Election injuries court case to be re-opened

The court case against two Labour supporters who allegedly attacked and injured two Nationalist counting agents during last year's European Parliament elections will resume despite having been closed by a magistrate last November.

Edwin Bartolo, also known as Il-Qaħbu, and Salvatore Mifsud also known as Tal-Qattus, were summoned to appear in court in November in connection with a fight that allegedly occurred in Żejtun on June 6.

However the presiding Magistrate, Antonio Micallef Trigona, said he had been informed that the parties involved had no further interest in the case and he dismissed it. A sign of this lack of interest was also shown by their absence when called to appear.

The Attorney General appealed the judgment.

Chief Justice Vincent De Gaetano, sitting in the Criminal Appeals Court, yesterday ruled that the case had been instituted by the police and therefore the court could not, on a presumption that there was no further interest in it by the victims, declare the case closed.

Mr Chief Justice De Gaetano, therefore, reverted the case to its previous stage for it to be heard again.