The Nationalist Party said that the prison director should be suspended after he was taken to court on charges of pointing a gun at an ambulance driver.

Robert Brincau is charged with slight bodily harm, threatening a man with a weapon, insulting and threatening the man, carrying an unlicensed firearm in public, being armed during the commission of an offence and breaching the peace, in connection with the 21 August incident at Għadira Bay.

In a statement, the PN spokesman for home affairs Joe Giglio said that while acknowledging that improvement was registered in the administration of the prisons under Brincau, his moral authority was weakened with the start of court proceedings against him.

Good governance demanded that he should be suspended until the court proceedings are over. Unless this is done, a wrong and dangerous message would be sent, the PN said.