Quotes of the week

“This is the rape of the nation’s soul.”

Nationalist MP Franco Debono reacting to the Cabinet reshuffle and urging the Prime Minister to call an early election as he will not support “this nonsense”.

“Nicky was my baby... It is devastating, even for the other guy’s family.”

Tanya Gera, the adoptive mother of Nicholas, who was found dead in the Sliema penthouse of Duncan Zammit, grappling with questions as to why the two young men died in a violent knife fight on New Year’s Day.

“I will forgive him. I have to find peace.”

Maria Zammit, Duncan’s mother, trying to find the strength to forgive her son’s aggressor, Nicholas Gera, after the New Year’s double fatal stabbings.

“I am certainly not hiding... I am working.”

Sliema mayor Joanna Gonzi reacting to councillors’ accusations that she was unreachable, adding a meeting will be held to discuss the council’s future as it faces threat of dissolution.

“Unjustified.”

Mepa turns down a highly contested application to build an Enemalta substation as it would further consolidate illegal boathouses in Armier.

“Everything was orchestrated.”

Josephine Bickle, nicknamed the ‘Queen of Prison’, appealing her sentence and insisting the four witnesses who testified against her corroborated each other’s untruths.