Road menace Maximilian Ciantar was this morning granted bail against a deposit of €1,000 and a personal guarantee of €10,000.

Mr Ciantar was arrested earlier this month accused of violating a driving ban, causing an accident and threatening the driver of the other car in Hamrun.

He is arguing this was a minor traffic accident in which door mirrors were hit.

In the last court sitting, Mr Ciantar told Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit that if a bomb went off in a church and he had a car accident at the same time, his accident would be reported first.

Maximilian Ciantar was at the centre of a public outcry when he ran over twin girls in Attard in 2011.

He was released from prison after serving 16 months of his two-year jail term following the Attard incident and his 10-year driving ban was reduced to 16 months.

But one month later he was found driving in breach of that ban. He was granted bail but ran into more problems when he attempt to assault a journalist covering his court case. His bail was revoked.

In February 2012, days after he was released from prison, he was fined €800 for heroin possession. He had previously been found guilty of heroin possession and fined €600.

Mr Ciantar, who is banned from driving, has also been placed under a curfew and has to sign in daily at his local police station.

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