The suspension of a detention service officer who reportedly described detained African migrants as “monkeys at a fence” was tantamount to intimidation and would condition other witnesses in the case of two soldiers accused of killing escaped Malian migrant Mamadou Kamara.

Lawyers Giannella de Marco, Steve Tonna Lowell and Joe Giglio this morning filed a note in the acts of the murder compilation of Gunner Clive Cuschieri, 29, of Paola, and Sergeant Mark Anthony Dimech, 44, of Gżira, notifying the court that according to an article by Patrick Cooke in The Sunday Times, a witness in the case was suspended.

This, they said, was tantamount to intimidation and would condition other witnesses in the case.

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