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Julian Manduca
“I never offered Mintoff the Inquisitors Palace at Girgenti, no more than I ever offered him the Great Wall of China.” These are the words of former President of Malta Guido de Marco replying to MaltaToday when asked whether the report in It-Torca of Sunday claiming that he had offered feisty former premier Mintoff the Girgenti palace was true.
MaltaToday had previously reported that Dom Mintoff claimed to have been offered the Inquisitors Palace - without specifying which one or by whom - in his court appeal against the Lm360,000 compensation offered for the violation of his rights following the decision to build the Delimara power station next to his summer house L-Gharix.
When MaltaToday contacted de Marco this week he said he was surprised to read the report. According to it-Torca: “from an affidavit taken this time from his lawyer Dr John Attard Montalto, it results that the former Deputy Prime Minister, Professor Guido de Marco had once offered Mintoff the Inquisitor’s Palace at Girgenti instead of L-Gharix.” But Guido de Marco denied that he had ever made any offers to Mintoff, telling MaltaToday that when he first read the report in It-Torca he thought it was “a joke.” De Marco told this paper that he may have discussed the compensation issue with Mintoff, but was never in a position to make offers.
julian@newsworksltd.com
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