Reporting the Safi Barracks incidents

The coverage by The Times of the recent disturbances at the Safi Barracks detention centre was decidedly one-sided, very anti-AFM and slanted in favour of the illegal immigrants who provoked the incident(s) in the first place.

The Times is playing into the hands of certain agents provocateurs who have hidden agendas and instigated the confrontations in furtherance of their plans to rip the very fabric of Maltese society to shreds.

The Times reporter should take a refresher course in fair, unbiased and impartial journalism.

Furthermore, The Times compounds matters by joining the chorus of left-leaning, liberal thinking, radical elements in calling for heads to roll as a consequence. The AFM was following orders and doing its duty to serve and protect the people. If blame is to be assigned it should be laid at the feet of this country's leadership for failing to act decisively in stemming the flow of illegal immigrants who are despatched here by North African slave merchants and in most cases land on our shores courtesy of the AFM and at the invitation of none other than our own government.

The government should stand firm and not cave in to demands by groups that owe their allegiance to foreign organisations and have no sympathy for the plight that Malta finds itself in as a result of the scourge of illegal immigration. Such groups are using the recent incidents and calling for investigations in order to bully the government into doing away with detention. Accelerating the integration of illegal immigrants into Maltese society is a close second on their agenda.

Recall that Nazis and criminals from the war in the former Yugoslavia proved themselves adept at escaping to different countries. It may be possible that criminals from such countries as Somalia have made their way here as illegal immigrants.

The warlords and their lackeys who incited their own countrymen to murder 17 US servicemen in Somalia to protect much-needed UN food shipments and dragged their bodies through the streets of Mogadishu may find accommodation at Guantanamo more to their satisfaction than those at Safi Barracks. Detention and thorough background investigations should help in filtering out such criminals.