Former PL Secretary General and current Executive Chairman of the Valletta Cultural Agency and ONE Productions Ltd Jason Micallef has called for Labour supporters to protest in the streets against the injustice done to former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, whose private home was raided by police early morning yesterday.

Muscat’s private residence in Burmarrad was searched by police on court order as part of a corruption probe into the Vitals Global Healthcare (VGH) hospitals deal. Muscat admitted in a video uploaded to Facebook that he was only "half surprised", by the search. He was prepared with a file of documents to hand over to the police.

Micallef said on a Facebook post that the ‘theatrics’ pulled off on the Muscat family is unacceptable. Micallef also condemned Times of Malta for arriving before the police to take pictures of officers entering the Muscat residence.

“It was done to embarrass the Labour government, as well as create excess tension a few months before the general election,” he said, adding that it is now time for Labour supporters to protest in the streets.

Micallef called the ordeal an absolute obscenity, with the way the raid was done, the timing, and the suspicious leak to members of the media. Worst of all, he added, was the confiscation of Muscat’s children’s mobile phones.

“The Police Commissioner and the Police Force are obligated to investigate the person behind the leak to the Times of Malta, who was on site before the police,” Micallef said.

He also called for an explanation from the Police Commissioner as to why the mobile phones of Muscat’s children were confiscated, an action which he deemed ‘absolutely unbelievable.’

“The institutions have to work, however, it's a shame if the institutions work due to feeling threatened by a few dozen people from an organisation that harms the Labour Government, its leaders and its former leaders,” Micallef said. “Muscat is one of us,” he added.