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EN translation of the summary clip:

When authorities which are supposed to tear apart criminal operations instead enforce a silence worthy of the worst mafia, silence itself becomes a weapon.

Every day, this weapon is muting democracy’s cries for help with a chloroform rag.

In today’s hearing in the case of the state v disgraced former prime minister Joseph Muscat and the other accused, we didn’t learn much that is new. So, we went out of our way to learn more.

Due to a procedural mistake by the prosecution, today we heard from just two witnesses in about an hour, even though there were at least three hours available for this hearing.

We already heard what these two witnesses had to say in the prima facie phase, in which the magistrate had concluded that there is enough preliminary evidence to move to the present phase.

In brief, we first heard from former Projects Malta CEO William Wait as well as current Malta Enterprise CEO George Gregory. Both Wait and Gregory seem to suffer from faltering memory and a certain flexibility with their sense of accountability.

I say so because today, both of them yet again insisted that, in spite of the executive position they previously occupied, they do not remember basic details about the work they were supposed to have carried out and that they had nothing to do with the final decision to award three hospitals to a bunch of fraudsters.

We could stop today’s video here; however, the last time you heard from us, we promised you that we will chase the police force about very serious questions which were raised during last week’s hearing.

We asked the police to tell us whether what court expert Sam Sittlington testified about last week is true – specifically, what he said about the conduct of police commissioner Angelo Gafa’ and former deputy commissioner Alexandra Mamo.

Is it true that Gafa’ asked Sittlington to come up with a training programme for new recruits only to then cut the discussion short without any explanation?

How do Joseph Muscat and his lawyers know about sensitive, internal police discussions?

Is the police commissioner willing to publicly explain what happened, first and foremost to eliminate all suspicions that Sittlington was being set up?

In spite of the fact that we sent questions in writing to the police’s spokesperson and Gafa’ directly, we did not receive a response. So, we decided to call them today and see what happens.

Well, you heard it with your own ears this time. Professional silence from Mamo, and grave silence from Gafa’.

Never mind. Join us tomorrow after the next hearing, and we’ll try again.

The truth cannot remain hidden.

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