Third Maltese minister quits amid fallout from journalist’s murder
PM Joseph Muscat under pressure after arrests in relation to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s killing
The future of Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat, hangs in the balance after his chief of staff and two ministers stepped down in rapid succession amid controversy over the murder of the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
The ministerial departures, on Tuesday, followed a series of arrests in the hunt for those behind the assassination of Caruana Galizia, a renowned investigative reporter who was killed by a car bomb near her home in October 2017.