I still remember those dramatic moments," adds Baci, who together with his family now lives and works in Italy.

Matic, who chairs the commission set up to investigate murders of journalists in Serbia, asked the representatives of the MUP and the Prosecutor's Office to do what is necessary to protect journalists who are exposed to drastic threats, and who have "targets being drawn on their backs."

Politicians in various European countries have insulted and discredited journalists, populism is on the rise, the press is vilified - and it has led to the creation of an environment in which two journalists were killed in just four months in two European Union states, Malta and Slovakia.

Four suspected pickpockets have been remanded in custody this morning. In two separate arraignments, the four women from Bulgaria were charged with carrying out pickpocket thefts in Valletta.

Greece's Supreme Court rejected on Thursday a request by Malta to extradite Russian former bank employee Maria Efimova, a whistleblower who helped murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia investigate money-laundering and alleged corruption in Pilatus Bank.

His wife found him bleeding at their apartment. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.

Babchenko's killer was waiting for him in the stairwell of his building. He shot him in the back.

Greece's Supreme Court will on June 14 rule on whether to execute European arrest warrants issued against a Russian whistleblower who helped a Maltese journalist investigate money-laundering and corruption.

Malta wants to arrest former bank employee Maria Efimova for allegedly providing false evidence, making false accusations to authorities, and appropriation of funds.

A Greek prosecutor appealed on Friday against the rejection of a Maltese request to extradite a whistleblower who supplied documents to murdered investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Malta has issued a European arrest warrant for 36-year-old Russian Maria Efimova, who stirred a political scandal over allegations of wrongdoing at Maltese-registered Pilatus Bank.