Police Commissioner Angelo Gafà has explained why he declared that "every person involved" in the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder has been caught and that there was "no evidence that politicians were involved". Malta's most senior police officer had made the comments in February after police arrested two men alleged to have supplied the bomb that killed the journalist in October 2017. Since then, murder hitman Vince Muscat has named former economy minister and Labour deputy leader Chris Cardona, as being behind an aborted attempt to kill the journalist. Muscat also linked former prime minister Joseph Muscat’s chief of staff Keith Schembri to the murder. Answering questions from reporters on Tuesday, the police commissioner stood by his comments, reiterating that “admissible evidence” the police had in hand on February 24 did not indicate politicians’ involvement at the time. “Up until that day, with the evidence we had in hand, it did not result that politicians were involved,” he said, during a press conference on community policing. He pointed out there is a difference between intelligence and evidence that is admissible in court. “Admissible evidence refers to what a person...
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