Men declared guilty of supplying a bomb that killed the research journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta

Two men have been convicted in Malta for supplying the explosives that killed the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in the state of the Mediterranean island in 2017.

After a six -week trial, Robert Agius, 41, and Jamie Vella, 42, were declared guilty on Thursday by the complicity in the murder of the 53 -year -old research reporter to provide the military explosive used in the bombing of the car near his home.

They are expected to be sentenced at the beginning of next week, and prosecutors have asked them to give perpetual chain.

The three success carried out by the murder, the George and Alfred Degiorgio brothers together with Vince Muscat, have already been convicted.

Agius and Vella were arrested four years after the murder, after Muscat agreed to testify against them in exchange for a reduced sentence in that case, and a forgiveness for separate murder.

Muscat was also the key witness of the Prosecutor’s Office in the last, in which more than 150 people testified to the jury, including relatives of Caruana Galizia, members of the FBI and a former government minister.

The murder of Caruana Galizia, who had written about chrononism and Slaze within the political and commercial elite of Malta, caused international outrage.

There were also great protests in Malta against Prime Minister Joseph Muscat for his efforts to protect the friends and allies of the investigation. He announced his resignation in December 2019.

TO Public Research published in 2021 He found no evidence of state participation in the murder of Caruana Galizia, but discovered that the government created a “climate of impunity” for those who wanted to silence it.

In a statement, the Caruana Galizia family said that the last convictions gave them “a step closer to justice.”

“However, eight years after the brutal murder of Daphne, the institutional failures that allowed his murder to remain without addressing and not renovated,” they said.

Caruana Galizia, who was called “single -woman Wikileaks”, had reported on accusations of money laundering, bribery and Corruption in Malta For 30 years. She relentlessly chased politicians in her country of origin in her blog, executing comments.

“I knew that the powerful people they were writing approached,” said Galizia’s son, Paul, 60 minutes after his death. “They were using all possible means to close it. She knew it, and that was deeply scared.”

The Degiorgio brothers turn 40 each in prison for the murder, while Muscat received a reduced sentence of 15 years.

The businessman Yorgen Fenech, who had close links with the government of Joseph Muscat, is still waiting for the trial for charges that teacher of the murder.

He was arrested in November 2019 aboard his yacht while trying to sail out of Malta. He was granted bail in January 2025, without a date still for his trial.

• Corruption
• Murder
• Journalism