An assassination foretold

In October 2017, Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb in Malta where she lived and worked. Her son Paul, a reporter at Tortoise, says her family were ‘shocked but not surprised’ at her death. How could the assassination of a prominent journalist in an EU country be unsurprising? In the second episode of a four-part series, Paul reveals the chain of events which culminated in his mother’s murder.

Truth to power

Daphne Caruana Galizia was a prolific reporter, juggling dozens of stories at the same time. One of those stories held the secret to her assassination. But which one? Daphne’s son Paul Caruana Galizia, a reporter at Tortoise, sifts through the evidence.

The last domino

Within months, three hitmen were arrested for Daphne's assassination. Then – nothing. For two years it seemed that whichever powerful Maltese interests had ordered her murder might get away with it. Until last November when an extraordinary and unprecedented series of events began to unfold. Daphne’s son Paul was in the country to witness it descend into turmoil, and for questions which his family had been asking for years finally to be answered.