00:01A Maltese court has acquitted tycoon Jorgen Fennec of orchestrating the car bomb killing
00:07of investigative reporter Daphne Karana-Galizia. The businessman was accused of masterminding the
00:142017 assassination of 53-year-old Karana-Galizia, which sparked unprecedented protests and brought
00:21down a government. The decision sparked outrage from her family and media freedom advocates.
00:53Karana-Galizia had exposed corruption at the highest level in Malta, shining a spotlight
00:58on marquee links between Malta's business and political elites. Prosecutors had accused Fennec
01:05of ordering the journalist to be killed because she was on the brink of publishing a compromising
01:10article about his uncle. He was arrested on his yacht in 2019 as he tried to sail out of Malta
01:18after a middleman in the murder was offered a pardon to identify those involved.
01:24A two-year public inquiry published in July 2021 concluded that the state should shoulder
01:31responsibility for the murder due to the atmosphere of impunity the government had created.
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