Maltese Investigative Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia ran a hugely popular blog in which she relentlessly highlighted cases of alleged high-level corruption by politicians from across party lines.
Daphne Caruana Galizia, a investigative journalist in Malta, has been killed after a powerful bomb exploded in her car, police said.
The force of the blast reduced her car to pieces and catapulted the journalist’s body into a nearby field, witnesses said. She leaves a husband and three sons.
Malta officially known as the Republic of Malta is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.
Daphne Caruana had also exposed Malta’s links with the so-called Panama Papers document leak, which revealed the identities of the rich and powerful around the world with offshore holdings in the Central American country.
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said in his public address 90 minutes after the car bomb exploded that he had asked the US for assistance in the investigation.
Around 3,000 people held a silent, candle-lit vigil on Tuesday evening in Sliema, just outside Valletta.
The hashtag ‘Je Suis Daphne’ circulated widely among social media users on the island of 400,000 people, the European Union’s smallest state.
