Mourners have left flowers and a sign thanking Dom Mintoff outside his house in Tarxien. “Now they will no longer be calling for you to be crucified. Rest in peace,” the sign says, referring to a 1980s PN mass meeting at a time when the former PM was strongly reviled by Nationalists for his democratic failings.

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