The biggest lesson should be learnt from the incidents in Tal-Barrani road 30 years ago: leaders of political parties should keep their supporters away from where trouble is brewing. If the then leader of the opposition, Eddie Fenech Adami, planned that day’s meeting somewhere else instead of Żejtun the incidents would have been avoided.
Wasn’t the safety of his supporters more important than holding a Nationalist Party meeting in a Labour Party stronghold? It can be compared to Barack Obama holding a meeting in Alabama. Would it be feasible?