I refer to Noel Grima’s article entitled “'Why Delia groupies are barking up the wrong tree” (TMIS, 11 November) in which the following was stated: "Take Delia's performance at the press conference after revelations on 17 Black. Replete with lawyer talk, it was full of empty words, as many of the commentators on news websites promptly saw. At no point was Daphne Caruana Galizia mentioned..." by pointing out that one could understand that Adrian Delia felt offended when he was the target of a smear-campaign in the run-up to the Nationalist Party leadership race. The more so when one can easily deduce that the journalist in question had been given dubious, if not incorrect, information by prominent Nationalist Party politicians in the vain hope of preventing Adrian Delia from winning the Nationalist Party leadership contest.

In this context, instead of 'making overtures to the Daphne faction in the Nationalist parliamentary group' as Noel Grima put it, it would have been better had the Caruana Galizia family issued a formal public apology to Adrian Delia (but they lacked the decency to do so).

Having said that, it is clearly unacceptable that the complete circumstances behind Daphne Caruana Galizia's assassination on 16 October, 2017 are still unknown.

 

Edward Torpiano

Floriana