SocietyOutrage mounts in Malta after acquittal over journalist's murder

Hundreds demonstrated in Valletta after a wealthy businessman was acquitted of masterminding the 2017 car-bomb murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Maltese civil society groups and international media freedom organisations reacted with outrage. The opposition Nationalist Party is seeking a special parliamentary session to discuss the case.

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