Seventeen women clad in black stood on the steps of Castille, the office of Malta’s Prime Minister, holding cards reading “Who Owns 17 Black?” to mark seven months since the assassination of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

The stunt, carried out by #Occupyjustice activists, was in clear reference to the mystery client company which was feeding €126,000 every month into the secret Panama companies of Minister Konrad Mizzi and the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Keith Schembri, a statement by the activists said.

“We came to Castille with our question, because it is now clear to all, except maybe the Prime Minister himself, that the web of corruption is based here in his very office. And now more than ever he must go and take his two sidekicks with him,” #OccupyJustice said. 

The group said that when a fortnight ago the German paper Süddeutsche Zeitung, showed the 17 Black connection to Mizzi and Schembri, instead of firing them, the Prime Minister organised a mass meeting to plug his adulation. 

The group of activists said that everyone was asking who the mystery owner of the 17 Black company was. “So we’re telling everyone that this is where you have to come to get an answer – to Castille.” 

#OccupyJustice said they are determined to fight for what is right, for justice and for a fair and equal society. 

“This is our nation, this is our home, and we are the people. We expect better, we deserve better, we demand better.”