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Several hundred demonstrators gathered in front of the Valletta Law Courts on Friday to mark 13 months since the car bomb assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Netting blocking off access to the Great Siege Memorial opposite the Valletta courtsDemonstrators reclaim Great Siege monument in vigil for Daphne
Several hundred demonstrators gathered in front of the Valletta Law Courts on Friday to mark 13 months since the car bomb assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Netting blocking off access to the Great Siege Memorial opposite the Valletta courts had been covered in graffiti recalling Daphne Caruana Galizia on Thursday night. The spray painted messages which read «Daphne was right» and «The truth is out», with the number «17» repeated throughout, were turned over by the government at around noon under the watchful eye of Valletta 2018 Foundation chairman Jason Micallef. The demonstrators, however, reclaimed the monument, removing the netting and placing flowers and candles were they had previously been. Protesters have used the monument as a makeshift memorial to Ms Caruana Galizia until authorities blocked it off without warning, citing restoration works. During Friday evening’s gathering, two of the late Ms Caruana Galicia’s nieces read out a long list of posthumous awards bestowed upon the journalist to applause and cries of “brava” from the crowd. Among the honours were the renaming of the press room at the European Parliament, and several investigative... Read more