There were probably other people involved in the Daphne Caruana Galizia assassination, the deputy Attorney General said in court on Tuesday while making his case against the latest bail request by two alleged hitmen in the murder. George and Alfred Degiorgio in their latest bail request said they had been held behind bars for 50 months, since their arrest in December 2017. “I was proved right in saying that the inquiry was still ongoing when making previous objections to bail,” Deputy AG Philip Galea Farrugia told the court. “It is quite a unique case.” “It could be, or rather it is probable that other persons were involved.” He recalled that in a previous bail decree, the Criminal Court had declared that the journalist’s assassination involved a “web of criminality.” The European Court of Human Rights itself had acknowledged the fact that in such cases of organized crime, investigations were expected to take longer. Moreover, whereas earlier pronouncements by the European Court appeared to weigh in favour of bail, more recent judgments focused on balancing the rights of the accused and the presumption of innocence against the rights of society at large and the proper...