Justice Minister Jonathan Attard revealed in parliament that the number of pending magisterial inquiries stands at 1,698.
Answering questions made by Nationalist MP Jerome Caruana Cilia, the minister revealed that one of the inquiries goes back to 1979.
Information tabled in parliament showed that there is one inquiry also pending from each of the years 1992, 1991, 1990, 1977 and 1989.
There are also four pending date from 2005, one from 2006, six inquiries from 2009,15 from 2011, 44 from 2016, 88 from 2017, 128 from 2018 and 157 from 2019.
Meanwhile, 172 launched in 2020 are underway, another 275 for 2021, 574 for 2022 and 186 for this year.
This of course comes as protests surround the case of Jean Paul Sofia, for whom a magisterial inquiry was launched despite calls for a public inquiry.
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