Five years after the fatal bombing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, two brothers have been found guilty of murder in Malta. A judge sentenced the two to 40 years in prison on the very first day of the trial in the capital Valletta. After a few hours of trial, the brothers surprisingly pleaded guilty to killing the blogger with a car bomb on October 16, 2017.
Caruana Galizia had contributed to revelations about corruption in the EU country. The murder caused international outrage.
Had the jury found it that morning, the brothers could have been sentenced to life in prison.
A third hit man and a taxi driver had already confessed to the two. The taxi driver claimed to have acted as an intermediary between the killers and a well-known businessman who had ordered the murder. That entrepreneur and millionaire is in jail awaiting trial. He denies the allegations.
Source: Krone
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