Ten arrested over murder of Malta journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia

Maltese PM says there is ‘reasonable suspicion’ that detainees were involved in car bombing killing

Journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia on 27 April 2017.
Murdered journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia 
(Image credit: Photo credit: MATTHEW MIRABELLI/AFP/Getty Images)

Police in Malta have arrested ten suspects over the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a journalist who exposed political and police corruption on the island.

Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced eight of the arrests at a press conference this morning, when he said the detainees are being questioned on “reasonable suspicion” of involvement in the 16 October car bombing of Caruana Galizia, the Times of Malta reports. The government subsequently tweeting that two more suspects were in police custody.

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