The bronze bust of Lorenzo Gonzi, the Prime Minister’s grandfather, was pushed off its stone pedestal in a vandal act. The monument, erected in 1995, is located in Holy Family Square, Kalkara opposite the Holy Family Band Club, of which Mro Gonzi was founding bandmaster in 1914.
Kalkara mayor Michael Cohen condemned the vandalism, saying the perpetrator or perpetrators of this “cowardly act” was “not worthy of forming part of civil society and have to be punished”.
The police are investigating.