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Updated - Activists' posters: Simon Busuttil summoned by police to explain use of personal car

Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 10:27 Last update: about 7 years ago

Former Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil has been summoned by the police to explain why his car was used by activists to hang up posters regarding the investigation into the killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

“I have been summoned to the Valletta Police Station, Thursday 3PM, to answer Questions on the alleged use of my personal car to carry these posters. Because, you know, for the Commissioner of Police this is more VIP than interrogating Chris Cardona or Keith Schembri,” Busuttil wrote on Facebook.

The pressure group Occupy Justice on Sunday night put up posters outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Castille and Pilatus Bank, six months to the day since the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

In a statement, Partit Demokratiku questioned the use of police resources in its summons to PN MP Simon Busuttil, and doubts if there are good intentions at play which intend to uphold the law impartially and blindly.

“If a dissenter can be troubled so casually over a freedom of speech issue, while allegations of corruption at higher levels do not warrant a Police summons, then indeed all is it all well with the Rule of Law?

PD said it supported Hon Dr Simon Busuttil in his endeavors to seek justice.

Opposition Leader Adrian Delia also expressed support in a tweet (below).


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