Sunday, 29th June 2008 - 13:34CET
Updated: Policemen, assaulted, spat at, in night of incidents
(adds arraignment)
A Briton was slightly injured when he was hit by another Briton using a pointed instrument in a bar at St Paul’s Bay last night, the police said.
The injured man, 38, was the barman. He was injured by a 17-year-old at about 1.30 a.m. The barman is being treated at Mater Dei Hospital.
The boy was arraigned in court this afternoon and given an 18 month jail term suspended for four years after admitting to threating the bar owner and trying to stab him.
In other incidents last night, the police said that at about 12.30 a.m. they were called to an incident at St George’s Road, St Julians, where a 26-year-old man from the Ivory Coast was arguing with some club bouncers.
When the police intervened the man appeared to lose control and started shouting obscenities and tried to attack the police. He was promptly arrested.
Shortly after, a 25-year-old man from Eritrea was slightly injured in a fight with another Eritrean in the same street. Broken bottles were used in the fight. The injured man was treated at a health centre. The two live in Birkirkara and in the tent centre for migrants at Hal Far.
In yet another incident, near Marsa open centre for migrants, the police intervened when a Somali man who appeared drunk created a disturbance.
However when police officers tried to calm the situation, three other migrants tried to assault the policemen. The clothes worn by two of the migrants were blood stained, but when the police offered to call an ambulance, the migrants refused and instead threatened the officers. One of the men climbed on top of the police car and started spitting at the policemen.
The migrants were arrested and arraigned in court this afternoon.
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"If the criminal was a Maltese I would have said the same things." That's not quite what you did when a non-Maltese person was beaten up in front of eye witnesses, handcuffed, arrested and then accused in court of beating up policemen, is it?
Malta was never ever in the hands of Maltese. Maltes never existed. In the last 400 years or, we have formed a culture that has been a liitle recognised. Our language is a salad of mainly old arabic and other semitic words. Our religion is anything but God, but we claim Chrisianity. Our Balconies are spanish, our breakfasts are English as is our Edu and Law systems. We fancy ouselves as romantics as the Italian, as Proud in cooking as if we were really French, as stubborn and humourless when dealing in Finances as the Swiss and illustrious when we build our house as if we were German engineers. That is being Maltese today. Pity about the true honest realistic ancestors that survived on this sweet land for the last 30,000 years who only ate what they needed and watered only what required water - they made peace with all the Strong Invaders and adhored their Gods to preverse the land for us. We have weak Police & treat othres better than our children.
Dear Miss Vella you have every right to voice your opinion, but I have every right to give mine.
Surely your interests are not mine.
I do not defend any criminals including police. But in this case the immigrant assaulted the police so the police had every right to defend themselves in the best possible way.
If the criminal was a Maltese I would have said the same things.
I cannot understand how certain people hate their country and their people so much."
Bearing witness has nothing to do with choosing sides between the parties to a dispute, and everything to do with a belief in a matter of principle. You, I would venture, hate your country far more than the people you criticize. Those you criticize as 'traitors' are acting in accordance with a belief in civil liberties, a separation of powers, and the value of human rights regardless of citizenship, race, creed or colour. You, on the other hand, would prefer those liberties to be suppressed. They would like to live in a country where human rights are respected. You, it appears, prefer to live in a country where those rights are denied. Ironically, you do not realise that that could mean you'd be unable to make nonsensical and insulting statements as regularly and as publicly as you do. Since you are the secretary general of Azzjoni Nazzjonali, we should thank you for continually flagging up that party as a basket case that shouldn't be trusted.
thanks for your comment, I was heavily criticized as not supporting my fellow people and not being down to earth, just because I stated my opinion. But I agree with you fully, I have nothing against my fellow countrymen and am proud to be Maltese but some racist attitudes which have come up in many comments really get on my nerves. some people also stated that because i live abroad i have no idea what is going on in Malta, but i come to Malta as often as i can, this year I was there for two months and just because i live abroad shoudl i shut my mouth and not say anything or what???
In other articles, you see that a policeman tried to strangle his wife, a woman was accused of defiling a 16-year old...these are Maltese, of course. Nationality has got nothing to do with it.
Of course, the more different cultures, the more inter-racial cultures there may be, but not because these people are not Maltese!
I hope that all you complaining here are not part of those 91%.
Let me guess, you all think Lowell has a point right? I noticed that nobody commented on the case involving Britons!
Violent obnoxious people exist in every culture INCLUDING African and Maltese, need we go into the vile crimes, even against children committed by many Maltese? Do you consider yourselves rapists and child abusers because our jail has both and of Maltese nationality.
@F Camilleri,
People like you make me feel ashamed of being Maltese!
If these people did not have a different skin colour no comments would have been made! How I wish people like you, dear F Camilleri had to ever live next to a bigot in Europe! Rest assured you would have been subject to racial abuse of the first order as most Europeans do not consider US Europeans due to the complete mixture of Arab, Jewish and other semitic blood in us! Most don't care of course but then most aren't bigots!
How much do you bet F Camilleri will come ot screaming "Ma tarax"
@ Jean Pierre....only one case reported involved a Briton...all the rest involved illegal immigrants....draw your own logical conclusions mate...
Obviously the traitors will enjoy it, since it will be their baby
They will probably get even more EU funds to promote the integration programs that never worked in Europe
Obviously there are already some witnesses who are going to testify against police officers and in favour of the immigrant who already said that he assaulted the police officers.
I cannot understand how certain people hate their country and their people so much.
Interesting...you complain about the incident in which the illegal immigrant was involved, but not that which Britons were involved.
Your view that the article incites racism is purely your imagination, as is with many of those who claim that Maltese are racist. Facts are facts, truths are truths.
First, gets the facts right before mud slinging your own mother country.
Illegal immigrants were not ‘left hanging on a tuna pen for days’ as you SHAMELESSLY key in.
The AFM went to ‘rescue’ these ILLEGAL immigrants as soon as they were sighted.
Moreover, Malta did not hang them on a tuna pen. They came over ILLEGALLY upsetting the peace and serenity of our small island, which you now SHAMELESSLY BLAME.
What is really upsetting is yourself, a Maltese national (or an ex-one) who betrays her own country of origin.
You should have defended Malta against this ILLEGAL influx due to a problem Malta did not bring about.
Finally, the only positive thing arising of this episode is that you did not need any blusher on showing up at work on that day!!
SHAME ON YOU.
And Dear Ms Farrugia wonders why the article has an ethnic imbalance.
Your indoctrinated mind betrays so much bias against what you claim to be your country of origin that you are not even worthy of any comments.
Offenders should be deported wherever they come from including Congo, Eritrea, Somlia or any where else
For their numbers, the number of incidents they are causing is high. Another truth.
If these ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS want to stay here they must adapt to our laws and customs.
I live in a foreign country legally and strictly with their rules.
Racism or not racism the fact remains that the problem is Malta is unfortunately being stacked up with mostly outcasts from other countries. Who told you these poor souls did not arrive in Malta to escape from justice in their country.
How many times have your been arrested for spatting to police, jumping over police cars, stabbing other Maltese etc. etc.
Also arriving by boat doesn't exclude you from abiding to the laws, at least the ones that are civilly acceptable.
Maybe Claire Farrugia can explain how her difficulties living in a foreign country made her wise enough to sympatize with these aggressors.
Why not mention nationalities?? Isn't it a reality that most trouble caused over the weekend was done so by foreigners.
The article is reporting THE TRUTH except in referring to the ILLEGAL migrants as migrants.
You are now living in another country, in which:
i. you LEGALLY entered
ii. the problem of illegal immigration does not pose serious security and
sovereignty problems.
Moreover, our children and we who live in Malta are facing problems, which thankfully you may not be experiencing. These problems will not decrease unless:
i. the EU stops abusing our island,
ii. people like you stop defending the ILLEGAL OUTSIDER against her own
compatriots - SHAME.
You demand that '.... the nationality of a person does not have to be mentioned when reporting such incidents.'
Yet you SHAMELESSLY are quick enough to accuse your fellow compatriots by stating that 'Maltese also aggress the police'.
Reporting the truth of these bizarre realities plus others which either you do not know about or you simply consciously ignore, is not being racist, but rather being practical and rational.
It would be better if as a Maltese national you support Malta and your fellow-Maltese from wherever you are, rather than dictate to us what and what not is to be published on our newspapers where THE TRUTH is concerned.
I don't agree that this article was intended to incite racism. If you were a Maltese living in Malta and not a Maltese living in a foreign country maybe you would argue differently. Racism is wrong and bad but worse still is an idealistic reasoning which floats above the reality of situations. Lets call a spade a spade.
Why doesn't the nationality of a person have to be mentioned: when reporting on local incidents, don't we say for example, Mr. so and so from B'Kara or Marsa or Rabat. What's the difference? Or would you be suggesting that we are inciting internal racism?
I used to live in a foreign country as well, so I too know what it means to be a LEGAL immigrant: be careful how you throw any of this 'I know' stuff.
By the way did you arrive by boat in your country of adoption?
Please mention some similar incidents committed by Maltese. We are dieing to know.