In a joint statement, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and the United Nations on Wednesday 16 October called on the Maltese authorities to pursue “in a prompt, effective, independent and impartial manner” the public inquiry (see EUROPE 12333/17) into the attack that killed journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia (see EUROPE 11885/2).
Two years after the murder, three men were arrested, but their trial has not yet taken place and there is no way to identify their sponsors, say Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Harlem Désir, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression and Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions.
“The Maltese government owes an answer to Daphne, her family, Maltese society and all journalists around the world”, they conclude.
Civil society has also mobilised to pay tribute to her. In a statement, 12 organisations, including Reporters Without Borders, Transparency International, and the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), urged the Maltese authorities to “ensure that this is the very last anniversary that passes without full justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia”. “The government has full confidence in the ongoing work of the investigators and the independent inquiring magistrate”, the Maltese authorities said.
On the same day, in Brussels, a rally was organised in her memory. (Original version in French by Véronique Leblanc and Marion Fontana)