Maltese Businessman on Trial for Journalist's 2017 Car Bomb Assassination
En resumen
- Yorgen Fenech, a Maltese businessman, is on trial for complicity in the 2017 car bomb assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
- Two brothers were previously jailed for the murder, and two other men received life sentences for supplying the bomb.
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Prominent investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated in a 2017 car bombing in Malta. Her death has shocked the nation and highlighted corruption networks.
A Maltese businessman has gone on trial on the island over the 2017 car bomb assassination of prominent investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, whose death shocked the nation.
Yorgen Fenech, 44, is accused of complicity in her murder. He has denied all the charges.
In 2022, brothers George and Alfred Degiorgio were jailed for 40 years for the killing of Caruana Galizia, a harsh critic of the government who had uncovered networks of corruption in Malta and abroad.
Two other men - Robert Agius and Jamie Vella - were jailed for life in 2025 for supplying the bomb, while their convicted friend, Vincent Muscat, secured a pardon in exchange for testimony.
Preguntas abiertas
- What role did Yorgen Fenech play?
- Will further individuals be implicated?
