Military bomb, leaked secrets in the case of Caruana Galizia

The bomb that the Maltese journalist Daphne Karuana Galizia killed was a device of Military Grade to maximize the lethality.

Citing expert statements from the ongoing murder process, the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation said the bomb that her car blew up contained 300 to 400 gram of powerful material that was packed in a metal housing.

“It should kill both the driver and all passengers and would have killed or seriously injured everyone who was nearby,” said the foundation in a Facebook post. “Her death was not a tragedy. It was a cold, calculated crime.”

The device was described in the court of Mario Cmarec, an explosive expert from Eurol's anti-terrorist department, who says in the trial against Jamie Vella and Robert Agius, two men who are accused of delivering the bomb.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, a prominent investigative journalist who revealed corruption at the highest level of the government of Malta, was immediately killed on October 16, 2017 when the bomb dated under her car near her house and threw her body into a nearby field.

In a separate contribution on Tuesday, the foundation announced new details about Keith Schembri, who was the then Prime Minister Joseph Muscat at the time of the murder. Schembri is pursued by criminal law

Schembri was charged in November 2024, including Meineid, the flight of false oath, the disability of civil servants and the violation of the official secret law. He did not know his guilty.

According to the foundation, Schembri started the alleged master within a week after the murder of the alleged mastermind. He supposedly drew attention to the suspect when one of three kilises had worked with the police with the police for carrying out the bombings – a detailed prosecutor who argued that he only came from the prime minister's office. Schembri also helped facilitate internal discussions about the president's potential pardon for the killer.

In January 2019, Schembri is said to have sent a court contract to the alleged mastermind before it was officially issued. The police later discovered that the two men had exchanged 149 encrypted calls via the Signal -Messaging app, the recipient often changed the app's disappearance of the app. Their communication lasted to withdraw from the public office until Schembri was forced to arrest the suspect in November 2019. The suspect himself told the police that Schembri handed over information to him, the foundation claimed.

The foundation found that the Caruana Galizia family submitted a criminal complaint against Schembri in December 2019.

Although he was not mentioned directly in the most recent position of the foundation, businessman Yorgen Fenech is the suspect who allegedly grasped the murder. He was arrested in November 2019 when he tried to flee on board his yacht, and later charged with complicity in the murder. He denies the indictment and has not yet brought to court. On February 6th of this year he was released for the deposit – five years after his arrest.

The journalist's murder triggered mass protests, resignations of the government and a public investigation, which came to the conclusion that the Maltese state was responsible for the creation of a “culture of impunity” that enabled the killing.

Criminal proceedings against Schembri continue.