Representatives of Occupy Justice today planted a 'tree for justice’ with leaves of 500 euro notes and protest letters, in place of the recent chopped down decades-old Holm Oak outside the Upper Barrakka gardens in Valletta, to mark the eight months since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
“The roots of evil are all we are left with,” said #OccupyJustice, a group of activists led by women, “Our message this month is simple: Muscat, Schembri and Mizzi, why don’t you all leave?” said #Occupyjustice, reiterating their claim that in view of the constant stream of document evidence, the Prime Minister must go and take with him his two closest aides.
“The Prime Minister can see this tree every day from his office window and maybe it will be a reminder that his Chief of Staff Keith Schembri and his top Minister Konrad Mizzi set up a money laundering structure in order to receive illicit kickbacks, and he is protecting them from the very place which should impede these things – Castille – because he clearly has vested interest,” #OccupyJustice said.
The activists said that since Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination, Malta’s reputation spiralling down the drain.
“Only this week we’ve seen EU Commissioner speak of possible infringement procedures against Malta. We’ve seen how the Athens court has effectively decreed that Malta is unsafe for whistle-blower Maria Efimova and, therefore for whoever dares to speak out against Joseph Muscat,” they said.
“But clearly there was no interest in the country’s reputation but only in money pocketed,” they said. Quoting Mahatma Gandhi, #Occupyjustice said that “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” “But one day the Prime Minister will realise that his soul does not feed on money.”