Magisterial inquiries in Malta have proved to be a whitewash in most cases, adding insult to injury by covering up government authorities’ scandals rather than exposing the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
What is to be expected of the second magisterial inquiry about this case? Would one magistrate obtain a different finding to that of the other magistrate? Would these magistrates who have been appointed by the government seek to find out and expose police brutality under the present government, when this had been a favourite criticism directed to a previous government?
Ideally, such an inquiry should have been conducted by an independent committee, similar to that conducted in the US where a senate committee is entrusted and empowered to seek the truth at all costs (sometimes even at the detriment to the party in power).
Magisterial inquiries in Malta are a joke.

Raymond Sammut
Mellieha