One of Daphne Caruana Galizia's sons has called for an independent inquiry into the attorney general's "ability and willingness to prosecute corruption", after Yorgen Fenech's lawyers were acquitted of an attempt to bribe a Times of Malta journalist on Monday. "This was an open and shut bribery case against the legal counsel to the man indicted with masterminding my mother’s assassination," Andrew Caruana Galizia said in a tweet. "There has to be an independent inquiry. My family and the public deserve to have faith in the AG’s ability and willingness to prosecute corruption." His two brothers also weighed in. Matthew Caruana Galizia dubbed the acquittal as "shocking incompetence" and said that "the judgement makes it clear that if the AG did things the right way, there would have been a conviction". And Paul Caruana Galizia insisted that despite the acquittal, the facts still stand - that "Yorgen Fenech's lawyers tried to bribe a journalist for favourable coverage of their client, who stands charged with ordering [his] mother's murder". Media lawyer Flutura Kusari, who is the legal advisor to the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom said the outcome displayed how...
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