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The memorial to Daphne Caruana Galizia, which was spontaneously set up at the foot of the Great Siege monument commemorating the fallen Maltese dead 450 years ago, has been cleared away several times since it was first informally established after her murderA memorial to Daphne - Martin Scicluna
The memorial to Daphne Caruana Galizia, which was spontaneously set up at the foot of the Great Siege monument commemorating the fallen Maltese dead 450 years ago, has been cleared away several times since it was first informally established after her murder almost a year ago. The latest clear-up occurred some 10 days ago when the Minister for Justice and Culture announced the monument was to be restored and safety hoarding was immediately erected to enable the work to proceed. “Activists” returned to the site in the course of the following weekend to mark the 11th month of Caruana Galizia’s death, putting up a banner and lighting candles at the foot of the hoarding, in effect re-establishing the makeshift memorial. This was removed in short order by members of the public cleansing department (insultingly referred to as “garbage cleaners” by offended activists). An activist and journalist, Manuel Delia, has now resorted to legal action, seeking an injunction against the minister to stop him from removing the memorial on the grounds that to do so “trampled on his freedom of expression”. It is for the courts to weigh the argument on grounds of the right to free expression against... Read more