[WATCH] Police are still ‘intensively’ investigating Caruana Galizia murder, police chief says

Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar insists the investigation into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder has not stopped and Europol are still involved

Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar
Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar
Police chief says Caruana Galizia investigation has not stopped

There has been no let-up in the police investigation of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder, Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar is insisting.

“We are still intensively investigating the case and Europol are still involved,” Cutajar told MaltaToday when asked whether any progress had been made to find the people responsible for commissioning the crime.

Assistance from Europol, the European police agency, and other foreign law enforcement agencies had been sought by the Maltese authorities immediately after the murder. 

Cutajar said the investigation was ongoing and "will continue 24/7".

He was speaking to MaltaToday after the signing of a new collective agreement for police officers on Monday.

Tomorrow marks the first year since Caruana Galizia was murdered by a powerful car bomb just after leaving her house in Bidnija.

Three men are currently in custody, accused with carrying out the bombing. The case against them is ongoing but the people who commissioned the murder are still at large.

Cutajar refused to say whether the police had made any progress on the matter, insisting that he did not want to prejudice the investigation, the magisterial inquiry into the murder and the court case against the three men.

Concerns have been raised by some that the police are not doing enough to get to the people who commissioned the murder.

The three men charged so far had never been mentioned by the journalist in her blog and are widely believed to have been commissioned to carry out the murder.

In December 2017, less than two months after the murder, the police had arrested 10 men but seven were then released on police bail and none of them have so far been charged.