The Chamber of Architects and Civil Engineers (Kamra tal-Periti - KTP) has filed a request to obtain the full magisterial inquiry into the death of Jean Paul Sofia, as it will need this to decide on whether to suspend architect Adriana Zammit who is charged in connection with the incident.

Zammit was the architect of the building which collapsed and killed 20-year-old Sofia on 3 December 2022. She was also an employee of Infrastructure Malta but she was suspended by IM.

President of KTP Andre Pizzuto told The Malta Independent that the conclusions of the inquiry, which were made public by the Office of the Prime Minister, do not provide enough information to allow the chamber to evaluate whether to suspend Zammit’s licence.

With the full magisterial inquiry, Pizzuto said that the chamber would be able to evaluate whether there was any professional negligence or any breach of the code of ethics.

Therefore, keeping to a promise Pizzuto made back in February, KTP filed an official request to obtain the full magisterial inquiry through court proceedings so that, if this request will be refused, the chamber would be able to appeal it.

Back in February, in an interview with The Malta Independent on Sunday, Pizzuto pledged that in the case of Sofia KTP will ask for the evidence from the magisterial inquiry once this is closed. The inquiry was concluded last week and the OPM made the conclusions public on Wednesday.

In the interview, Pizzuto also said that KTP was met with “resistance” from the Attorney General when it asked for evidence presented during the magisterial inquiry into Miriam Pace’s death so that KTP would be able to proceed with its own investigations. It took over two years from Pace’s death for KTP to obtain this information and investigations from KTP’s end are still ongoing. Pace had died in March 2020 when the house she resided in collapsed into an adjacent plot which was being developed.

At the time KTP had made a request through the court twice; the first time it was rejected and the second time it was granted after two appeals.