Daphne Caruana Galizia’s son tries to make sense of her murder
Malta’s courageous journalist, assassinated in 2017, has spotlighted the country’s corruption
When Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist, was assassinated by a car bomb in 2017, the 53-year-old had been close to uncovering a huge government scandal (subsequently exposed by a journalist collective named in her memory). It involved ministers, a power-station contract and an alleged system of kickbacks, which was said to have cost Maltese taxpayers millions.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Murder, she wrote”
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