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Oct 2022
18m 29s

#307 | The Murder of Daphne Caruana Gali...

Leonardo English
About this episode

A few months after Daphne's brutal assassination, the Maltese police raided a potato shed.


They would "find" three men who would later admit to being involved in the murder, but were they really any closer to the truth?

  • The initial investigations of Daphne's murder
  • The December raid on the potato shed
  • Vince Muscat & The DeGiorgio Brothers
  • How the police caught the hitmen
  • November 2019: when everything changed
  • The arrest of Yorgen Fenech
  • The power goes out and Keith Schembri is arrested
  • Yorgen Fenech promises to "spill the beans"
  • Fenech's pardon request is refused
  • The resignation of the Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat

Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/daphne-caruana-galizia-part-2

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