News • December 07 2003

Adrian Vassallo crusades against Bondi’s demons

Labour MP Adrian Vassallo, one of the more vocal MPs on social mores and public decency, has questioned the veracity of the satanic black mass shown during a double feature on satanism on Lou Bondi’s Bondiplus on TVM.
Earlier this week, the Labour backbencher asked the Prime Minister whether there would be any form of investigations into the veracity of Bondi’s alleged undercover filming of the satanic mass. Vassallo asked Eddie Fenech Adami whether the filming was actually a set-up by actors, following reports which he had received on the matter.
This was not the first time the authenticity of Bondi’s alleged footage has been questioned following the airing of the mass. The English-language press was foremost in relaying doubts over the genuineness of the actual mass.
Fenech Adami answered Adrian Vassallo saying the Broadcasting Authority had received no information or complaints contesting the veracity of the satanic black mass, allegedly filmed undercover by the Bondiplus team.
Vassallo also asked Investments Minister Austin Gatt, minister responsible for PBS, whether an investigation will be carried out. Gatt said it was not the ministry’s responsibility to carry out the investigation suggested by Vassallo.
Following the broadcasting of Bondi’s clandestine footage of a group of eight satanists celebrating a black mass, Vassallo asked Home Affairs Minister Tonio Borg whether the police would be taking any steps to investigate the Bondiplus footage and the perpetrators of the black mass, for having blasphemed against God and the Church. The offence is regulated by the Broadcasting Act.
Minister Tonio Borg referred Vassallo to the minister concerned, in this case Investments Minister Austin Gatt, but said that if the broadcast has broken the law, "steps will be taken."
Bondiplus’s tour de force feature on satanism, reportedly broadcast right in the middle of TV survey week, sent TV ratings soaring for Bondi, who clocked in with a peak audience of 130,000, a close second to perennial favourite Xarabank, with 150,000. Both programmes are produced by the Where’s Everybody? production company.