On numerous occasions EU Commissioner John Dalli has asked the Malta
police to investigate one thing or another. His most recent demand was to
investigate internet blogs that he claims targeted him maliciously. He expects
the Malta police to bring criminal charges against those who publish the truth
about him.
Well, John Dalli is an expert at knowing what malicious means,
especially in my (Joseph Ellul-Grech) case when he falsely and maliciously accused
me of sending 20, 000 anonymous letters claiming to defame him. I was acquitted
of all the charges that he and the police brought against me. In his summing up
the Judge confirmed that there was not a shred of evidence that connected me to
this crime.
EU Commissioner John
Dalli failed to name the blogs he considers to be defamatory and malicious.
Obviously the truth hurts and the King of Malicious himself does not like to
see anything published that shows him up for what he really is, a lowlife
compulsive liar, a bully and a hypocrite.
John Dalli tends to have a
wicked and vivid imagination. In October 2011 he accused
a
TV presenter of being “part of clique that ‘programmed’ his resignation when he
was a minister without having any evidence to support his
accusations. He claimed “they wanted me politically dead.”
In July 2012 he came out with the story of email attacks and anonymous blogs and attacks against him.
In August 2012 he claimed that his email account was hacked allegedly
pointing his finger at the EU Office in Malta.
In September 2012 he claimed “This
is how our Christian Democrats refer to me by adding BA on to my name and
surname so that J Dalli BA reads like ‘ġej dal-liba’.” This
is quite offensive to a Maltese speaking national. Anyway, who cares?
It was also published that he had reported the hacking and anonymous blogs to the Malta Police. Later it turns out that he had only reported the blogs. No one from Malta hacked into his email account and there where other big heads in Brussels that had their email accounts hacked.
If it is my blogs that he is complaining about the police do not have to
investigate. All my blogs are published with my name on them and they are
supported by documents. I do not use various tools and mechanisms to cloak my
identity. I also do not make any allegations unless I have evidence to support
those allegations.
By making false and malicious accusations against me he gave me the
right to reply. I have done this in my blogs. It is called Freedom of Speech.
John Dalli appears to have a problem with Freedom of Speech. He wants the Malta
Police to prosecute anyone exercising their right to this when he doesn’t agree
with what they are saying. He does not agree with what I say in my blogs, but
it is my right to say it.
According to this article published in Malta Today the police claim
jurisdiction problems are hindering their investigation into John Dalli’s
poison blogs. This means that the police would bring criminal charges against
the writer if it fell into their jurisdiction.
In all western and civilized nations defamation is a civil matter, not
criminal. Bringing a civil matter to court in any country would be very costly
for the litigant. Anyone seeking litigation “must come with hands clean.” John
Dalli is not Mr Clean.
This is the predicament John Dalli has found himself in with the
“malicious blogs” he is complaining about. He may be between a rock and a hard
place with this. He may have no alternative than to leave the blogger alone.
That would truly be a victory for Freedom of Speech.
John Dalli stated, "If the police really want to take action,
then nothing should get in their way."
I agree with that. If the police
really want to take action, then nothing should get in their way of
investigating John Dalli’s involvement in the Daewoo and Anonymous letters
scandals. However, the Police have a conflict of interest in both cases and
they are not known for their unbiased and unprejudiced investigations.
In the case of the anonymous letters that I was accused of by John
Dalli, all the evidence points to him as the instigator. He was in possession
of the bank statements, he had the motive and the resources to organize such a
pathetic crime to cover up his involvement in the Daewoo scandal, from which he
received a backhander. (Evidence to support this exists).
Three teams have been assigned to the police
investigation: the Economic Crimes Unit, the Police Legal Office and the Cyber
Crime Unit. "The assistance of several investigative units was drafted in
to carry out enquiries in relation to this case," the spokesman said.
"These included the ECU, which had handled the
criminal investigation mentioned in the blogs, the legal office that drafted
out the necessary requests to foreign competent authorities and the CCU which carried
out the technical aspects of such investigations."
This is another confirmation of wasting police time and
resources, which is a criminal offence in most countries. It seems John Dalli
is clutching at straws and like a desperate man he is driven to take desperate
measures.
John Dalli seems to be determined to bring criminal charges
against anyone who writes anything negative about him. However, he neglects to
insist on an impartial investigation into the anonymous letters “no matter the
costs” as he had promised at the time he and the police brought charges against
me.
I (Joseph Ellul-Grech) was the only person that was
investigated by the Economic Crime Unit in a case that involved EU Commissioner
John Dalli as well (the anonymous letters case). It could only be assumed that
this ARROGANT EU Commissioner is complaining about one of my blogs titled “John Dalli A Corrupt EU Commissioner”.
Yes, this person is as ARROGANT as they come because despite
the fact that I was acquitted of all the charges that he and the police brought
against me, he never had the COMMON SENSE to apologise. Neither did the
police.
The manner that EU Commissioner John Dalli continues to
insist on bringing criminal charges against anyone who writes the truth about
him confirms that he is a threat to DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
