Update 2: Vandals target parliamentary secretary's car

dfarrugia

Jan 4th 2010, 07:41

It;s apparently that there was no vandalize but was found out that the driver had an accident and he skratch on the car the Word "mlp" to make appear as a vandal attack the driver already resigned and under investigation

R. Zammit

Dec 28th 2009, 13:35

@ busutill m
You mean convulsed NOT ‘convulted’!!

Jean-pierre Farrugia

Dec 25th 2009, 22:06

Carry on doing your best for our elderly Mario. Take care!

Gervais M. C.

Dec 25th 2009, 20:18

Lets admit a fact, while what has happened to the car of the honorable parliamentary secretary is unacceptable, it is a daily occurrence in almost every street of the country... and I dare to add of every country! I have lost count of how many times my car and my neighbour's were vandalised..It seems that there are people amongst us who will find every excuse to vent their anger and frustration on someone/thing without defense: this time the car! Well that is only a symptom of a deeper seated societal problem! Sure something must be done to address the roots of the vandalism in the meantime the technology exists and is affordable nowadays: All the cars should be equiped with monitoring cameras... the only problem is even if one can catch the culprits with such hard evidence, s/he would be thrown back in the vicious legal circles! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

j micallef

Dec 25th 2009, 12:42

The sheer and steadily increasing amount of evil, vindictiveness and unfathomable inner hate so blatantly evident in our country should be a source of great worry and concern to all our leaders, whether social, political or religious. I have never known such an escalation of pure and unadultarated spleen vented into acts of shame in my whole life, as it is so evident today - and Christmastide does not seem to have any calming or arresting effect over evil minds.

What is happening to the few thousand creatures inhabiting this tiny dot of an island? Please, dear Archbishop, dear Prime Minister, dear Opposition Leader, intellectuals and everyone else who has a an obligation of rerouting and leading the nation's psyche - please focus your energies on trying to restore in our people, the positive values that differentiate us human beings from jungle animals that do not think twice to kill and maim in order to survive, and do not stop at anything to inflict harm and damage under any excuse. God help us if we just go on unbridled and unchecked down this worrying vortex of spiralling vengence, vandalism and aggressive hostility.

m. borg (slm)

Dec 25th 2009, 07:42

Whoever did the deed surely did not have in mind that the parl. secretary would gain some political milage whilst us the people have to fork out from our taxes to have the damage repaired.

D Delia

Dec 24th 2009, 19:28

What was it doing outside the driver's residence? Official vehicles including govt department cars should start their day from a garage and finish in a garage and not lying about outside employees' residences. That makes part of the well keeping of vehicles!

M.Farrugia

Dec 24th 2009, 18:34

F'dawn l-ahhar jiem l-On. Galea li huwa marghuf kif nghidu bil-Malti ta zaqqu fommu kellu zewg attentati sabiex jalqulu halqu l-ewwel libel minhabba li qabez għal min ma ghandux vuci u issa vandalizmu fuq il-karozza. Hawn xi hadd li jahseb li se jalaq halq Mario u ma jesprimix ruhu. Zgur li le, ghax Mario wiehed min dawk li l-abjad jghidlu abjad u l-iswed iswed, ma ghandux kantunieri.

Ramona Privitelli

Dec 24th 2009, 17:31

Certu nies f'Malta vera ma ghandhomx x'jaghmlu!! Issa billi ghamlu dan l-att ta vandalismu...x'hadu? Mbghad f'dawn il-jiem ta festi!! Mishom jisthu!! Is-support taghna jmur kollhu lil Hon. Mario Galea li hu wiehed mill-aktar nies li hemm fil-parlament li qed jahdem u qed jaghmel xoghol sura f'dan il-pajjiz u wiehed mill-aktar nies onesti. Support ukoll lil familja tieghu

Albert Bezzina

Dec 24th 2009, 17:13

Joe Vella.
Well, there were no obscene words visible on the photo (and I admit I missed that part in the write up) but in that case vandalism (politically motivated or not) is definately the case. My encouragement to the investigating officers remains. The main markings could only be carried out by means of a moving vehicle and the scratch pattern will be characteristic for the perpetrating vehicle. Crime in our country gets a free hand because of the high cost of modern forensic technology.
I wish the Parliamentary Secretary and his family not to let this act by a neanderthal to spoil their family's Christmas.

PV Abela

Dec 24th 2009, 16:53

@ Mr Mario Gellel

Do you have any doubts as to who this coward was, Mr Gellel? Although you may be right..Nationalist Ministers and P. Secretaries surely can surely ecomise on their transport bill. But then.. If if the Reds or perhaps the Greens are ever in power...do you think they will be cycling around? Hallina Gellel!

busuttil m

Dec 24th 2009, 15:58

@ r zammit
ragunar bla sens
& in English - severely convulted reasoning !!!!!!!!
What does an act of vandalism has to do with the institution of a Parliamentary Secretary.

R. Zammit

Dec 24th 2009, 15:13

Fair enough!…so it seems it has been done deliberately….too bad, but not worth fussing about.

So at least one person will be paid for repairing the car…the government. will be taxing the person repairing the car…..Mr. Galea will NOT fork out a single cent to the expenses of the car that drives him around at another expense of an employee-driver…but will have a nice brand new-looking car again…..The taxpayer, as always, does all the forking out for the car; repairs and the driver’s salary….and we all live happily ever after.

Finally we got the picture!! Life is certainly a mary-go-round for everyone to nibble at as it revolves. We must be so intelligent!!! No? Or is this just an illusion after having a few drinks at the office….again at the expense of the taxpayers. Cheers everyone!! :)

Joe Vella

Dec 24th 2009, 14:46

@ Albert Bezzina.

Sherlock Holmes couldn't have come with a better explanation as to what took place. Since you are at it, can you please explain to us all how the OBSCENE WORDS come to be on the car?

M.Bezzina

Dec 24th 2009, 14:27

Nixtieq inkun naf x soddisfazzjon ha min wettaq dan l agir!!Ekk ghall gost????

Andrea Portelli

Dec 24th 2009, 14:01

Probably some frustrated people lashing it out at the Government [in a not so good way of course]

Emmanuel Ebejer

Dec 24th 2009, 14:00

DEFINETELY A COWARDICE ACT. Sincere greetings to Hon. Mario Galea .

Daniel Vella

Dec 24th 2009, 13:29

@R.Zammit.
... OF COURSE it was done deliberately... Obsence words don't just form magically overnight...

R. Zammit

Dec 24th 2009, 13:16

Had this been a fatal hit-and-run incident I am certain there would not be all the fuss I am observing here!!

Let’s grow up! – it was done in bad taste, fine - if it was deliberately done after all!! and if it had been parked they way it should have been?!! Who knows?

This is just another BMW (that would hardly fetch €20,000 by today’s market, and by the way these cars are driven and maintained) that had been after all forked out by the taxpayer and not by the Parliamentary Secretary himself

Let’s direct any fuss, if we should, where it belongs!

c.caruana

Dec 24th 2009, 13:01

qatta idjoti...min tahsbu li se jkollu jhallas ghal hsara? AHNA mit-taxxi taghna!!

Albert Bezzina

Dec 24th 2009, 12:50

Seems to have been done by a vehicle passing too close to Mr Galea's vehicle, ether on purpose or due to pure negligence. The scratch pattern is just like a barcode. Some intensive searches could unearth the culprit vehicle. I am sure it was not done by a well kept passenger car. More likely by a badly maintained heavy vehicle, bus or lorry, possibly not even belonging to the driver. There should be some paint transfer from the offending vehicle and definitely to the offending vehicle. The rising, twin parallel deeper gashes suggest a moveable contact such as a load trailing off the back of a truck (iron nets for concrete roofs?). The very straight scratches also suggest that the vehicle was actually traveling relatively fast further suggesting that it was negligent driving. Was the car parked in a 'safe' position? There seems to be a second set of scratches which do not correspond to the passing vehicle theory. These could have been added by a copy-cat passer-by or the driver of the offending vehicle himself if he felt that Mr Galea's car shouldn't have been there. CSI Malta, come on, find the offending vehicle!

R. Zammit

Dec 24th 2009, 12:14

@ J Oatmon
It is certainly another appalling episode notwithstanding being absolutely minor when compared to the bomb tragedy.

My point is that humans assess everything by comparison, and certainly as you say there are evil people around, not just in Malta though, but within the entire human race….and this is irrespective of having sob stories behind them or not.

Had is not been so, there would be “no good people” by our standards, since as it turns out to be, the magnitude of being good or evil is simply scaled by the gap existing between the two polarities!

Just a thought!!

May you all have a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2010!

Vincent Borg

Dec 24th 2009, 12:12

An act that should be condemned by everyone, no matter what colour
in the rainbow you support.

My full soildarity with the Hon. Mario Galea and his family.

TO THE VANDALS - YOUR ACTS EXPRESSED THAT YOU ARE A BUNCH OF COWARDS.

Merry Chistmas to everybody forming part of the MALTESE RAINBOW.

mario gellel

Dec 24th 2009, 12:09

@J.Cauchi
Your comment seems to have a hidden agenda. Are you pointing your fingers at you know who??? If all political stations should be banned as you are suggesting, then TVM should be included since it's a one side party news. Have a Merry Christmas, Man

Patrick Sacco

Dec 24th 2009, 11:50

@Joseph Cauchi
I fully agree with you. It's time to clean up the media. I'm fed up of all this hatred. I love everone on their merits irrespective whether he's red or blue. Mr. Joseph Cauchi for acting President!! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.

Francis Attard

Dec 24th 2009, 11:30

Jien ma nafx ghalfejn dawn il-karozzi jinzammu ghand id-driver meta ma jintuzawx mil-ministru jew mis-segretarju parlamentari jew minn xi impjegat gholi iehor tas-settur publiku. Kull min juza dawn il-karozzi ghandu jmur ghax-xoghol bhal kull haddiem iehor, igifieri jew juza it-trasport privat tieghu jew it-trasport publiku.

Charles Micallef

Dec 24th 2009, 11:23

Sick minds target one of the most hardworking and honest
Members of Parlaiment and Government.........
...................if we could find out why and who?

Henry J Bonett

Dec 24th 2009, 11:15

I am sorry for Mr Galea. He is one of the very few shreds of hope that a lone flower can, if it were at all pssible, grow in Pariament.

D Spiteri

Dec 24th 2009, 11:11

Best wishes to our Parliamentary Secretary Mario Galea. Keep up the good work your doing for our country

Joe Borg

Dec 24th 2009, 10:44

Issa billi ghamlu dil-vendikazzjoni, MHUX AHNA HA NHALSU!!!!!!

Iktar TAXXI!!!!

A.Cachia

Dec 24th 2009, 10:44

I agree with A Abela.

All these cars should be garaged overnight. I dont see the US ambassador's car left outside overnight... or left alone at any time of the day either for that matter ! Our ministers cars shouldnt have any less treatment.

A Abela

Dec 24th 2009, 10:43

Of course I know that Mr Cilia. I didn't mean to blame him. I was speaking in general not specifically on this case

Joseph Cauchi

Dec 24th 2009, 10:37

Couldn’t this be a symptom of the political climate we are at present experiencing?

When are our politicians going to stop and divide the nation by inseminating the seeds of division?

This division is causing all the hatred towards one another, when we are practically all related to each other and form the one single family called the “Maltese Family”!

Our politicians must stop from all this political negative propaganda and stop being all the time “negative”.

Is it possible that everything is “black” and there is no “grey” in it?

I think it is about time that all television and radio stations that are run by political parties be banned from this nation. These are the instruments that are causing all this harm, division and hatred amongst us.

Stop it now, and let’s make it a New Year’s resolution.

Merry Christmas, everybody (red, blue, green, pink, etc… etc…)

JC.

Peter Abela

Dec 24th 2009, 10:35

An act to condemn in all ways, irrelevant of political support.

Its Christmas eve!

Clive Bartolo

Dec 24th 2009, 10:34

Shame and Soildarity with the Hon. Galea, his family and staff members. Police please take action and law courts please do inflict heavy sentences for such crimes.

Mary Cini

Dec 24th 2009, 10:32

Why do such things happen? I mean, why do people do such things? What is it that they gain? Here we are talking about l-istrina and then boom someone just makes us remember that some people act irresponsibly. Mr Galea, I truly hope that you and your family have a happy Christmas eve. I will be following your frequent appeals to visit the elderly in homes tomorrow!!

Ian Cilia

Dec 24th 2009, 10:28

@A Abela
Are you blaming Hon Galea and his driver for what happened?

Hon Galea is one of the friendliest chaps in the current administration.

Frank Stivala

Dec 24th 2009, 10:17

Very sorry to see this, Hon Galea is definitely one of the finest chaps in parliament.
It is wrong to do such things...to anyone.

I express my solidarity.

Paul Scicluna

Dec 24th 2009, 10:11

Shame!!!

J Oatmon

Dec 24th 2009, 10:03

This appalling episode, along with the letter bomb tragedy, should focus the public on the fact that there are indeed plenty of evil people in Malta.

I personally reject the idea that somehow because a person has had a tough life, or they don't have the things they want (which others may have), or they are not prepared to really work hard to improve their circumstances- it somehow excuses their crimes.

I think there are plenty of 'career criminals' in Malta who will never change their ways, and they need to be taken off the streets, irrespective of their sob stories, and the blame they put on anyone but themselves.

L.Ciappara

Dec 24th 2009, 10:01

It is supposed to be the time of peace and greetings but quite few people are still nonsence. Sincere greeting to Hon. Mario Galea and his lovely family.

A Abela

Dec 24th 2009, 09:59

It is about time that similar vehicles are placed in garages, because now the taxpayer has to pay for these damages.

J Farrugia

Dec 24th 2009, 09:49

The obscene work of sick minds, in this period of chirstmas. what did they get by this vandalism. More taxes from the people's pockets.