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Fugitive Fabio Psaila crashed his car, claimed insurance... but nobody ever noticed
Man accused of involvement in hold-up spent weeks on the run but managed to claim insurance payment for crashed car.
9 January 2011, 12:00am
Julia Farrugia
Julia Farrugia
Sister newspaper Illum today reports how various shortcomings led to fugitive Fabio Psaila, accused of holding-up an Attard jewellery, seemed to have a relatively ‘normal’ life while on the run.
Despite police being on the lookout for Psaila all over Malta, the wanted man still managed to walk off from a car accident in which he was involved and a local warden summoned to the scene, and then even file an insurance claim, get a cheque issued in his name and even redeem the cheque at a bank.
Julia Farrugia is a former editor of Illum newspaper.
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@Silent Citizen - Admittedly I may not read so many detective stories but I still need to be convinced as a citizen who does not hide my name to know how close the police were to this gang that allegedly assumed mafia status and attempted serial heists had it not been for the fact that two of them basically fell into their lap. What were the police waiting for to swoop onto this gang and arrest the culprits? Or might it be that police intelligence was unable to detect this gang for so long on a tiny rock like Malta? Is this one of their tricks?
The question remains, 'Was this a powerfully organized gang that was ultimately undetected by intelligence or not such a powerful gang which explains why its members were not arrested before two were wounded?'
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@ Gerardi - 'Psaila was disguised as a woman' first of all no one said that this was revealed by the police. And, secondly, the police play many tricks to arrive to their target. (Anyone who read 'detective stories' know what I am saying.)
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And all this he managed with 52 shotgun pallets in his body??? Workers should picture this when filling sick leave form for sore throat.
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Some of the comments below are distgusting.
People are becoming worse and worse, unjustly critisizing, always complaining, boring, jealous, demoralizing and very pessimistic.
Can these blogger get a life?!
The police did their job well in this case by even risking their lives, no appreciation for this??
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Were not the police telling us that according to 'intelligence' (???) Psaila was disguised as a woman (with a full beard)? Incidentally what level of education has the Police Commissioner and most of his force managed to make it to?
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This happens too often with our police force in an island surrounded by the sea. Send a registered letter and the postman immediately finds the person concerned. Mickey mouse! Unbelievable.
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@ Silent Citizen
No my friend, very plain and simple: The police do not have the tools to work with!
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@ Knocker & Just Ray - This only shows that the Maltese do not cooperate with the police. Possibly no one recognised him? Nowadays evryone has a mobile phone.
On the other hand it might be that the police were following his movements to see whom he will contact. As we say in Maltese 'ituh il-habel biex jitghallaq bih.'
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Said it before and say it again:
The police are only good when evidence falls on their lap!
This proves it all.
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Unbelievable! And where were Fatso Rizzo's men all the time? Boozing at the local bar or snoozing inside their police stations?
