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Speaker 1: A note to listeners, this episode contains graphic descriptions of violence.

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Speaker 2: There is corruption everywhere in the world, literally everywhere and

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Speaker 2: at every level. The difference is that in Malta people

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Speaker 2: have a corrupt attitude towards corruption. They blanket they tolerate it.

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Speaker 2: The powers are not really separate institutions a week. The

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Speaker 2: police operate as an extension of the government. Judges and

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Speaker 2: magistrates are politically appointed. It's a dreadful situation, ripe and

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Speaker 2: designed for abuse and corruption.

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Speaker 3: So Manuel, where are we? What we're looking at?

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Speaker 1: We're in the very middle of the Live Island, the

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Speaker 1: small hamlet of Bignia, about one hundred farmers this year.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's dry here, but the tree feels it

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Speaker 3: was quite a busy road, a line of houses on

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Speaker 1: John and I are in maltawn on a country road

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Speaker 1: about half an hour's drive from the capital, Valletta. At

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Speaker 1: the end of the last episode, we heard how a

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Speaker 1: team of contract killers were here watching Daphne through her

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Speaker 1: windows with her rifle. But on that evening they didn't fire.

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Speaker 1: At the very last minute. Their plan hit a snack.

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Speaker 1: According to courtrum testimony, just Before the shot could be taken,

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Speaker 1: getaway driver Chinese George de Georgio, learned there was a

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Speaker 1: roadblock on some of the roads leading to Dafani's home.

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Speaker 1: An escape by car suddenly seemed too risky, so the

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Speaker 1: plan is aborted.

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Speaker 3: Instead, they decide they will carry out the hit using

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Speaker 3: a different method, but just as deadly. Over to our

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Speaker 3: left can see the sea, and then just there there's

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Speaker 1: Who lives here, well, definitely Carmegality. I lived here, her

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Speaker 1: family still lives here. It's a house that overlooks the

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Speaker 1: This little hamlet is mostly a farming community, and she

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Speaker 3: Ridge, So this ridge here, Where were the spots.

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Speaker 1: Is They're right across so through the trees in a

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Speaker 1: way that wouldn't be visible to us from here, but

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Speaker 1: they could see us from there. She was being spotted

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Speaker 1: and watched by the people who are planning to kill her.

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Speaker 3: And it's punishingly hot. We're actually standing in the shade,

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Speaker 1: And I think you're seeing just the atmosphere that would

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Speaker 1: have been there on the day sixteenth October twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: It was a hot day like this. October is the

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Speaker 1: tail end of summer, but the landscape is dry, the

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Speaker 1: heat is on, and Dephnely was running an afternoon errand

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Speaker 1: on a day just like today.

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Speaker 3: From my hard podcast topic Studios in Vespucci.

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Speaker 1: I'm John Sweeney and I'm Manuel Delia and this is

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Speaker 1: Crooks Everywhere, Episode two.

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Speaker 3: The woman who spoke out.

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Speaker 4: Ter Daphne was a year older. She's the eldest of

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Speaker 4: us four. We used to share a bedroom when we

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Speaker 4: were children and up to about the age of twelve

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Speaker 4: thirteen on.

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Speaker 1: A small island. A lot of people thought they knew

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Speaker 1: a big personal little like Daphne, but her sister Corinne

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Speaker 1: saw a different side.

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Speaker 4: The strongest memory I think books and reading writing. She

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Speaker 4: didn't care for much else, you know, especially at school.

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Speaker 4: She just loved reading and writing.

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Speaker 1: This would be the mid seventies definitely, as a young teenager.

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Speaker 1: Deafney's son Paul has written a biography of his mother.

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Speaker 1: It describes her so hungry for reading matter that she

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Speaker 1: forms her own book club in school, sharing British children's

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Speaker 1: literature like Enid Blyton Exotic Adventures from afar off Land.

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Speaker 4: But the other thing I suppose, rather than books alone,

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Speaker 4: well the way I mean it's a spre internet. Of course.

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Speaker 1: Deafnely was born the same year that Malta stopped being

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Speaker 1: a British colony nineteen sixty four. Let's say a more traditional.

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Speaker 4: Time, such as the time of austerity. In a postcolonial

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Speaker 4: It just didn't happen. I mean, we grew up in

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Speaker 1: Back in the seventies and eighties. Who are still a

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Speaker 1: of socialism, which made luxuries like foreign travel or teenage

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Speaker 3: With the British Empire and all that. I mean, no

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Speaker 3: one likes to be associated with all that gasslyl colonial nonsense, right.

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Speaker 1: Right, and these things matter. There are deep social and

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Speaker 1: cultural divides that still run through our whole culture and

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Speaker 3: The way her sister Koran tells it, even as a teenager,

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Speaker 3: young Daphne was already looking outside Maulta for inspiration, a

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Speaker 3: and Bob Marley, reading British teenage magazines, and it.

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Speaker 4: Was a particular one called Jackie, which was aimed at

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Speaker 1: And the way the country was run at the time

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Speaker 4: It wasn't, let's say, a time of opportunity for teenage girls.

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Speaker 4: That way, education beyond the mandatory first years of education

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Speaker 1: At that time, the socialist government was attempting to force

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Speaker 1: could not control. They felt threatened by that. Forcing church

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Speaker 3: So this is an unusual coalition. Teenage rebellion meets the

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Speaker 1: Deafhney was nineteen at this time and not really political yet.

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Speaker 4: You know, huge crowds of people marched through the streets.

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Speaker 1: Back then, Maltese police were not known for their life

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Speaker 4: Remember one of them punched deafnely and then she and

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Speaker 4: her friends were arrested. And then, you know, it's not

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Speaker 4: like anyone reads you or your rights, and so they knew. Basically,

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Speaker 4: they knew they could do whatever they liked. Human rights

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Speaker 4: as a concept didn't exist for many people. Mike was right.

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine how frightening that must have been for her,

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Speaker 3: but also how scared her parents must have been.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it's a terrifying prospect, both for the person arrested,

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Speaker 4: but even more terrifying if you were on the outside.

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Speaker 1: Definitely claimed that she was forced to sign a pre

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Speaker 1: written confession for assaulting a police officer. When it reached court,

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Speaker 1: she was acquitted of all charges, and the magistrate presiding

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Speaker 3: That is the kind of experience that scarce you for life,

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Speaker 1: Yes, when I imagined nineen year old, definitely, this I

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Speaker 1: think has to be a crossroads in her life. Some

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Speaker 1: people would have learned the lesson to keep their head

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Speaker 1: down from then on, but with definitely, it did the opposite.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it wouldn't say radicalized her, but it also

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Speaker 4: brought home in a very personal way, just how fragile

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Speaker 4: you know fundamental freedoms are, How you know you need

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Speaker 4: to protect, you need to fight back every day. You

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Speaker 1: Granted, Malta being a small place. The same young arresting

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Speaker 1: time quarter of a century later. Definitely was determined to

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Speaker 1: have her say.

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Speaker 2: October seventh, twenty ten. I stand by what I have

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Speaker 2: said for twenty six years. Angelou Farrugia forced me to

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Speaker 2: sign a false confession which he wrote himself.

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Speaker 3: Naturally, this is Daphne's version of what happened, and it

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Speaker 3: should also be noted that definnely lost a libel case

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Speaker 3: related to these claims, although an appeals court held that

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Speaker 1: We should also note that it would have been hard

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Speaker 2: Malta cannot have a prime minister who, in his days

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Speaker 2: as a police inspector, forced a nineteen year old girl

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Speaker 2: to sign a false confession which he himself had written,

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Speaker 2: telling her that if she did not do so, she

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Speaker 3: After young Daphney finishes school, she began also followed the

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Speaker 3: expected path for someone of her background, marriage, starting a family,

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Speaker 3: but also something more surprising. She becomes a journalist, Malta's

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Speaker 1: And that was surprising even for what was by then

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Speaker 1: around the time I started reading newspapers, I obviously didn't

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Speaker 1: a newspaper was new. But I became a fan early on.

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't just that Definnely was a female journalist.

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Speaker 1: It was also that she wrote openly under her own name.

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Speaker 1: Until then, most columnists preferred to stay anonymous.

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Speaker 3: It felt safer, but that wasn't Daphne's style.

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Speaker 5: Well, I started out purely out of my own sense

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Speaker 1: Definitely spoke about this time. This is a rare recorded

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Speaker 5: And I also noticed an absence of columns written by

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Speaker 5: as I read regularly in foreign newspapers. And that's what

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Speaker 5: this is very odd. And the reason Giffen was always

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Speaker 5: that such a column would be impossible in Mortar because

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Speaker 5: it's such a close, closely knit society, and people are

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Speaker 5: afraid to offend others are afraid of stepping on other

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Speaker 5: people's toes, and obviously, if you're going to write a

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Speaker 3: Of course, on a small island, stepping on toes and

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Speaker 3: making enemies can be a risky business. You never know

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Speaker 1: Daphney's writing was a hit. People started to buy the

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Speaker 1: paper purely to read what definitely had to say, to

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Speaker 5: Previously, journalists had tended to be men. In fact, the

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Speaker 1: She's being very modest here. The quality of her writing

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Speaker 3: But not surprisingly, the idea of a strongly opinionated female

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Speaker 4: That became a very difficult time for Defne because she'd

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Speaker 1: I know this myself as a writer on news and

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Speaker 4: But you know when you hear something on the room,

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Speaker 3: A mother dafinitely did her best disguise of pressure she

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Speaker 6: Really thought of my mother as a woman journalist, you know,

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Speaker 3: And Daphne's razor sharp journalism had real world consequences for

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Speaker 6: So I remember coming home from school and there was

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Speaker 3: And on this day when they get home, somethink is

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Speaker 6: And obviously I believed her because I was, you know,

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Speaker 3: The family decided they needed more protection, so they built

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Speaker 4: And there was another ugly incident which came later on.

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Speaker 6: And petrol obviously is explosive, so the idea was that

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Speaker 3: There were other measures that could have been taken, but

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Speaker 6: But in comparison, my parents were on the sort of yeah.

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Speaker 6: You know, if someone wants to kill my mother, they're gonna,

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Speaker 3: But for all this, Daphne's writing doesn't change. Nothing deters

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Speaker 1: And by this time many of Dephanie's regarding themes had

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Speaker 3: Daphnie is, Molta is fatally divided into two opposing camps,

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Speaker 1: On one side, there are the professional classes with a

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Speaker 5: But start off it, I'd like to say that I

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Speaker 1: The same interview from nineteen ninety eight, you can see

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Speaker 5: So you have, on the one hand, you have people

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Speaker 1: And you can also understand why some people saw heretitudes

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Speaker 5: Then on the other hand you have the other cultural block,

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Speaker 5: Once again, it's part of the conflict of cultures. Basic

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Speaker 5: It's totally totally alien to Northern European culture. The nearest

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Speaker 1: It's the afternoon of Monday, sixteenth October twenty seventeen, the

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Speaker 1: end of the long multie summer, two of the hitmen

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Speaker 1: are back overlooking Daphnese house in Benea.

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Speaker 3: As before, we've taken evidence heard in the courtroom and

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Speaker 1: After the plan to kill Daphanie with a sniper shot

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Speaker 3: They're getting pressure from their handler to get the job finished,

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Speaker 3: And on this day, everything finally seems to be coming together.

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Speaker 1: From a hideout across the shallow valley, Alfred Deban and

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Speaker 3: Alfred's brother, Chinese George, is a few miles away, also waiting.

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Speaker 3: He's on his own in a small boat that belongs

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Speaker 1: Inside. Completely unaware, Daphne is at her kitchen table finishing

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Speaker 1: a blog post about the Prime Minister's chief of staff,

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Speaker 1: Keach Cambri Husha calls a crook.

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Speaker 3: At two thirty five pm. She posts the article. It

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Speaker 1: A few minutes later, through the binoculars, Vincent Koff sees

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Speaker 1: But then, at the very last moment, Vincent the cough

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Speaker 3: And then one minute later she returns she's forgotten her checkbook.

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Speaker 3: This time, Jephaney does get in the car. She starts

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Speaker 1: And at that moment, once the car is in motion,

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Speaker 1: road and tries to save his mother, but it is hopeless.

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Speaker 1: Pieces of Daphne's body are strewn across the bomb site.

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Speaker 1: Then two cops in a passing patrol car get out,

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Speaker 1: one of them holding a pitifully small fire extinguisher. Matthew

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Speaker 1: There is nothing they can do. A neighbor and a

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Speaker 1: passing cars gets out starts videoing the scene with his

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Speaker 1: mobile phone. Outrage, Matthew seeses his phone and smashes it

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Speaker 1: across the valley. Alfred de Bean and Vincent de Cough

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Speaker 1: are leaving the observation post and making their way as

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Speaker 1: quickly as possible to a car parked close by, but

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Speaker 1: Alfred de Bean has blundered. They had a strict rule

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Speaker 1: butt at the observation point in a bottle to be

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Speaker 1: taken away to avoid leaving any race. But perhaps in

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Speaker 1: the excitement or just in a moment of carelessness after

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Speaker 1: all the long hours waiting in the sun, Alfred de

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Speaker 1: Bean has let a cigarette butt fall.

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Speaker 3: The cigarette carries irrefusable DNA evidence of his presence at

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Speaker 3: the scene of the crime. The killers are making it

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Speaker 3: so very easy for the investigators, if that is the

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Speaker 3: authorities choose to investigate.

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Speaker 1: And out at sea in his fishing boat, Chinese George

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Speaker 1: has also made a fatal error. Earlier in the day,

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Speaker 1: he realized that one of his Berner phones was short

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Speaker 1: on credit. If he can't make or received calls, the

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Speaker 1: whole murder plot will fail.

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Speaker 3: But he's in a boat out at sea, he can't

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Speaker 3: get a top.

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Speaker 4: Up, so oh I was being smaspituality credit for a

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Speaker 4: telephone lip.

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Speaker 1: Up tamil litop up. That means can you top me up?

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Speaker 1: He calls friends, a couple of friends until someone agrees

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Speaker 1: to top up his burner phone account, and he makes

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Speaker 1: those calls on his personal legit phone.

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Speaker 3: But Chinese George doesn't seem too concerned. After he hears

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Speaker 3: that the car bomb has been successfully detonated, he's in

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Speaker 3: a relax, celebrate removed. He steers the boat backs through

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Speaker 3: the quayside, and he sends another TEX on his personal

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Speaker 3: phone to his Romanian girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: Open a bottle of wine for me, baby.

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Speaker 3: It's good to let a wine breathe before you drink it.

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Speaker 3: No point rushing.

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Speaker 1: It just in time for the first sip. He reaches

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Speaker 1: the shore a job well.

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Speaker 3: Done, or so he thinks. That's next time.

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Speaker 1: Crooks Everywhere is a production of iHeart Podcasts, Topic Studios

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Speaker 1: and Vespucci. It's reported and hosted by me Manuel Delia

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Speaker 1: and John Sweeney. The singer producer is Leo Hornack. The

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Speaker 1: producer is Maddi Hickish. Krish Denesh Kumar is the assistant producer.

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Speaker 1: The story editors are Emma Ederill, Matt Willis and Philippa Geering.

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Speaker 1: The managing producers are Thomas Curry and Rachel Byrne. The

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Speaker 1: voice of Dafnie Karvana Galizia is played by Ciena Miller,

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Speaker 1: acting direction by Christopher Houghten, Maltese voices by Mikhail Basmajan

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Speaker 1: and Pierre Staffrach. The executive producers are Johnny Galvin and

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Speaker 1: Daniel Turken at Vespucci, Christi Gressman at Topic Studios, Katina

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Speaker 1: Norvel and Niki Etoor at iHeart Podcasts, and Cienna Miller.

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Speaker 1: Marketing leader is David Wassermann. Audio recording by Tom Berry

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Speaker 1: at Wardoor Studios. Audio mix and sound design by Joel Cox.

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Speaker 1: Special thanks to Andrew Botchcardona, Alessandra di Crespo, Eddie Isles,

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Speaker 1: and Andrew Krvana Galizia