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An assassination foretold

An assassination foretold

My Mother’s Murder • S1, Episode 2

An assassination foretold

In October 2017, Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb in Malta where she lived and worked. Her son Paul, a reporter at Tortoise, says her family were ‘shocked but not surprised’ at her death. How could the assassination of a prominent journalist in an EU country be unsurprising? In the second episode of a four-part series, Paul reveals the chain of events which culminated in his mother’s murder.

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