The Minister for Home Affairs, Byron Camilleri, did not provide clarifications tied to a botched Swieqi raid in Parliament.

Four people living in Swieqi have claimed that heavily armed police officers mistakenly raided their apartment, holding them at gunpoint and restraining them in a violent mix-up. The incident, which occurred last month on Triq is-Swieqi, has been detailed in a judicial protest filed by the residents.

During Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, Minister Camilleri was asked to clarify how, according to Police Commissioner Angelo Gafà earlier on Tuesday morning, the police went to the correct address but ended up putting innocent residents in handcuffs and zip ties.

The raid was meant to be related to a drug trafficking case.

PN MP Darren Carabott said that if the police indeed raided the correct address, then one of two scenarios played out: either that the wanted persons live in the raided flat but were not inside when the raid took place, or that these persons were registered in this Swieqi residence but do not actually live there. Carabott asked Home Affairs Minister Camilleri to explain under which circumstance this mistaken raid took place.

Minister Camilleri did not answer the Opposition MP's question. Instead, Minister Camilleri criticised MP Carabott and the Nationalist Party for writing about this incident before the police issued its official statement on the matter.

Minister Camilleri stated that PN MP Darren Carabott does not fail to attack the police at every opportunity. This point was quickly retracted after the Speaker of the House informed the Minister that this point was out of order unless Carabott spoke against the police in Parliament.

On this matter, the Minister called for the Speaker to issue a ruling on Nationalist Party media's reporting, in which it reported that Minister Camilleri, during Tuesday's plenary, had blamed the concerned Magistrate for supplying the police with the wrong address. Camilleri alleged that what was published was false.

Camilleri concluded his response to Carabott by calling on the police to continue carrying out their "successful drug operations." He stated that the government shall continue to provide the police with good working conditions - "something the PN never did," he remarked.