The bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was purchased by the killers in Sicily. After the crime, the hitmen went for tea.
This morning in the Valletta court, Vince Muscat, the repentant hitman who participated in the murder of the Maltese journalist, gave chilling testimony. Muscat provided details in the trial involving brothers Adrian and Robert Agius, their associate Jamie Vella, and suspected hitman George Degiorgio. Muscat has already testified against brothers Alfred and George Degiorgio, former co-accused. The witness pleaded guilty to the crime and admitted his involvement in the journalist's murder. Daphne Caruana Galicia occurred on October 16, 2017.
After a plea bargain, Muscat was sentenced to a reduced 15-year prison term and received a presidential pardon for his role in the 2015 murder of lawyer Carmel Chircop.
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Vince Muscat, known as 'Il-Kohhu', confirmed that the bomb was brought by Robert and Adrian Agius on a catamaran from Sicily, containing 500g of explosive material. Muscat said Degiorgio preferred a bomb to another type of weapon for Caruana Galizia. It also emerged that Robert and Adrian Agius imported AK-47 automatic rifles. Muscat testified that on the day of the assassination they were in possession of an AK-47 brought from Italy for emergency and self-defence purposes.
In court, Muscat also dwelt on the chilling details of the explosion: “It made a plume of smoke, but we didn’t hear a sound” and “we all went for a cup of tea afterwards”. During today’s hearing, dedicated to cross-examination by the defence, Muscat retraced and reiterated the facts already presented in the first of the hearings of the ‘evidence gathering’ against the brothers Adrian and Robert Agius, their partner Jamie Vella and the killer George Degiorgio. Among other things, he confirmed that, according to what his accomplices told him, Caruana had to die “because he was about to report some details”. Muscat also reiterated that the three perpetrators were warned at least three weeks in advance of the raid that would arrest them on 4 December 2017, so much so that they cleaned out the hideout and were there “so as not to disturb the families at home”, thinking that they would all soon be released. According to 'Kohhu', it was George Degiorgio (caught in that raid together with his brother Alfred and Vince Muscat himself) who sent the text message that detonated the bomb with 500 grams of explosives that had been supplied by Agius and Vella. He pressed the send button while sitting comfortably in his boat, following the instructions that his brother Alfred gave him while he and Muscat kept an eye on the journalist's house. They saw Caruana preparing to leave, go back into the house for a moment, then get back in the car and drive off. When Degiorgio pulled the 'trigger' "Alfred asked him why he had done it without waiting for his go-ahead". Muscat and Alfred Degiorgio checked the effects of the execution. "Then we went for tea".
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