# Outrage mounts in Malta after acquittal over journalist's murder

https://mins.news/en/video/43992

- France 24 English, 2026-09-03 15:07 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veydfbg_1Cc

> 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 condemned the verdict, while the opposition Nationalist Party called for parliament to return from its summer recess.

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