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Justice still unserved four years after Lassana's murderLassana Cisse

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Four years after Ivorian Lassana Cisse was murdered in 2019 today, justice has still not been served and the suspects are out on bail, 44 voluntary organisations said in a joint statement. 24-year-old Cisse was shot and killed in Birżebbuġa in a racially motivated attack, where two other victims Ibrahim Bah and Mohammed Jallow were also left for dead. The two suspects were identified as off-duty Armed Forces of Malta soldiers, who allegedly targeted the victims because of their skin colour. Just a few months before, the same two perpetrators deliberately ran over May Malimi, a young man from Chad, while he was also walking in Birżebbuġa.  The organisations note that the heinous act was intended to terrorise and instil fear within the black migrant community. The self-confidence of the two suspects was fueled by years of political rhetoric and inhumane immigration policies that suggested that migrants of colour and black migrants may be treated as inferior people. For far too long, political discourse and punishing policies have fanned the flames of racial prejudice, while others have condoned such discrimination through their deafening silence, they said. They insisted that the...


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