As Malta continues to grapple with the enduring consequences of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination, the ongoing trial involving Robert Agius, known as tal-Maksar, and Jamie Vella has brought renewed focus on the systemic failures and state-sanctioned impunity that allowed such a crime to happen in the first place. The case, which centers around allegations that the accused supplied the bomb that killed Caruana Galizia in October 2017, serves not only as a prosecution of individuals but as an indictment of a corrupt structure that permeated Malta’s highest echelons of power....

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