Updated | Civil Society announces speakers for tomorrow’s second demonstration, insists Police Commissioner, AG should resign

Five speakers to address second National Gustizzja Demonstration, Opposition leader Adrian Delia cites Caruana Galizia family's "sensitivities" as possible reason for not attending. Occupy Justice send open letter to PM, say he is ignoring them

A second national protest in the wake of Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder is planned for Sunday, with speakers including Jacques Rene Zammit and Jurgen Balzan
A second national protest in the wake of Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder is planned for Sunday, with speakers including Jacques Rene Zammit and Jurgen Balzan

The Civil Society Network has announced five speakers who will address crowds attending tomorrow’s second national demonstration for justice, which will start at 4pm at the Ghar id-Dud/Chalet area in Sliema, and will march on towards Amery Street, Sliema, close to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s childhood home.

Jacques Rene Zammit, Jurgen Balzan, Andrew Borg Cardona, Claudia Taylor East and Josef Vella are scheduled to speak at the rally, with people being invited to bring whistles as well as bay leaves, which symbolise strength and courage, with them.

The network is emphasising its non-partisan demands for the Police Commissioner and Attorney General’s resignation, to be replaced through a 2/3 parliamentary majority. It is also highlighting the need for constitutional reform.

Interviewed outside PN headquarters following a parliamentary group meeting yesterday evening, Opposition leader Adrian Delia did not say whether he would be attending the demonstration, citing the "sensitivities" of the Caruana Galizia family as a possible reason for not to.

Read more:

[WATCH] Updated | 'No need for confidence vote', PN leader Adrian Delia insists

The network has also launched a “We Are Waiting for Justice” timer, which marks the days since Caruana Galizia was murdered without any of the resignations it called for having taken place.

Open letter to the Prime Minister

In the meantime, Occupy Justice activists this afternoon sent an open letter to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, saying that they had been camping outside Castille since Thursday, both in solidarity with Daphne Caruana Galzia’s family, and also because they were requesting the resignations of Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar and Attorney General Peter Grech.

The letter said that they were insisting that the replacement of Cutajar and Grech had to be competent, non-partisan, and appointed through a 2/3 majority in Parliament.

It was not acceptable that Malta’s highest institutions were held hostage by the government, they maintained, emphasising that such institutions had to not only be independent and worthy guardians of the rule of law, but had to also be seen to be so.

At the very least, they said, they expected that as citizens, the Prime Minister acknowledged their presence and appeals. They expected elected representatives to be open for dialogue in a functioning democracy, they asserted.

Moreover, despite the Prime Minister having decided to ignore them, they said, their fight for what is good, for justice and for a more equal society would continue.

“This is our nation, this is our home. We are people,” they added.