Updated 1.41pm Adds PN press conference - Prime Minister Joseph Muscat insisted again today that he will wait for the inquiry results before taking any decisions related to the shooting incident involving the home affairs minister's driver. 

Asked whether he trusted the police commissioner after media reports showing tampering of evidence  at the scene of the crime, Dr Muscat said he did not want to undermine the institutions.

The Opposition has been calling on Dr Muscat to fire Dr Mallia. It has also filed a no confidence motion.

Education Minister Evarist Bartolo yesterday used a football analogy to caution fellow MPs not to force the Prime Minister, whom he described as a centre forward, to act as a goalkeeper to prevent their autogoals.

The Prime Minister said Mr Bartolo was correct in his assessment and it was “obvious” to which cases Mr Bartolo was referring.

“As if anyone of us ever wanted something like this to happen,” he said.

PN WANTS CALL LOGS PUBLISHED

Meanwhile, Nationalist Party deputy leader  Beppe Fenech Adami told a press conference in the afternoon that there was "an orchestrated" attempted cover-up the shooting incident.

Referring to a number of reports that appeared in yesterday's newspapers, Dr Fenech Adami said people expected clear explanations.

PN home affairs spokesman Jason Azzopardi called for the publication of the call logs of key people such as Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia, his driver, the Acting Police Commissioner and officials in the Prime Minister's office on the night of the incident.
 
Asked whether the PN trusted the police commissioner, Dr Fenech Adami said he had a lot to answer.

"The Police Commissioner also has to come clean since he was one of the first to know of the incident and there have been serious allegations of misconduct by the police on the night of the incident," Dr Fenech Adami said.

He insisted that Dr Mallia should use tonight's parliamentary sitting, which will debate the Home Affairs Ministry's Budget, to give explanations to the many questions people were asking.

Dr Fenech Adami said the Opposition's motion of no confidence in Dr Mallia should be debated irrespective of the findings of the "three wise judges" appointed by the Prime Minister to investigate allegations of a cover-up.