Wednesday, 10th June 2009 - 13:16CET
Migrant beaten up in Paceville dies
A migrant who was beaten on the head in Paceville and refused entry into a nightclub has died as a result of his injuries, informed sources said this afternoon.
The incident happened in the early morning of Friday, May 29.
A nightclub bouncer, Duncan Deguara, was taken to court on Monday, accused of seriously injuring the migrant, Suleiman Abubaker, from Sudan.
A French student who had been with the migrant told the court that his friend had been punched as he tried to enter the club drunk. He suffered a fractured skull and was taken to hospital in critical condition.
The witness told the court that Mr Abubaker was thrown to the ground with the force of the punch. After he was helped up he stumbled and hung on to a signpost, only to be kicked by an unknown person.
The pressure group Moviment Graffitti in a statement yesterday condemned "rampant racism" following the incident.
The group said this would not be an isolated incident and asked for immediate action to be taken to tackle the problem in Paceville.
Graffitti said that although other persons in Paceville tended to be drunk, they did not get beaten every time they tried to enter a club. It was no secret that black persons were not allowed into the majority of clubs in Paceville, especially when they had an ID card showing they were immigrants, it added.
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Being drunk,whether white or black cant be allowed into nightclubs. We all know how a drunk person will react or of how he cant reason sensibly.
Let us all hear the whole story first and let us hope justice is made whether the victim is black or white.
@Helen Mc Aleer
The maltese who emigrated to Australia,Canada and the UK went there legally with all the necessary documents, so please be informed before speaking out and they made a good living for themselves. I do not think that at that time the Government of these countries accepted more than they could afford to host.
Moreover, I do not think that no country is happy about having illegal immigrants sweeping into their own land.
Would you if they came barging into your own home?
Was he beaten up for nothing even last year!! Kemm kien bezzul... Alla jahfirlu!!!!!!!
There are many fools in Paceville & foolish behaviour is encouraged for profit so what else is new!
You are always prompt to put in your comments whenever such a topic arises. What you unfortunately always forget to do is to condemn rascism. While giving benefit of doubt to the bouncer (let us assume that this 'macho man' is evil to all irrespective of colour), definetly the passerby who kicked Mr. Abubaker acted out through racism.
We are all awaiting your condemnation while looking forward to see you next Saturday at Paceville for the anti racism peacful walk.
I know people who have entered in clubs and where 'Tipsy' and even Drunk. May I notice, he was with two French people, the Bouncer let them in, but didnt let him in. He didnt let him in because some clubs are givin some rules by the owners, and no black's are aloud inside. I know this white boy, he wasnt let in, cuz he wasnt under the dress code of the club 'Fuego', and the bouncers didnt let him in cause he was dressed up as a rapper. And no dress code was present on walls.
Think before you talk, you dont even know how racist this county is....
Sorry if we're trying to protect our country from intruders - we're not discriminating against the indigenous people like you do in Australia (aborigines just in case u missed the point) and g'day to u too.
We will miss him. May he rest in peace.
To the rest of the macho culture hypocrites who are lambasting this bouncer - he could be a swine - may I say. Many will be found glued to a TV screen if there is an important boxing match (that is where two men beat each other senseless and sometimes fatally for big money and the fun of macho man). These same men lambast bouncers and fail to recognise their worth. And furthermore, these same men cringe, or very much worse than cringe, at the thought of two men holding hands or God forbid, kissing. What's that saying about measures and standards coming in twos? I'm not very good with sayings. I am a pragmatist.
I'm Sad :( and yeah, today we can make it official, I'm embarrassed, ashamed, to call myself a Maltese Citizen. We should have given him respect and Freedom, instead we gave him racist comments, and beaten him up, and put him in prison....
I hate this society, and if you got any comment's, think twice before you act, let's give him the respect which he deserves, after all, GOD HAS CREATED ALL MEN EQUAL
R.I.P Suleiman..... :(
While I condemn the fact that he was punched by the bouncer, it is wrong to say he was not allowed into the premises because of the colour of his skin - I have seen many white people refused entry into nightclubs because they were drunk and could have caused trouble.
It is also very lamentable that certain people are claiming that this incident is proof that the Maltese are racist. They should stop to think for a minute that unfortunately, incidents like this happen in every country in the world, all the time. It is wrong to generalise, just as it is wrong to decide that the bouncer involved in this incident willingly killed this man. Has no one ever heard of a person falling over, hitting their head on the pavement, and dying as a result of the fall? We should not be so quick to judge the bouncer before all the facts in this case are brought to light in a court of law.
Incidentally, I am against anyone's violent death. Read my previous comments and you will know what I mean. People have rights. They need to exercise responsibilities. You too have heard that one I am sure.
You cannot link this directly to racism.... Even whites get similar treatment by bouncers.....I beleive that this was a barbaric act but far from a deliberate attack to put a black person's life in peril........If that is the case the bouncer is double crazy to do something like that in public...... And guys this case is no easy to solve as there is an unknown third party who apparanetly kicked mr suleiman....Under our law, an accused has to be found guily beyond any reasonable doubt......
as for steven camilleri's unoriginal and often quoted statement "if they like they can take immigrants to their houses and let them sleep and live over there with there loved ones"...that's like saying anybody who complains about the roads should go out and fix them themselves...
Only a few months ago, everyone was boasting that Malta was the first to congraulate Obama in being the first black president.
Then its ok to kill a black person for being drunk and black, oh and an immigrant.
I think you have all forgotten that not very long ago loads of maltese were flocking to the UK, Australia, America and Canada to make a better life for themselves. Guess what they were still immigrants and even though maybe not illegal I bet they still took jobs, homes, benefits etc that really belonged to the host country.
Get a life and a conscience
True, racism and xenophobia is rampant in Malta but against the Maltese!
If the government wants to solve the problem of racism and xenophobia, then the government needs to solve the problem of illegal immigration once and for all. Malta and the Maltese never had any problems assimilating small controlled numbers of LEGAL immigrants, irrespective of their skin colour.
God knows how many people get punched in pv and they are not black.
This guy had a fractured skull. Obviously this was not directly caused by a punch.
I am not trying to defend the bouncer, his job is to avoid trouble on the premises and not to cause it, but to go so far as to say this man was intentionally killed because he was black is extreme. Typical of grafitti.
How many people got a punch in pv?
@ Kenneth cassar well as us Maltese are more educated then a third country people we know not to stick a sign saying (No blacks allowed ) not even as a dare ,but you can go to a anywere in the world night club that is owned by blacks as soon as you walk in they all stare at you if they dont like you they would ask you to leave, next day go in with a black guy and you are in like a shot although all the staring that goes on makes you feel so uncomfortable that you walk anyway. Racism happenes everywhere in the world . some people like to take over other peoples country / town in Gravesend / Birmingham UK it is run by the hindu and Sishk , part of Glouschester / Hackney is run by Blacks and you cannot walk thier streets ,and i think MALTA is gonna end up just the same if we dont watch out.alot of these immigrants belive they have gods right to go and do what they like .
These individuals have fled lives of horror and tragedy, there is no reason to take out your anger at international politics on them. If you are angered by politics, do something about that.
Maltese people take from the EU but are not willing to put up with anything that means that they have to actually do something proactive.
Malta needs immigrant workers. It needs their input into society. Employment rates within the Maltese population, furthermore have not decreased since asylum seekers started arriving on Malta's shores.
Do not shout out generic complaints about politics, economics, society or culture, hiding a darker deeper racism within the community.
Malta as a European Catholic humanitarian country should be grateful that it has been given the opportunity to help these individuals. Malta can grow and Malta can learn from these people.
Fair enough fight for political change. It will help not only the Maltese, but the asylum seekers- But NEVER EVER make excuses for racism.
I was leaving a supermarket a few days ago. Suddenly, a strong, normal height bouncer rushed past me pushing two large guys in front of him. The were filthy, bloodied from previous falls, drunk. The were not white, down-and-outs.. They had not business in the shop. They were unceremoniously ejected. Outside, they lay on the ground, one's blood flowing AGAIN. The usual ani-social, anti-authority, anit-everything jobs gathered. Including Somalis, scarved a` la Arafat, and so on. One brazen young stud - very arrogant - said the bouncer should not have injured the man. I said the bouncer is doing his job, he has a family and kids. He pays taxed for my pension and your studies (he was young, the Somali).
He said: 'Are you saying the rich can beat up the poor?' What does one say to that? The police came and I offered my version of the incident. The officer was grateful, took my details and said he would not bother with the youngster (well, young disaffected men with an agenda). Last Saturday I facilitated the arrest of illegal pavement trick gambling.
Last year he was beaten up by the police because of the colour of his skin and prejudices about his status in Malta.
This year he was killed because of the colour of his skin and prejudices and bigotries inherent in Maltese society.
He fled from one persecution to another. Ironic that he was eventually killed in Malta; a 'safe' country in Europe.
Maltese people should be ashamed of the hate that was shown towards Suleiman.
In your comments you have repeatedly said that you are not racist as you personally would not act like that. However, apathy fuels racism. Everytime you hear or see prejudice and dont immediately act, you are contributing.
Things in Malta need to change.
Do not let Suleiman's death be in vain.
Do not let the bouncer who killed him walk away with a charge of anything less that murder.
Let Suleiman's harrowing life and tragic death be the impetus for change.
Pray for Suleiman tonight, that he may finally find peace...
A.M.Bonello. Bouncers are there to protect decent citizens like yourself. A wimp does not make a good soldier. Likewise, a bouncer. A bouncer deters. He is not there to bounce you on his knees and play banni bannozzi (clappy happy) - I'll be lucky! He is a bouncer because he bounces people off. Hopefully with no damage. But people get drunk. People get aggressive. It is our responsibility to stay sober. The colour of the skin has nothing to do with it. Well, sometimes it does. As I said, that is the way the cookie crumbles.
Marthese Mussett. Are you real? cont./
"The far right success". What a joke they are. The far right did not manage 5000 votes between them. They are irrelevant in todays world.
Tks. A point I forgot to mention. Not all of them are violent. Some do their job without punches thrown.
I couldn't agree with you more my friend. Many bouncer (I cannot use the word "all") seem to to be a bunch of barbarians who like nothing more than a good punch-up whilst getting paid to do so. I could almost go as far as to call them bloodthirsty. A bouncer's job is to protect the welfare of the premises and the people inside it. Resorting to violence is not necessary at all. Asking a person to leave and/or physically removing a trouble maker from the premises is acceptable. I would even accept a foreful shove if need be but beating someone up is definitely off limits. Yet, group punch-ups by bouncers are still common place.
the "bouncer culture" has been out of control a long time ago. These thugs (bouncers) bully everyone not just black people. Believe me I have been bullied once by a bouncer in a club at pv. Years ago a friend of mine was beaten senseless by these thugs. They have also beaten two swedish women and pushed one down the stairs. It was on the news a couple of years ago. The cases are countless. And this has to stop. NOW!!!! Before more tragedies. Hope this thug gets what he deserves.
My family owned a busy bar in a touristic hot spot for a number of years until quite recently. Certain people (yes, blacks and arabs included) were not welcome. Why? Because more often than not, they were nuisances and bothered other well-behaved clients. We would ask them to present a student card and when they did not, we asked them to leave, on account that the bar was for students only. In most cases, they co-operated and left quietly. We never resorted to physical force. American servicemen too were not welcome (irrispective of their race or colour). They were too loud, too boisterous and bothered our patrons. Why should the owner of a place of entertainment have to put up with such behaviour? Maltese and other european people were asked to leave on frequent occations too and I can assure you that I did not deal with them in a very polite manner. "Get off my property" was the only phrase used.
"There are clubs which do not allow access to people wearing shorts or sleeveless in Paceville. What do you call that then? Discrimination too?".
No, that would not be discrimination because everyone can wear trousers and shirts with sleeves. But few people apart from Michael Jackson can change the colour of their skin.
"As someone pointed out, the owner has every right to choose his customers, like I have every right to choose the guests in my home!".
A licensed entertainment business is not a home. A licensed entertainment business is entitled to "set standards" provided this is done legally. Disallowing customers simply because of the colour of their skin is racist, and so it is illegal. Disallowing customers because they are drunk is reasonable and legal, provided that the customer is sent away legally (that is, using the least force necessary).
The "someone" who pointed out that the owner has every right to choose his customers has no idea. Owners are regulated by the industry regulations and the laws of the country.
If some wise guy thinks I am speaking nonsense, I challenge him to place a "no blacks" sign and see where that takes him.
Were is Europe now? And Exremists must be abolished from our politics.
I stressed the words “self defence”, as this is what it is supposed to be. How can an ordinary man have a sporting chance to defend himself against aggressors who are trained for combat?
Morally, I do not believe that the victim was kicked by an unknown person. Security cameras in the area might prove me correct.
In my humble opinion, such behaviour should be punished severely by our courts and the owners of the premises who employed the bouncer should be held as accomplice. They were the ones who employed the bouncer without perhaps going through his view of life.
If I remember my childhood classes (I did attend a couple of months for martial arts lessons many many years ago) there were simple rules (i) if you can hurt - do not injure (ii) if you can injure – do not maim (iii) if you can maim – do not kill.
And for all those that moan and groan against generalisations, it would be appropriate to avoid generalising against all bouncers in Paceville. Bouncers who do their job accordingly should be thanked. I was once harassed by a drunken Arab in a nightclub, who had hit me twice in the chest, probably in order to start a fight. Thankfully I've got a strong constitution and wasn't hurt. Rather than give in to his provocation, I informed the bouncers and they took care about throwing the aggressor out. A bar brawl can make you end up either dead or a murderer, with life or liberty at stake, without those bouncers it could have been my case. Thanks.
Also , we do not know the merits of the case . Some people keep insisting , despite them being drunk , to enter clubs and establishments .
The victim might have been no angel and so to speak , was asking to be forcibly removed from the club . The job of the bouncer is to keep the club safe .
The bouncer did not murder anybody . So comments like "he should get life" etc.. are stupid .
Why are illegal immigrants going to Paceville? We know they are creating trouble everywhere. We know many feel untouchable because some NGOs and personalities are defending everything they do.
Why are we allowing this invasion and this behaviour? Do things have to end up in tragedy for the government to realise how bad things are and how far worse they will get?
Micheal Borg:
Spot on!
Steven Camilleri :
Before you criticise English towns, go and live in one of them (the multiracial ones) then talk... You might change your mind very quickly!
AHNA INSARA TAL-QOXRA BISS, L-aktar nies ippokriti fid-dinja
you cannot judge everybody as the same maybe you should said Some of us are
@ d darmanin , i have been to many clubs and drunk people or under the influence of drugs werent allowed in and im talking in uk and in Malta and i seen people been bounced out of the club and they were white , i think this is being judged as if it's a colour issue.
@chrissy galea , i hope to god you never become a judge ,and maybe if he stayed in sudan this wouldnt happen to him maybe we should call this , he was drunk in the wrong place in the wrong time not that i agree with what happened far from it .
@ everybody else
If some of the Maltese are becoming racesit do you blame them they are being used and abbused all the time , i beleive that anything that happenes that involve a cloured person they are going to make a n issue and say it is racist , IS GRAFFITI STERRING THINGS UP
last year, a maltese Australian was killed in greece after a bouncer throw at him a few punches. was that a racially motivated crime? it's not the first causality in pv netiher, there were similar murders already.
using this incident, graffitti are risking to escalate the problem especially in a place like paceville, where a racial motivated incidents are expected to happen soon, due to the lethal cocktail of drugs, booze, women and the rest of it.
Nodding @ S. Scerri's comment. An immigrant, legal or not, anywhere, MUST ensure resources to offer host country to improve him/herself. Words are cheap.
If I drink drive and kill someone, if lucky I face charges and punishment. If unlucky, no Court reached. Because I died. My fault.
If I climb Everest, or race Formula 1, I hope for medals, champagne, leggy women (that's a laugh in my case), coverage, you name it. If I (1) slip, if I (2) crash, I come home in a box. Again, my fault.
If I have unprotected sex, get someone pregnant (another laugh) or get an infection that kills.
The first I'd pay maintenance. I don't deserve to die for a few seconds' worth of fun. I knew the dangers but I was drunk/drugged. I was stupid. I paid the highest price. My fault.
Nobody deserves to die by kicking or punching. But we have to take responsibility for our actions. We do something wrong, knowingly or nor, and mostly we get away with it. We're not caught. Often we are caught. And sometimes we are punished more than we deserve.
That is the way the cookie crumbles. cont./
Finally, I understand the fact that many Maltese and foreign people just visit a club to get drunk or to cause trouble. However, this does not and should never justify the assault of the bouncer. Bouncers should be professional, licensed and trained to face such situations.
Enough is enough!
It is tragic that so many people keep denying that Malta is becoming increasingly racist and intolerant.
small country with some people having a small mentality..
We have heard many testimonies now, and I have also seen it with my own eyes - it is true, MALTA'S BIGGEST ENTERTAINMENT SPOT SEPARATES BLACKS FROM WHITES.
It is humiliating - immigrants work on our building sites by day, and are kept away from us by night. We read about this all the time in the history books and we say it shocks us, and then it happens under our very noses and we close two eyes 'because our situation is special', we believe.
What are the police there for? Is there not a law against racial discrimination that they are supposed to be enforcing? Why even bother voting at elections if the laws our politicians make are only enforced if and when the police force likes them?
bouncers dont call other bouncers to restrain some1 but to beat them up. i have never seen a bouncer 'just' restrain some1, although with all the muscles they show off they surely have the strength to. they always resort to violence.
in their opinion if some1 raises a fist to them then they can do what they want with the excuse that its self defence. and when faced with that decision, the first thing they do is resort to violence not restraint
With proper CCTV installed they could trace him and see exactly what happened
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AHNA INSARA TAL-QOXRA BISS, L-aktar nies ippokriti fid-dinja
Nobody deserves to die before their time. But cookies are fragile.
Malcolm, sorry, what are you on about? Have you never entered a pv club drunk? Well, I have, as have many other white people who were never beaten up for it.
As a representative of the political class I think you should have the social responsibility to condemn the act outright! You will have another million opportunities to criticise Graffitti, but this time I think you should choose your words carefully. With all its good intentions, the anti-immigration lobby (of which you form an integral part) may easily be blamed for sowing the seeds of racism.
Who is the racist here?
I don't agree with you when you say that since a nightclub is privately owned, so the owner/manigment can introduce certain door policies. These policies may well be "NO BLACK COLOURED PEOPLE" which is outrageous and discriminating.
You may as well decide who enters your house but, if I am not mistaken, nobody can stop me entering a club/bar/restaurant/hotel ect. if I am a law abiding person. Being BLACK is not a crime. Being a DRUNKEN BLACK is not a crime as well. A drunken person should be handled differently not as this guy was handled.
May Suleiman Abubaker rest in peace.
And for those who want to turn this into a racist event, please note that plenty of Europeans and Americans get the same treatment when they’re being a nuisance in a club. It’s a question of lack of professionalism more than a question of race.
Quoting: "After he was helped up he stumbled and hung on to a signpost, only to be kicked by an unknown person." With some dismay I remark....would this 'kick' by an 'unknown person' prove to be what killed this young man, with obvious consequences in court?
Bouncers are there to keep the calm and control, and not hurt ppl. We need to have these regulated, trained, licenced and made repsonsible for their actions.
But for decades, our politicians made sure that they were surrounded by 'bouncers' themselves, so who's going to set the example?
I appreaciate they are a burden on the Maltese Goverment............so Goverment do something about it. To kill someone because of the colour of their skin is outrageous. Murder is Murder irrespective of the colour of the skin. I hope who ever done this gets sent to the Sudan to serve his sentence.......Then the tears would flow
God rest the sole of this immigrant.
Graffitti's point was not that he was not allowed to enter drunk, but that he was beaten up and killed.
"Stating that isn't this guy the same Suleiman Abubaker who was accused of assaulting the police some time ago?".
Could be. On the otherhand, it could equally be the same Suleiman Abubaker whom several eyewitnesses said was beaten by police officers while he was handcuffed.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080706/local/immigrant-insists-he-did-not-assault-the-police
Don't you think your comment about a murdered person is a little out of order?
First, I do not think this is a racist incident. Actually, this is a typical Reverse Racism case! Anyone who attends Paceville regularly, or used to attend paceville, must know that beating from bouncers on people is a common sight to see, IRRELEVANT of their skin colour. I myself have witnessed ugly fights outside clubs, and the victims were mostly maltese. Did moviment Graffiti speak out for them? The same incident, unfortunately happened in Greece when a bouncer killed an Australian-Maltese. Was he accused of racism?
In these cases, both the bouncer and the victim were unlucky.
Secondly, let's be mature here. There are clubs which do not allow access to people wearing shorts or sleeveless in Paceville. What do you call that then? Discrimination too?
As someone pointed out, the owner has every right to choose his customers, like I have every right to choose the guests in my home!
It has been reported by The Times that the bouncer in question has been identified by the police, and is due to re-appear in court. It appears that the person who allegedly kicked the victim has not been identified. No-one is blaming anyone or drawing conclusions. The case is under investigation by the police. The main argument here is that a situation can be prevented if the so-called "bouncers" are properly trained and taught not to resort to violence.
Just for the record christians were not a targeted group by hitler....Having said that most of the political prisioners (besides jews) were christians (but that is a coincedence)...
Hitler's excuse to target jews was that they were communists.....Interesting to note that jews fought alongside the germans during the first world war.......
I a Maltese white national have been refused entry in clubs here in Malta a couple of times. Anyone remember a certain Ernest at the door of a well known (then) disco in paceville ? He used to pick on me big time. Don't know why - maybe to be him I had the looks of a killer or something. Believe me, I am as docile as kitten. However I never tried to fight my way in as you claim your friends from the states were going to do. I always bowed my head, said a couple of lewd words (in my heart against this man) and left in peace. Had I not done so, trouble would have surely followed.
This case was different. The migrant was drunk and cetainly in no way to reason things out, thus it was up to the bouncer to restrain himself rather than put the migrant's life in peril. If anything the bouncer should have called other bouncers to restrain the man and call the police.
Obviously I condemn this incident and I hope the bouncer get what he deserves not some silly suspended sentence like usual. But please..... stop saying because he is black. Maybe because he is a migrant ... not because he is black.
Let us not pin other titles to it.
The accused does not deserve more or less beacuase of the victim profile.
While, if found guilty, the perpatrator should get what he deserves, we must also not weight the crime with racism and, on the other hand, try to influence judge and jury, or try to appease or please the man in the street.
Justice must be blindfolded.
joe the plumber
Many of us objected strongly following the tragedy of Doujon Zammit on Mykonos. It is extremely tragic that the Maltese authorities had done absolutely nothing since then to prevent a similar incident from occurring right under their very eyes in notorious Paceville. This is absolutely appalling, distressing and shameful.
Or guard Malta's borders, giving immigrants a "special welcome"."
I am sorry, but I have to say I am horrified to see this sort of rubbish published.
Maybe its time that clubs are made to hire proper policemen in plain and in uniform for the security of their clubs,this could curb abuse of the non smoking ban,after going in most clubs you still end up mistaken for an ashtray,what about the amount of sardines erm i meant people in a club?Are clubs abiding to the capacity limit of their premises.Controlling the amount of people would surely help to avoid incidents or God fobid a tragedy ex a fire breaks out.
@G Debono
I do agree with you that we have witnessed these incidents on different people from different nations even fellow Maltese,but I also witnessed bouncers going harder on an individual just because he is black.As you said these actions must be condemned full stop irrespective of nationality ,race,colour or beliefs.
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@M Formosa: How many blacks have been hung in Malta?? Is this what you are referring to, when mentioning the Southern States in the 60's. Please get a life. Did you know that Whites were hung in the southern states in the 60's too. Vigilantism was used in the Southern States back in the 60's and it wasn't just against Blacks. The Black hanging got more news coverage.
Such hatred will increase when extreme right persons are given our support and encourage rthem to form a Political Party.
We must all keep in mind Hitler's Party in Germany - The first victims of hatred under Hitler were the Jews, than Christians; than the Trade Unions and finally it was anyone who dared to critisise the German Socialist (a huge misnomer ) Party better known as the Nazis.
Let us not permit history to repeat itself in our country.
May the Lord have mercy on the soul of this immigrant, and may this be the lasrt such case to occur in our country.
Furthermore, this incident stinks of racism. I am currently not living in the country, and every time I visit I am well and truly shocked. Not with the amount of 'klandestini' - there are equal amounts of immigrants (legal and illegal) seeking a better life in all other developed countries; but with the racist attitudes and comments which seem to have taken over a large portion of the population. Illegal immigration might be a huge problem. But the xenophobia and racism plaguing the islands is far worse, especially since it is more permanent then the migrants (who do their utmost to try and leave the islands). Nisthi meta niltaqa' ma xi Maltin barra minn Malta u jghaddu kummenti razzisti meta jaraw xi hadd ta kulur differenti. Sfortunatament, din tigri ta' spiss, u ma tinvolvix biss nies b'livelli baxxi ta edukazzjoni.
There is discrimination and brutality written all over this case. 1 - it is unlawful to discriminate and impede some one just because of colour race or religion. 2 - A bouncer’s job is to keep the piece and expel violent subjects out of the establishment. 3 - A bouncer have no special privilages to take matters in his own hands (a bouncer is not a law enforcement officer) and must call the police immediately upon an incident. 5 - A bouncer should only use REASONABLE force if his life is threatened ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In this alleged case the bouncer should have used his brain before he used his fists and either restrain the intruder until the police come or deny access and close the door. The use of brute force led to the death of a human being.
It is known that bouncers are trained in using force (that's why they are in the job they are) and they should know how much force to use and when to use it. That is their profession.
This is inexcusable and it doesn't matter if the victim was black, purple or orange, murder is murder.
I dont agree with graffiti when they say the nightclubs are racists because they don't let black people in. I have seen Maltese people not being allowed in nightclubs.
A nightclub is privately owned, so the owner/managment can introduce certain door policies. I decide who enters my house and not the Graffiti Group
How many more beatings and deaths until we learn?
Black or white - this attitude is disgusting.
The so called bouncers of which I am told, only a hand full are actually trained and licensed seem to take pleasure in beating up some helpless soul. Whether black or white is not the issue here so let us not go into the merits or de-merits of this. Could the authorities get off their butts and do something about these bouncers, some of which are actually police men working on their nights off whilst others take on this kind of job due to their build, physical strength and in some cases their cold bloodedness?
And what regulates the profession of a bouncer anyway? What training/education does one need to become a bouncer? Being a big bully is simply not good enough....and we're seeing the results.... as this is NOT an isolated case.
But as all things in Malta, the furore will soon die down and nothing changes..... because there simply isn't the political will to do anything.
Or guard Malta's borders, giving immigrants a "special welcome".
The beatings are outrageous and the culprit/s should be dealt with no sympathy. We must ensure ZERO TOLERANCE in such cases.
Besides a considerable amount of harm is done to our fragile tourism industry with these incidentsand the bouncers are threatening their own livelihood and that of many others workers in this industry..
Billi l-vittma kien f'sakra ma jarax art, m'ghandux jigi maqtul!!
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080706/local/immigrant-insists-he-did-not-assault-the-police
@ Frank Mercieca.
Its ironic that you said that, expecially considering that these people are seeking refuge in 'backward Malta' and not viceversa.
We demand a zero tolerance to racism and violance!
One note- why does graffitti assume that this person in black ? His name, where he comes from ? Graffitti I have seen people of all sorts of colours get beaten up by bouncers. What are you trying to say ? That bouncers are not being fair and that they should now start beating up other people as well. You should have condemed the act full stop - irrelevent whether it was done against a black, white or yellow person.
This is tantamount to your group going at length to protest everytime an american warship enteres the grand harbour - but then when a russian or other eastern ones come - you simply stay put. Is that racisim ?
Do they undergo any specific training under the guidance of the authorities?
Is it a free for all, everyone can be engaged as a bouncer, nomatter what background one person has?
Are we going to wait for another beating......and worse still another death?