Għal dawk li jaħsbu li fi żmien il-PN il-pajjiż kien ġenna tal-art għadkom ma tafux kemm sejrin żball. Il-Partit Laburista wiret pajjiż mkisser f’kull sens tal-kelma.
John Rizzo
John Rizzo spiċċa minn Kummissarju fl-2013 u ħalla warajh sitwazzjoni bla kontroll bi kriminali jitqatlu bejniethom u joqtlu lil xulxin.
Meta l-Labour rebaħ l-elezzjoni 2013, il-kriminalità kienet ħuġġieġa. U ħuġġieġa ma titfihiex kif ġieb u laħaq.
Silta mil-Maltatoday –
In late 2011, three masked and heavily-armed men walked into a Żebbuġ warehouse owned by a major narcotics smuggler.
With no shots fired, they walked out with a 20-kilogram shipment of cocaine that police investigators say had an estimated street value of €1.4 million.
But this drug heist, which for the past nine years went unreported, is believed to have been the last straw in brewing gangland tensions which triggered a series of violent killings that shocked the country.
It was in the last week of November 2011, that a heist was carried out on suspected trafficker Raymond Caruana’s warehouse along the Żebbug bypass.
The thieves, three masked men, stole around 20 kilos of cocaine destined to be shipped out of Malta again.
At the time, Caruana was considered a major player in the underworld, according to police sources. Caruana had suspected three known criminals and close associates of his of carrying out the heist: Paul Degabriele, a former soldier known as ‘is-Suldat’, Joseph Cutajar known as ‘il-Lion’, and Alfred Degiorgio known as ‘il-Fulu’ – the latter charged with carrying out the car bomb that killed Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Police believe Caruana, furious over the betrayal and theft of the drugs, had hired two hitmen, a 32-year-old from Għaxaq, and another 32-year-old of Fgura to murder il-Lion, whom he suspected of organising the cocaine robbery. Towards the end of 2012, the hitmen planned to shoot him in an underground complex of Marsascala garages, but the hit went awry and il-Lion, known to carry a concealed weapon, shot his way out and killed the two men.
A bomb was also found under a car belonging to is-Suldat. The device, however, did not detonate. Investigators believed that, just like the assassins sent to kill il-Lion, the bomb had been placed there as payback for the stolen cocaine.
Meanwhile, il-Lion posted bail for shooting the would-be assassins sent to kill him. But he was shot dead soon in December 2012, as he emerged from his car in Mosta. He was shot 12 times with a Kalashnikov assault rifle in what was described by police sources as a professional hired hit.
Sources said is-Suldat had approached the police with information saying the explosive had originated from a “Żejtun man”. In May 2013, is-Suldat, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Marsa.
