Seven monuments get Daphne posters as activists hit back at 'cowardly' government

Updated 2.57pm Activists incensed by a government decision to hoard up the Great Siege monument in Valletta marked seven different national monuments with tributes to Daphne Caruana Galizia overnight between Saturday and Sunday. Portraits of the murdered journalist, accompanied by posters with messages calling for her killers to be brought to justice, were put up overnight at national monuments in Valletta, Marsa, Msida, Floriana and Vittoriosa. Aside from affixing posters to boards blocking off the Great Siege monument, activists also placed images of Ms Caruana Galizia at the Sette Giugno monument in St George’s square, the Malta memorial and Independence monument in Floriana, Freedom Monument in Vittoriosa, Workers’ Memorial in Msida and Republic Day Monument in Marsa. The posters and portraits were quickly removed. By late on Sunday morning, all seven monuments had been cleared. All that remained by the Great Siege memorial monument were a couple of flower bouquets with quotes of Ms Caruana Galizia's attached.  Activists slam government In a Facebook post uploaded earlier in the day, activist group Il-Kenniesa said that they had set up overnight memorials to Ms Caruana...