Nearly nine years after investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb in Malta, a jury has acquitted businessman Yorgen Fenech of ordering her murder, leaving the deepest question of the case — who contracted the killing — without a legal answer. The verdict, reached eight to one, exposed the fragility of a prosecution built on a single compromised witness, and it lands in a country where institutional impunity has long been named as a condition of the crime itself. Justice, when it moves this slowly and this inconclusively, does not merely fail the dead — it unsettl
Maltese tycoon acquitted in journalist's murder; mastermind still unknown after 9 years
Investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, was killed by a car bomb on October 16, 2017; her murder remains unsolved despite convictions of the bomb makers.