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Man on trial for Daphne Caruana Galizia murder claims he was framed

Yorgen Fenech tells jury he had nothing to do with killing and alleges top adviser to Malta’s then PM was instigator A businessman on trial for the murder of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has spoken about the charges for the first time in court since his arrest seven years ago, telling the jury he was framed by police and had nothing to do with the killing. During four days of questioning by defence and the p

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#2799
First seen
26 Aug 2026, 04:13 UTC
Last checked
26 Aug 2026, 13:59 UTC
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Publisher layer

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Publisher
The Guardian
Country
England / United Kingdom
Source published
26 Aug 2026, 04:00 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Juliette Garside, and Julian Bonnici in Valletta
Section
Daphne Caruana Galizia
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Yorgen Fenech tells jury he had nothing to do with killing and alleges top adviser to Malta’s then PM was instigator A businessman on trial for the murder of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has spoken about the charges for the first time in court since his arrest seven years ago, telling the jury he was framed by police and had nothing to do with the killing. During four days of questioning by defence and the p
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    Man on trial for Daphne Caruana Galizia murder claims he was framed

    Yorgen Fenech tells jury he had nothing to do with killing and alleges top adviser to Malta’s then PM was instigator A businessman on trial for the murder of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has spoken about the charges for the first time in court since his arrest seven years ago, telling the jury he was framed by police and had nothing to do with the killing. During four days of questioning by defence and the p

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  • machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
  • machine language-signal Allegation language observable-rules-v1 / 65% rule confidence
  • publisher category Daphne Caruana Galizia rss-category
  • publisher category Europe rss-category
  • publisher category Malta rss-category
  • publisher category Media rss-category
  • publisher category World news rss-category
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Capture ID
#2620
Observed
26 Aug 2026, 04:13 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
483,362 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt