Top EU and other European bodies have been roped in to support calls for accountability after the Attorney General fudged criminal charges against lawyers representing Yorgen Fenech. In a statement, the Daphne Caruana Galizia foundation said it had written to the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights and the European Commission to support calls for accountability. The foundation was reacting to news that Fenech’s lawyers were on Monday cleared of attempting to bribe a Times of Malta journalist after the magistrate said the Attorney General had not indicated the relevant type of bribery. Judgment was delivered against lawyers Gianluca Caruana Curran and Charles Mercieca in proceedings that stemmed from an attempt to hand over hundreds of euros to senior journalist Ivan Martin at the end of a meeting at their Valletta office in November 2020. Martin rejected the offer and immediately reported it. When delivering judgment, the court, presided over by Magistrate Natasha Galea Sciberras, observed that although the two lawyers had been charged with active bribery and the compilation of evidence concerned that offence,...