De-escalation: Maltese jury acquits Yorgen Fenech
A Maltese jury acquitted businessman Yorgen Fenech, 44, of all charges over the 2017 car bomb killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The panel voted 8 to 1 after deliberating in the morning. He was cleared of complicity in murder and of conspiring to commit it.
Fenech had been accused of commissioning the attack and had faced a possible life sentence. The verdict clears the man long alleged to have masterminded the plot while the hitmen, brothers George and Alfred Degiorgio, are serving 40-year prison terms. Galizia’s relatives wept in court and condemned the decision.
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