Protesting on Friday evening, activists from Occupy Justice called on the Attorney General to ‘pack up and go’, in reference to a recent blunder which led to a bribery acquittal for Yorgen Fenech’s lawyers.
The activists left a number of suitcases outside the Attorney General’s office after Charles Mercieca and Gianluca Caruana Curran had been charged by police of attempting to bribe Times of Malta journalist Ivan Martin. They attempted to hand him hundreds of euros at the end of a meeting.
The charges were cleared after the magistrate ruled the relevant offence was not properly indicated by Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg. The Attorney General was called on by the IGM to take responsibility as it qualified the criminal officer wrongly, forcing the magistrate to clear the lawyers of attempted bribery.
In a memo, the activists said that Malta urgently needs independent, courageous and competent people in key positions who ‘are prepared to do their job without fear or favour’.
‘You are failing Malta at a critical point in her history, and we’ve had enough. Pack your bags and go.’
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