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Safi PN candidate denies hosting ‘Nazi five-a-side’
Prime Minister’s nephew and Nationalist candidate for Safi denies newspaper reports on 2005 council minutes
22 February 2012, 12:00am
Matthew Vella
Matthew Vella
2 min read
PN candidate Alexis Callus denied news reports in l-orizzont that he had organised a five-a-side match at the Safi ground for right-wing extremists.
Alexis Callus, a Nationalist party candidate for the Safi local council who had resigned in 2005 when his racist comments on a far-right website were made public, has denied having ever used the council's facilities for far-right activities.
Callus, who is a nephew of Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, has denied a report appearing in General Workers Union daily l-orizzont, which said Callus had used the council's facilities to make copies of a poster for a meeting by far-right firebrand Norman Lowell, and offered the local football ground to his "extremist right-wing friends".
L-orizzont reported minutes of a council meeting held in February 2005, three days after Callus's resignation, in which Labour councillor Edwin Bonello stated that nobody from the council was informed of Norman Lowell's public meeting which he held on 22 January, 2005. Bonello alleged that it was clear Callus was aware of the activity when he had produced a poster for the event, and that he had also offered the Safi football ground for free to his "far-right friends for a five-a-side" which he also posted on a far-right internet forum.
Callus, formerly Safi's deputy mayor and now running again for the council, has denied the allegations. He also said that he had taken responsibility for the comments he posted on the internet, and resigned his councillor's post.
Writing under the pseudonym Operazzjoni C3, Callus was a regular poster on Ave Melita, a far-right internet forum that attracted media attention as immigration became more of a critical issue in 2005.
Callus, then aged 24, called for a "Partit Nazzjonalista Veru"; one of his deleted messages, which was then retrievable from the internet thanks to other fascists who reproduced it elsewhere, Callus said that Turkey might be useful within Europe, only to host unwanted Africans. "If Turkey would consume the migrants from Africa (due to their cultural similarities), I think Turkey can become the compost heap of Europe and free our country from the unwanted waste," Callus wrote.
Matthew Vella, a freelance journalist at MaltaToday, was formerly executive editor at Malt...
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In one of the radio stations it was reported that Callus said that Labourites should be buried in the mizbla, or something to that effect. The report here refers to his negative comments about migrants from Africa.
The manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik confirms that he hated both Muslims and Labour (Norwegian). News reports back in summer referred to Breivik having contacts with PN individual(s) when he visited Malta. Everyone knows how Breivik broke in the news when he attacked a summer camp full of Labour Party teenage activists killing 90.
I have to ask here whether any investigations have been undertaken locally to verify whether the reported links to Malta really existed and if there was any truth with whom.
It is important to restrict hate speech because its consequences can be far reaching.
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Does this mean the PN is going to allow someone who actually believes Turkish and African culture are similar to contest on it's ticket again?
I'd rather vote Joe iz-Zejza.
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Jien nemmen lill- Partit Nazzjonalista: nhux veru li il-partita kient five- a- side; dan gideb.....kient 6- a-side! Il-Partit nazzjonalista qatt ma jigdeb!!!!!!
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Jien nemmen lill- Partit Nazzjonalista: nhux veru li il-partita kient five- a- side; dan gideb.....kient 6- a-side! Il-Partit nazzjonalista qatt ma jigdeb!!!!!!
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"Do not do what you would undo if caught." In this case one can replace 'do' with "write".
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For those who may not know, Operazione C3 was the Italian Fascist plan for the invasion of Malta in 1942. If Callus has similar ambitions as his mentor Benito, then he is doomed to face a similar humiliation.
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'Operazione C3' was the codename of the invasion of Malta by German and Italian troops in 1942. The invasion never happened and the British, with the help of Malta, turned the tide of the war that year after the battle of El Alamein. Goes to show the character of the person who used this nickname to post on the right-wing Maltese website. http://mazzun.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/l-interdett-biex-ma-ninsew-qatt/
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Hate speech at its best, and government closes both eyes. It is unthinkable that this is happening in an EU Member State.
May I ask what the EU Representation is doing in Malta? The EU Representation should be looking at the interests of the EU and not those of a national government!
Maltatoday and the Labour Party should raise this issue in Brussels if they are really interested to stop hate speech in our little island.
