Court to continue hearing EP polling day incidents case

The Court of Criminal Appeal has decided that a case instituted by the police against Edwin Bartolo and Salvatore Mifsud over alleged incidents during the European Parliament election last year should continue.

Last November the Magistrates Court had decided that the case was closed after the alleged victims of the incidents did not turn up and the court was informed that there was no interest to take the case further.

However the Attorney General appealed.

Chief Justice Vincent DeGaetano, presiding the Criminal Appeals Court, said this case had been instituted by the police and the court could not, on a presumption that there was no further interest in the case by the victims, declare the case closed.

The case would therefore revert to the stage it had reached.

Bartolo and Mifsud are alleged to have assaulted Grazzio Bondin and Joseph Brownrigg, slightly injuring the former.