WEBVTT - Episode 3: The Great Siege 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:05.800 Malta is not a real democracy. People in general do 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.600 not understand what democracy is, but think it is a 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.440 vote in a general election or a referendum. They fail 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:16.959 to understand that for democracy to exist, freedom of expression 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:18.119 must come first. 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.840 A warm October evening in the letter History written in Stone, 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.800 it's only a few days after Daphne's murder by car bomb. 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:40.360 Night is falling, and amongst the palaces and churches, the tourists, bars, 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.680 buskers and ice cream vendors, some exchange is happening. 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.120 A crowd is gathering, hundreds, then thousands of people from 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.760 across our country, spontaneously drawn to mark their sorrow at 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.680 what has happened in the last week, young old city 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:02.160 dwellers and people from the villages. Many carry flowers or candles. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:07.319 Some sing as they walk, most are silent, all united 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:11.480 by their shock at what has happened, also united by 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:15.880 anger at the forces that persecuted Daphne and ultimately many 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:25.880 believe killed her. From iHeart Podcasts, Topic Studios and Vespucci, 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:31.240 I'm Manuel Delilla and this is Crooks Everywhere, Episode three, 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:42.280 The Great Siege, Spontaneous demonstrations are in something that Multa 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.800 really does Normally we only come out onto the streets 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:47.840 to celebrate a football win, or the night of a 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:53.240 major election, or a religious festival. But huge protests like 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.000 this for Dafne are a signal that the era of 0:01:56.080 --> 0:02:01.000 quiet public acceptance is now over, maybe forever. And the 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:05.440 place where disgrieving, angry crowd is marching to is not 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:09.919 just any piazza in Valletta. The monumental, assidual guir or 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:14.040 great siege monument is our Lincoln Memorial, our Travalgar Square, 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.600 the symbolic heart of the capital. It commemorates the Great 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:21.080 Siege of fifteen sixty five, when the Ottoman Empire tried 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.240 and failed to conquer this land, a marker of the 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.120 greatest crisis that Mota faes in the last five hundred years, 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.760 a time when forces of destruction threatened and were resisted. 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.239 As the crowd reaches the statues, they throng around, circling them, 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.560 filling the space. People begin laying candles on the ground, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:47.519 the flickering light from so many candles illuminating the foundations 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:51.280 of the old stone. People bring photos of Daphne and 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.000 lay them down to other Scribbled personal notes of remembrance 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.720 on cards and tape them to the monument. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.000 And I'm here too with my friends and family, amazed 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.919 at how many people have turned out today. By reclaiming 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:09.120 this holy space and making it our space, Deafhne's space, 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.800 we are hoping to show that a new siege has begun, 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.480 that we are once again under threat as a nation. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.760 Protests like this are the first signs that Deafney will 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.040 be even more influential after her murder than she had 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:23.799 been before it. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.560 Do you remember when you first heard that Daphne had 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.080 been murdered? Manwhell I do? 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:35.440 And of course the first reaction is incredulity, disbelief. But 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.240 after the horror began to sink in and I realized 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.080 that it must be true, there was another realization. I 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:43.840 knew that this would be a turning point for the 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:48.520 whole country, and very possibly a turning point away from democracy. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.200 I was in London at the offices of BBC's Newsnight, 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.240 where I was working at the time. When the news broke. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.440 There was a kind of silence in the office, a 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.520 sense that the life of a great reporter had been 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.120 snuffed out. And then the editor of the day says, 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:12.640 get yourself to Malta now and I move, but I 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.200 felt a sense of foreboding. I'm used to going to 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:20.760 bad places, but a journalist being blown up in Malta 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.680 it's where people go on holiday, for heaven's sake. I 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.479 spent many years reporting on Vladimir Putin's Russia, and for 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.000 me that seemed like the nearest comparison in terms of 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:37.440 the shamelessness of the crime, And just like a Kremlin killing, 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.360 it was both a murder, the wiping out of an 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:46.240 opponent and a warning to others. Using a car bomb 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.200 in broad daylight on a public road to silence a 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:55.279 reporter is a statement. It's a declaration of power. We 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.800 can get away with anything. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.039 I had time to think. That's how it felt for 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.640 me too, But this was in Moscow or Saint Petersburg. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:10.760 It was a democratic EU country. I, like many other people, 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.159 still remember where I was and what I was doing. 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.240 No matter how much time passes, you do remember. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.000 This is Jason ot So Party, a lawyer and former 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.240 politician and an important player on what happens after Daphanie's death. 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.640 He is a former MP for Molta's main opposition party, 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.320 the Nationalists, and also one of Daphanie's most famous allies 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.520 inside Parliament, known as a big campaigner against the government. 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:38.440 Corruption picture a multi's version of the actor Stanley Tucci. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:43.520 Heavily framed, glasses, bald head with an intense, subsessive interest 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.800 in corruption and might call a crime. You can see 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.120 why Jason makes a good lawyer. He has a necessary 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.560 forensic memory for detail and the details of the day 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.560 Daphney died, as something he has no difficulty recalling. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.800 So about five and that's passed. Three in the afternoon, 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:07.440 I started getting a floody of phone calls and I 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:12.920 remember the first one was a police officer. His voice 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:18.039 was crackling with emotion and he was crying and he 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:22.160 was telling me in bits and pieces they've killed her, 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:28.000 They've killed her, murdered. Whilst I was on this call, 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.520 at the same time, I had a number of other 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:36.880 people trying to get through to me. I was shaking, 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:41.760 I remember, vividly shaking. It was a mixture of anger 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:42.360 and fear. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.000 And later that day, as the full scope of the 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:52.000 crime became clear, another phone call came through from Daphney's husband, Peter, and. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.400 Just imagine the husband of Deafney calling me on my 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:59.560 mobile at the same time. You know what's happening all 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:04.960 around you, and I froze. I admit I froze. I 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:13.360 didn't know what to say. I simply stammered. Bottom line, 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:21.200 Peter asked me if I could represent the family represent legally. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.840 Already, within hours of her death, Peter and her sons 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.120 were aware of the unequal battle they would be fighting 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:31.080 to get justice. As we know, definitely had powerful enemies, 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.360 and even those not directly involved in her death had 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:38.440 incentives to assist in raising her legacy. In other words, 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.800 Peter already fears the official channels won't deliver justice. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:47.920 Peter told me, Jason, we do not trust the due 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:54.360 to the magistrate to contact an impartial, independent, objective, unbiased inquiry, 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:59.520 and the very first few minutes hours are pretty critical 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:00.480 in such a crime. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.480 So what's wrong with the duty magistrate In Malta? 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.600 The magistrate is crucial of a murder is to be 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.520 correctly and professionally investigated. In the multi system, there is 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.960 always a magistrate on duty, a senior legal official whose 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.520 job it is to take charge of and preserve evidence 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.880 when a serious crime is committed. It's a matter of 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.000 timing that determines which magistrate will be assigned to which case. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.880 Definitely had written about a lot of Malta's judges and 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:33.120 lawyers during her career, and that day's magistrate, Consuelorea, had 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.800 come up a lot in defnine work, and as usual, 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:38.439 it was strongly. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:42.040 Opinionated April thirteenth, twenty ten the silly life and shallow 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.800 values of Consuelo Hera October eighteenth, twenty ten. It's official 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.040 magistrate Herera is not to be trusted in a twelfth, 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.719 twenty eleven, giving Consuelo Herrera and her Keystone cops a 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:53.680 run for their money. 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.880 Not very diplomatic, and those are some of the more 0:08:57.920 --> 0:08:59.959 polite things that Definitely wrote about the magist. 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:00.880 Really. 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.840 In fact, Consul Herrera had already sued Daphnely for libel, 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.800 although she ultimately withdrew the claim. But on the day 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.280 that Daphne died, it was Consuelo Herrera who was assigned 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.480 to secure the murder scene, appoint court experts, and take 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:18.480 charge of the evidence. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.040 So this is Jason as the party's first task. From 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:27.600 Peter Carouina, Galicia and Daphne's sons get Magistrate Cherry Herrera 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.320 of the case. Before any legs go cold, and while 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.920 the evidence is still there to be gathered, get her 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:39.319 off the case, whatever it takes. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:45.040 I would say, round about eight o'clock, half past eight 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:49.240 in the evening. I meet them in the lobby and 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:50.040 the entrance. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.960 The very same evening as Daphnie's murder. The magistrate summons 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.320 the family to the courthouse. The fight to have the 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.440 magistrate replaced has already begun. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.440 One has to remember that the law courts at that 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:08.760 moment were practically deserted, completely dark, because of course it's 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:14.720 after office hours, so it's completely surreal, silent and aching 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:16.600 to a symmetry. 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.160 At this after hours meeting at the law courts are 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.640 Jason as party and from the family Daphne's sister Colin, 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:28.160 Daphne's husband Peter, and Matthew, Dafnie's eldest son, the son 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.360 who was the first on the scene when Defne was killed. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.199 It's still just hours since Daphanie's murder. Even to get 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.640 to the courthouse, the family had to drive right past 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.000 the bomb site near their house. 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.720 And again I must admit I didn't know what to say. 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:50.080 I see these two gentlemen in front of me. One 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:55.720 has just seen five hours before his mother being butchered 0:10:56.679 --> 0:11:02.920 in front of his eyes, and so I hugged Peter 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:08.680 and Matthew couldn't utter a word, but I do remember 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:15.400 saying to myself feeling a sense of sincere big admiration, 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:22.040 And they were there, standing upright, very stoic, loucid. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.439 The magistrate's office is open out of hours because of 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.800 Daphnie's death. As they wait to be called, they can 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.599 see senior government officials and politicians being called in for 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:40.120 meetings with the magistrate, but Daphne's closest relatives, they are 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:41.920 made to wait in the lobby. 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.520 And then as they wait, yet a number of Daphane's 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.600 old enemies arrives. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.840 And at one point we see the then Economy Minister 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:55.680 Chris Cardona entering the law courts because he had been 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.520 summoned to testify by the inquiring magistrate. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.800 It's fair to say that Jason at Soparadi is not 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.160 a fan of mister Cardona. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.679 Chris Cardona sleazy character well known in criminal circus. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.760 Daphne's investigations into Cardona's conduct are famous across the island, 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.640 and her stories about him have already damaged his future 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:21.079 as a major player in multice politics at this point, 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.439 Cardona is one of the many people who was suing 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:24.400 Deafne for libel. 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:29.880 He was pacing up and down the corridor. I remember 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:34.840 it vividly. He was very, very nervous, very nervous. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.719 What's the story behind the story here? Why is a 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.720 cabinet minister present at a murder inquiry and why is 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:46.800 he so nervous. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.960 Earlier that evening, Cardona had been officially as summoned by 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:55.400 the authorities investigating Daphne's murder. He was not arrested and 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.360 left soon after. He has since said in an interview 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.280 with the Times of Malta that given his hit history 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:04.040 of clashes with Daphne, it was common sense to call 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.360 him in. Chris Cardona did not respond to requests for 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:11.120 an interview for this podcast, and he has consistently denied 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:16.080 being involved in Daphne's murder in any way. But on 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.920 this night in twenty seventeen, Jason Natza, party and Daphne's 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.120 family were still focused on trying to see if a 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:24.840 different magistrate could be chosen. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.040 We waited until close to eleven pm. By that time 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.960 there had been no core degree and I was starting 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:38.160 to become extremely angry because there were two people who, 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:42.920 instead of mourning their loved one who had been assassinated 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:48.440 some hours before, they were there all alone in the 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:53.960 dark entrance, silent, complete silence of the law cords. So 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.120 I knocked on the door of the sitting magistrate, of 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.400 the duty magistrate, and thusked her deputy registrar, if she 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:04.600 could kindly be so kind as to us, the inquiring magistrate, 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:09.160 to have some mercy and the decency for these two 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:14.080 gentlemen to be allowed to go home. She came back 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:17.600 to me and told me that we could leave and 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:22.560 the decision would be delivered on the following day. 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.600 And why is this so important to Jason as a 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.640 party and Dafnie's family. 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.960 From uther party's viewpoint, it sets the tone. It's like 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.960 the magistrate is telling the family, come to us while 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.600 you are grieving, and then you can wait, even as 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.360 the Maltese public is reeling in shock, even as daphnie 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.360 enemies are called in first to be briefed or give statements. 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:50.200 You the family can wait. But yes, there is a 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.320 small success. The next day, a different magistrate is chosen. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:58.040 I am still sad and upset. That so much time 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:02.360 had elapsed, and especially the emotional toll on the family, 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:03.720 And how. 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:08.760 Did the single most important politician on Malta who featured 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.800 in Daphanese journalism react to her murder. Here is Joseph 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:15.520 muskat the then Prime Minister. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.440 We will leave no stone unturned. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.400 In the video you can see him doing his best 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:29.680 portraying concern, righteous indignation, His body language result the kind 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:36.080 of political performance that definitely used merciless. But he also 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.920 makes it clear that Daphne's murder is a law enforcement question, 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.920 not a political crisis, and that his government does not 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:45.800 have a case to answer in Daphanes's death. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.880 There is one concrete proposal from the government, the promise 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.280 of a one million euro reward about a million dollars 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.280 for information leading to the arrest of the killers. Daphne's 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.800 family are invited to endorse this offer, but the decline. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.080 The family believe that if they go along with the 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.760 reward that might be used against them, that it might 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.080 be used to claim that the family trust Prime Minister 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:14.560 Joseph Muskett's plan to find their mother's killers, and at 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.640 this stage the family feel far from confidence in his 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:22.320 abilities or his willingness to solve the murder. After the 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.120 family refused to participate in the reward scheme, it seems 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.120 to be quietly forgotten. To date, no one has ever 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.680 claimed or received any of the reward money. 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:36.960 What I can tell you is that announcement that supposedly 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:44.440 incentive was given very little prominence by the government's channels. 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:50.200 It was literally left by the side. I doubt whether 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.640 it was mentioned ever again. If I remember correct, it 0:16:54.680 --> 0:17:00.120 was only mentioned once. Definitely not more than twice. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.320 The government continue to make a public show of taking 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.720 Daphne's murder seriously while trying to get the news agenda 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.320 back to other topics. But despite their efforts, the crisis 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.800 management isn't working. This isn't going to be just a 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.720 passing news event. The anger around Daphne's death is building, 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:17.600 not fading. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:30.480 Protests in Daphne's memory at the Great Siege Monument become 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:34.439 a regular ritual. An international concern about freedom of the 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.760 press in Malta also grows. 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.920 At the start of November, two weeks after her death, 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.440 eight of the world's largest news organizations right to the 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.840 Vice President of the European Commission, urging him to investigate 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.600 her murder and the independence of the media in Malta. 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.840 Politicians like Joseph Muscat and Chris Cardona need to be 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.639 seen to be mourning the woman that had previously called 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.000 a liar and a gossip, who they had previously seen 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:01.320 sued for libel. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.359 And all comes to a head on the third of November. 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.520 At Daphne's funeral, more than a thousand people gather to 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.359 pay their final respects to Daphanie at the Rotunda perish 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.520 Church in the town of Mosta. Flags are fown at 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.720 half mast on government buildings and law courts across the country. 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.560 The family refused to let Senia government figures, including the 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:33.640 Prime Minister. At ten during the ceremony, Daphne's son Matthew 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.600 suddenly rips a wreath that has been left as a 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.440 tribute to his mother. He furiously throws it to one side. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.000 He has realized the wreath is a gift from Morta 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:46.760 speaker of the House of Parliament, angelofar Ruja, the very 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:50.400 same man who was Daphne's arresting officer when she was nineteen. 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.080 And at that moment, as Matthew tears the reef apart, 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.840 it's clear that there is no chance of reconciliation between 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.840 Daphne's grieving family Multi's political establishment. 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.680 But all this public anger and sorrow isn't yet being 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:10.720 channeled into finding who actually killed Dafni Arwana Galizia, or 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.760 to discovering whether any of Malta's political leaders played any 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:14.840 role in her murder. 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.359 We do know that the assassins, the men on the 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.600 ground who planted and detonated the bomb that killed her, 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:29.480 are following a careful routine at this point. 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:34.320 Right after the assassination, Chinese George disposed of his Berner 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.440 phone in the way he had on previous occasions, by 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.679 throwing it into the harbor water next to the so 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.040 called Potato shed, the warehouse that the gang used to 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:47.320 hang out in. The shed functions like their office, equipped 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:51.120 with armchairs, a fridge, and the guard dog. It's where 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:52.840 people go when they want to ask the gang for 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.639 help with a problem. And we know that Chinese George 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:58.920 threw his Berner phone into the harbor by the shed 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.320 because it turns out to do w There isn't deb deep, 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:03.840 not too deep for a diverse to surget. 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:07.240 We also know that the killers are shocked just how 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.639 big the political backlash to the murder. The murder they'd 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:15.280 committed is murders like the Carmel Kirkop drive by shooting 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.639 never made it to the international press and quickly faded 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:22.480 from view even in Malta. After those murders there were 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.919 no public protests, still less a funeral on the telly. 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.480 There are good reasons to be optimistic at this point 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:35.080 about smoking out the assassins. A car bomb triggered by 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:39.240 a mobile phone leaves a loss of forensic evidence, and 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.640 with such a professionally organized killing, the number of possible 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:44.400 culprits in Malta is limited. 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:50.680 That there's just the purely investigative forensic sidle, the politics 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:53.000 of solving serious crimes and more that are a little 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.600 more complex than that, As we're heard in the case 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:59.000 of the drive by murder of carmelker Cop. Professional contract 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:03.320 killings don't get carefully investigated in Malta, if they get 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.800 investigated at all. If anyone is punished for a contract killing, 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:10.280 it will be within the criminal fraternity tit for tat. 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:13.959 So the family are not optimistic about finding Daphnese assassins, 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:18.440 let alone discovering whoever ordered the bombing, but Here's where 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:21.880 daphnis family and supporters experience a piece of good luck. 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:25.600 It happens that the head of Malta's counter terrorism unit 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:29.560 is more diligent than some of his colleagues, and he 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:34.119 has a powerful context book. This is Jason, not so pridy. 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:41.320 He had immediately after Daphnie's assassination, immediately took the initiative 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:46.600 to contact his US counterparts in Rome, and thanks to 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:50.960 the very close working relationship he had with them, the 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:57.240 balls were set in motion for the FBI guys to come. 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:02.480 Over, including international andrism experts. It happens that an FBI 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:05.679 anti terrorism team is in Rome for a training exercise 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:08.359 and they arrive in Malta within twenty four hours of 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:12.119 Dafney's death. There is also a team of investigators from 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.760 the Netherlands who joined the case and Europol. The use 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:20.240 organized crime and terrorism agency assists two and these international 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:23.360 teams offer two things our local forces do not have, 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:29.760 world class forensic technology and indifference to multice politics. 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:34.760 And if I remember correctly, one of the FBI guys 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:40.360 had been involved in solving the Boston Meriton bombing. As 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:43.200 a result of the triangulation of data. 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.679 And knowing that car bombs are often triggered using SIM cards. 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:49.920 The FBI team got to work on recovering any traces 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:51.680 that the killer cell phones might have left. 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:54.280 They got hold of all the data that was passing 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:59.280 through two or three, if I remember correctly, mobile communications 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:03.520 towers the hamlet of Pittnea and in the vicinity. 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:07.919 That's a huge amount of data, even in a rural area. 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:11.520 Normally it would be beyond the capabilities of multi law enforcement. 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.520 How welcome this foreign help was to some in joys 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:17.320 of Moscow's government is not clear. 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:22.480 They would eventually manage to narrow down all the thousands 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:25.680 of phone calls and messages and data that was being 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:29.200 transmitted in the vicinity of Pittnea at the time. At 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:33.040 the precise time of Daphne's assassination. 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:37.360 And as we know, the calais had been sloppy, particularly 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:42.080 Chinese George de Georgia waiting on the boat, he had 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:46.480 used his personal cell phone registered in his name to 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:48.879 make calls requesting a credit top up for one of 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:49.800 his burner phones. 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:53.720 Out of all those tens of thousands of phone calls 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:58.400 and text messages and WhatsApp messages, what have you three 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:03.359 numbers which would eventually lead to three men. 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:08.760 The assassins Vincent Kough, Chinese George and his brother Alfred Deban. 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:13.199 Police already know these men. Their role as players in 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:19.199 the underworld was an open secret, and so with the 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:23.040 FBI's evidence, Malta Security services begin to plan a heavily 0:24:23.119 --> 0:24:26.800 armed surprise raid what's known as a SWAT raid, a 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:29.560 swoop that will enable them to seize all three men 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:32.200 and show the world that Malta is capable of the 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:34.280 size of action to protect its citizens. 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:40.639 The plan is discussed in a briefing for the Prime 0:24:40.640 --> 0:24:44.919 Minister and some of his closest advisers. The date for 0:24:44.960 --> 0:24:49.240 the SWAT raid is set December the ninth, less than 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:50.880 two months after Daphne's death. 0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:58.960 There is actual footage of the raid as it happened 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:01.240 the Government SAI and in a joint operation by the 0:25:01.359 --> 0:25:05.240 Armed Forces, the Malta Security Services and the Multi Police Force. 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:07.560 Part of the video is from the point of view 0:25:07.600 --> 0:25:11.040 of one soldier approaching the Keyside building from the sea 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:14.360 in a dingy. You can see his assault rifle resting 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:17.920 on the side of the boat. The area looks run down, 0:25:18.000 --> 0:25:23.480 decrepit post industrial sheds with broken roofs, wooden warehouses with 0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:24.639 broken windows. 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:27.920 As they approach the potato shed, you can see officers 0:25:27.920 --> 0:25:31.960 climbing up onto the keyside, guns drawn and gesturing for 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:35.240 someone inside to get down on the floor. It's filmed 0:25:35.240 --> 0:25:38.360 to be deliberately dramatic, almost in the style of Call 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:41.440 of Duty video games, and the authorities have made sure 0:25:41.480 --> 0:25:44.760 to get multiple camera angles. There's even an overhead drawn 0:25:44.840 --> 0:25:48.240 shot showing a second swat team entering from the opposite side. 0:25:49.840 --> 0:25:52.560 Eventually you see all three of the suspects handcuffed and 0:25:52.680 --> 0:25:57.560 lying on the floor of the potato shed. Elsewhere in Malta, 0:25:57.760 --> 0:26:00.679 other men suspected of involvement and supply the bomb were 0:26:00.720 --> 0:26:01.520 also arrested. 0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:07.120 But there is something odd about this surprise shock rate 0:26:07.720 --> 0:26:11.679 by the authorities, almost as if the criminals don't seem 0:26:11.720 --> 0:26:15.680 that surprised or shocked, almost as if they had known 0:26:16.080 --> 0:26:17.280 the cops were coming. 0:26:18.080 --> 0:26:24.840