Monday, 5th January 2009 - 08:01CET
Three men injured in two separate arguments
Three men were slightly injured in separate arguments yesterday, the police said.
They said the first argument, in which a 20-year-old man was stabbed, took place at about 6 p.m. in Guardamangia Hill. A 48-year-old man is helping the police in their investigations.
The second was between another two men in Rue d’Argens, Gzira.
The police said that when they arrived on the spot they found a 45-year-old man with a head injury. The second man, a 29-year-old, was found in another road in Gzira following a search.
The three injured men have been released from hospital.
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The way everyone manages to politicise every event that goes in Malta, including crime,
is way beyond me.
Has anyone ever thought of diminishing values?????
HE/her how did is in need of trying NOT to jump to conclusions. Now if one thinks, that these incidents are not motivated by stress, then the problem.......... is WORSE!!
Is this normal to you out there?? Stab if you do not agree??
One problem with many Maltese is that they DO NOT have the GUTS to ADMIT something is wrong!! The more I see such comments, I confirm that we will NEVER learn from our OWN MISTAKES.One stress culprit is certain people think they are JUST under GOD himself, and any EVIL can be justified!!!!
Grow up and open your eyes to reality. Take a walk, not by car with the windows closed due to the AIR CONDITION or HEATED CONTROL, and then but only then see what the Maltese are turning to.
I'm sorry Mr. Vella but I disagree, who else can change the law( punishment )if not the poeple we voted in. So politics has a lot to do with what goes on in a country.
It was just a little joke to imply the metaphor of a caveman to this story; Last time i checked the stone age wasn't occupied by people going around in trainers, with gelled hair while listening to their ipods......sorry you didnt get it.
Yes I do remember the 60's and 70's, true you had the odd bank hold up, but look around you to-day you're walking down the street and we are being held up stabbed and reped . I'm not being partisan these are fact.
I remember a PN leader telling the poeple, give me your vote and I give you freedom and money in your pockets,and of course we can never forget him telling the Maltese poeple MONEY IS NO PROBLEM. Well well,is it.
Are you old enough to remember that???????????????
My hair is long and I have a beard.. As far as I know I haven't gone out stabbing people and causing chaos..
Is this the wild west or what?
Don't get off your armchairs !
IT WAS ONLY CLUBS AND KNIVES.
As for those raising political smoke, the problem in our country is lack of severe punishment for those convicted of crime. We are so slack when it comes to handing down a punishment that getting caught for whatever crime or offence is simply a non deterrent.
Do you remember the gold shipment vanishing on its way from Luqa just before the election?
Since you brought politics in, how many bank robberies have we had under EFApn and Gonzipn?
How many people have been robbed, mugged and murdered under EFApn and Gonzipn Alex?
As I have always said, thieves and murderers have no political allegiance. Their only allegiance is to themselves.
P Aquilina
Are you now trying to deny the truth because if does not suit you? This is certainly not to excuse such acts, but do you deny that stress for a long time can lead people to do things which they would not normally do once a certain break point happens?
Miriam Ellul
Agree with you 100.
DEFINITELY NOT THE CASE, AS THIS TIME ROUND IT WAS NOT THE INFAMOUS "HUNTING SHOTGUN" BEING MENTIONED.
PERFECT SILENCE ON A CRIME THAT DOES NOT INVOLVE A "HUNTING SHOTGUN".
NO BETTER SIGN OF PERFECT HYPOCRISY!!!
THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ALL YOUR TRUE INTENTIONS.
I'm amazed how you can manage to link everything to partisan politics and reduce every discussion and debate into this.
Can we not discuss freely in this country without politicising everything?
Thumbs Up @ Alex Coppola
The Holplophobes aren't going to be happy with this.
Ok, aichmophobes it's your turn to have your say.
I personally have become quite Anthropophobic, for it is they who do the actual damage.
So before 1987 Malta was almost crime-free!! Do you remember one of the greatest bank hold-ups in Malta's history - the one at Mid-Med (now HSBC) Luqa's branch when more than a quarter of a million Euros where stolen and a friend of mine who was a bank employee at that time was held at gun point? If you are old enough do you remember way back in 1972 (a fresh labour govt) the famous Mgarr Barclays bank hold up when a bank employee was innocently killed?
Please stop linking political matters with every crime. It simply does not make sense.
As you can see poeple it's out of control and falling apart. WAKE MALTA.
Rather stereotypical are you not?
Now if you had mentioned the word African instead of beard and long hair, that would have caused an uproar!
'There is so much stress, bills to pay, wages and salaries cannot meet the bills and expenses, trying to work more than on job to meet expenses, losing work, taxes upon taxes, all add up. This is where the Maltese people are being led'.
Mr lgalea amazing that even out of such incidents you try to take political advantage!
With apologists like you no wonder Labour can't make it to government!
If you ask me we are bringing up a generation of young people who thing the world owes them something. If they don't get what they want they resort to violence .... verbal or otherwise.
Whilst the punishments we endured were clearly wrong, we need to bring back some SERIOUS discipline to our schools.
We are only saying that stress can lead to such acts....nobody is justifying them.
Can you confirm that these people have an ever increasing stress? Do you know them personally?
Such incidents have been happening since the beginning of mankind, are happening everyday all over the world and will continue till the end of mankind, so it might be stress but it could also be an on the spot argument due to a thousand reasons.
No i didn't....or perhaps I'd rather say that if there was a fraction of happiness it is dissolving...and@L.Muscat --yes I believe that it is due to stress. I don't think there is anything funny in comments that suggest that all this is due to stress. It doesn't mean that all the stress is government related....it can be related to many other reasons. Marital problems, finance, work...and bills...why not? People are working overtime or part time to make ends meet.....so they become tired and anxious...many others have a totally opposite problem...unemployed....Do you think that these problems do not stress people.....which lead them to short fused arguments?? Any way, as I always say, this is only my opinion!
I shall then slaughter a few people prior to sending my tax return and proceed to impale a few passers-by when my NI contributions fall due. It shall then, of course, be incument upon me to test the development of the law, by next trouncing my wife when she returns with the shopping bill from the supermarket.
These are everyday occurences, and the fact that they do happen does not mean that we any less happier, that the culprits are being treated lightly or that the Government is to blame for any of this. Rather it may be symptomatic of our Latin blood.
Dr. Etienne A. Calleja is a former member of the Malta Police Force and a lawyer in private practice
Can you deny that the people have an ever increasing stress?
What will a person under stress do?
John Spiteri, J Azzopardi
Agree with you.
Miriam Ellul
Did you believe that tripe?
How can you conclude that this is all due to stress?
How can you jump into such hasty conclusions? Were you both in the midst of these arguments? Reading between the lines you are stating that such arguments are all due to the current state of affiars our government is leading us to. It seems that everytime such incidents occur in these islands all blame is pointed to the government!!
Sorry I definitely do not agree with you both until we hear the conclusions from the police.
'According to the World Database of Happiness, the Maltese people are the happiest people on earth. This emerged from a recent study conducted by Professor Ruut Veenhoven of Rotterdam's Erasmus University, in which 100,000 people in 90 countries were asked to rate, on a scale of 1-10, how happy they were. The residents of this tiny Mediterranean archipelago – who number around 400,000 – were found to have the highest ‘life happiness index’, with 74% of the population describing themselves as happy'.
Is this changing? Why?
Agree with you.
There is so much stress, bills to pay, wages and salaries cannot meet the bills and expenses, trying to work more than on job to meet expenses, losing work, taxes upon taxes, all add up. This is where the Maltese people are being led.
One can even observe, just by walking on a pavement, Men/Women shouting as they are late for an Errand or work!! My friends this is not as much as abroad, in my opinion of course??
I think, it is more accurate to substitute "argument" by "violent argument". Arguing has nothing to do with fighting! If you don't believe me, ask a philosopher, because philosophers, are well known for arguing, but they, unlike some of us, do not resort to stabbing!