In investigation against murderers of Maltese JournalistinDaphne Caruana Galizia comes movement. At end of April, DerReporterin family gave two laptops and three hard drives to dasdeutsche federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) via an authorized representative. This resulted in research by Daphne Project, a merger of international media that Essich goal of illuminating background of murder, and Demauch time was heard. On computers and hard disks's The collected searches and correspondence of Caruana Galizia, which had been killed in October of VergangenenJahres by a car bomb.
The data are considered explosive, because y give hints to Informantenenthalten, but possibly also information about motives of so far unbekanntenHintermänner of murder and still unpublished Recherchenbeinhalten. Caruana Galizias husband and her sons had bislanggeweigert to hand over computers to Maltese authorities for fear that Maltese police would be able to make evidence disappear or search for journalist's support. The family accuses police of not dieErmittlungening with all political motives. MaltasPolizei is considered to be susceptible to corruption and influence.
The family's suspicions were nourished, among or things, by EinenZwischenfall in arrest of three suspected bombers who are to be responsible for DieDurchführung assassination of journalist. As a special unit of Maltese Police in December of last year, suspects had apparently already expected officials and MitFilzstift phone numbers on ir forearms. The mutmaßlichenAttentäter from criminal milieu were "probably warned that day", one of investigating leaders later acknowledged.
The refusal of family to hand over computers to police had led to speculation in Malta. The confidante of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat publicly questioned wher family wanted to "enlighten case in earnest". "As long as not every evidence is handed over and regulators laptops appear, family cannot be taken seriously," Kritisierteetwa socialist MEP Glenn Bedingfield, EinJugendfreund of Muscat. Unknown had also hung banners on highway brückenmit of inscription: "Why does someone hide Daphne Caruana GaliziasLaptop?"
"Transfer of data as backup copies"The detour through German authorities, which family now gewählthat, is to ensure that no information is disappearing. The WiesbadenerStaatsanwaltschaft had informed competent maltesischenErmittlungsrichter of fact that gegebenenfallsim framework of a request for mutual assistance, which would be provided by Maltese authorities, a transfer of data At least by means of backups, "said prosecutor's spokesman, Oliver Kuhn.
Until now, however, re is only one legal aid requesting Maltese from beginning of February, with which BKA is asked to provide administrative assistance to Panama papers. This concerns suspicion of money laundering undKorruption, but not murder investigation. In general, BKA UndWiesbadener prosecution, however, pursues line to support investigation to power; The WiesbadenerFahnder do not currently carry out ir own investigation procedures. If Maltese judiciary were to ask that DieLaptopdaten be allowed to use murder investigation, Deutschendem would probably be held. "A critique of meddling in Malta's affairs has not yet been brought to Public Prosecutor's office and should be relied on auchaufgrund mandatory legal requirements for legal assistance," says Prosecutor Kuhn. The family did not want to comment on income contracted Daphne project.
Date Of Update: 24 May 2018, 12:02
