Five hundred days after the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the masterminds of her murder were still enjoying impunity and power, Reżistenza Malta said on Thursday.

The pressure group placed a placard in Bidnija on the 500th day anniversary of her death saying 

In a statement, it said no journalist was ever murdered for a lie, but in revenge to the truth they uncovered or to stop them from discovering and exposing uncomfortable truths.

If one felt slandered, he had a legal remedy to expose the deceit of the accuser. It was only in respect of truthful allegations that one did not have a legal remedy.

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The organisation said it was evident that whoever ordered Ms Caruana Galizia’s murder was no common criminal. On the contrary, the masterminds were powerful enough to buy the silence of others.

At the same time, it was with regret that one observed that the majority of local journalists behaved as though the search for truth with regard to this crime was the exclusivity of the police force.

"Media too has the moral duty to investigate such a horrendous crime and to verify whether the police are doing everything in their power to identify and prosecute every person who was involved in the murder and whether the crime could have been prevented."

Reżistenza said it had been a long time since somebody cited the million euro reward that had been promised to anyone who would help to identify those involved in the assassination.

It was not only the case that not enough was being done to find the masterminds of the assassination, but Malta’s institutions no longer cared to convince the public that this was being done.

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