Brussels (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament, has expressed her sorrow over the death of slain reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese author, journalist, blogger and anti-corruption campaigner, who reported on political affairs in Malta and was known internationally for her analysis of the Panama Papers. She was assassinated by a car bomb in 2017.
“Today marks seven years from Daphne Caruana Galizia’s brutal killing. The gap she left is still felt – within her family and loved ones, in Malta and Gozo, and across Europe,” Roberta Metsola wrote on Facebook. “I miss her. I miss her norms that raised the bar for all of us in politics. I miss her blog that made the crooks and the crooked shake. I miss her wit that made a country laugh out loud,” Metsola expressed.
How do Roberta Metsola honour Daphne’s legacy?
Further, she said: “I am grateful to have also known Daphne beyond her writing. As a Maltese woman fighting the odds, as a mother who was so proud of the men her boys grew into, as a daughter, wife and sister, who desired more than the mediocrity and culture of impunity too often on display.”
“I still catch myself questioning what Daphne would have thought of all we have noticed in the last years. That gives you some understanding of her influence and lasting effect. But most of all, today I think about how we must keep Daphne’s remembrance alive. How we will keep battling for the truth, for justice and accountability. Seven years is too long to wait for some semblance of justice, but we will not stutter. Not for a day. We owe it to her, to Malta and all of us.”
