# Malta acquits tycoon Yorgen Fenech in journalist’s murder case

https://mins.news/en/item/42736

- France 24, 2026-09-02 21:56 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260902-maltese-tycoon-acquitted-reporter-murder

> A Maltese court acquitted tycoon Yorgen Fenech on Wednesday of orchestrating the 2017 car-bomb killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Her family and press-freedom advocates condemned the verdict, with her son calling it a “terrible decision.”

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