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Watch: BBC journalist charged with assaulting two trappers in Gozo

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BBC journalist and bird conservation activist Chris Packham is expected to grace Gozo's courthouse tomorrow to face charges that he assaulted two trappers. In a video posted to Twitter early on Tuesday morning, Mr Packham said he had been kept at a police station in Gozo for two hours and issued a court summons for 9am on Thursday morning.  "Two trappers...claimed that I'd assaulted them," Mr Packham said in the video, with Victoria police station in the background. "I've been charged with using force against any person with the intention to insult or hurt them. I'm completely innocent of these charges."  As he faced the camera lens, the journalist went on to claim that a policeman at the scene had pushed him "all the way up the street".  "Malta!" he wrote in the tweet accompanying the video. "You point out suspected criminals to the police . . . and you end up in court!" WATCH: Packham reflects on Malta following the spring hunting referendum In a subsequent tweet in which he tagged Animal Rights parliamentary secretary Roderick Galdes and Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, Mr Packham asked what had been done with the two trappers involved in the altercation. "Probably nothing," he...

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