Valetta, Dec.8.– Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Valletta on Sunday as pressure mounted on Malta’s prime minister to resign immediately over the investigation into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
At least 5,000 demonstrators marched from parliament to the office of Joseph Muscat, holding up photos of the journalist, who was killed by a car bombing in October 2017, and placards reading “mafia state”, “assassins” and “blood on your hands.”
They packed into a square in front of the Auberge de Castille, a magnificent Baroque building constructed in the 16th century by the Knights of St John, who turned Malta into an island fortress after losing their fiefdoms in Jerusalem and Rhodes.
“The situation is still desperate,” read one placard, echoing warnings made by Mrs Caruana Galizia in the last blog post she wrote before she was murdered.
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