Caruana Galizia's laptops handed to German police

Investigators from the German federal police (BKA) have gained access to two laptops and three hard drives used by assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia before her death, Times of Malta can confirm. In reply to questions by Daphne Project partners Süddeutsche Zeitung, the regional German prosecutor said Ms Caruana Galizia's IT equipment had been handed over by “family representatives”. The equipment was handed to the German police on April 27. The laptops have been at the centre of a legal wrangle after one of the murder suspects, Alfred Degiorgio, filed a constitutional application over the family's refusal to grant local investigators access to the equipment. Mr Degiorgio, along with his brother George and Vince Muscat, stand accused of planting the car bomb which killed the journalist on October 16. All three men deny the charges. The murder suspect claimed that his right to a fair trial was being breached by investigators’ failure to obtain the last laptop used by Ms Caruana Galizia. Read: Missing Caruana Galizia laptop prompts court application by murder suspect Maltese investigators were instead given access to a laptop last used by Ms Caruana Galizia in 2015. The...