Video | Julia Farrugia files libel suit against Daphne Caruana Galizia
Journalist and Illum editor Julia Farrugia today filed a criminal and civil libel suit against Malta Independent columnist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Julia Farrugia asked the Courts today for her libel suits to be heard with urgency, after claiming she felt libelled by blogs penned by Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Farrugia, who is also deputy chairman of the Institute of Maltese Journalists, said she fully believed in the freedom of the press, but she felt this very freedom was being misused and threatened.
“Since 2010, I chose to stay silent on these insults, until today. There are such things as the dignity and integrity of a journalist, which bereft of them would leave us with little else,” Farrugia said.
Farrugia said no journalist in Malta should feel under threat of intimidation or blackmail. “I cannot allow to have my name implicated in political episodes that I had nothing to do with, and which happened when I was nine years old.”
Farrugia said she felt libelled by blogs published by Caruana Galizia since February 2010.
Farrugia is being represented by Dr Alex Sciberras.
Dephne Caruana Galizia is a disgrace to gurnalism. She must be given a sever sentence so she can have some time to think and meditate on her attitude towords other human beings.