Update 2: Former councillor apologises for comment wishing Somali attack was on Cecilia Malmstrom

(Adds PN's statement) Former St Paul's Bay Labour councillor Alfred Grima has apologised for a comment on Facebook in which he publicly expressed a wish that a Somali migrant kidnapped EU commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom instead of another Swedish politician. In a Facebook post yesterday, Mr Grima published a world news Times of Malta story about the incident and commented "It's a shame it wasn't you Cecilia Malmstrom". In the incident, Somali gunmen tried to kidnap a Swedish opposition politician in an ambush in which she and another woman were wounded and two men were killed. After this story was uploaded Mr Grima apologised for his comment saying that after reflecting on what he wrote, he believed it was too much. "I publicly apologise to her," he wrote. Mr Grima contested the general elections on behalf of the Labour Party. His Facebook page contains a number of other entries which are anti-Islam and anti-irregular migrants. He told timesofmalta.com later "I am definitely not anti-Islam. In fact, I have written in the past in favour of Muslims. However, I disagree with extremism." PN calls on Prime Minister to take action In a statement this afternoon, the Nationalist Party said...