A woman has been fined a total of €1,500 together with a six-month prison sentence, suspended for four years, after a ruthless comment she made on Facebook against PN activist and head of youth branch Team Start Eve Borg Bonello. 

Eve Borg Bonello said during a livestream on her Facebook page that she had sought justice through the court system because she feels that such behaviour should not be acceptable. 

The vicious comment was made on Borg Bonello’s social media after she gave an emotional speech during one of the 2019 protests, which took place after Yorgen Fenech’s arrest who is the main suspect in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. 

In the mentioned speech the activist, who was only 16 at that time, accused Joseph Muscat of “stealing her future”, thus was lobbying for his immediate resignation.

The comment is one of the many comments she had to endure because of her opinion as a young adult, she said on Friday. 

Borg Bonello reported the Maltese woman to the police, who found her guilty of issuing threats and hate speech. 

The women pleaded guilty, and Magistrate Ian Farrugia fined her €1,500 together with a six-month prison sentence, suspended for four years. 

Adjacently, another man was given a conditional discharge and fined a total of €300 after he left a comment on her social media saying that she should “take a mug of chamomile tea and not wake up”.