‘I will slap her with a libel,’ Abela warns Daphne
James Debono
MLP deputy leader Toni Abela will be filing for libel over disparaging remarks made by columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia about Labour leader Joseph Muscat.
“I will slap (‘ncapcpilha’) Daphne with the first one in court. This is democracy. She can trash whoever she likes, while whoever is trashed has a right to defend himself,” Abela wrote in his weekly column on l-Orizzont.
Contacted by MaltaToday, Toni Abela confirmed that he will serve Daphne Caruana Galizia with a libel suit in the coming days.
He made it clear that he is not questioning Daphne Caruna Galizia’s “democratic right” to criticise others.
“In order to disagree with others there is no need to ridicule and literally take away their dignity.”
Caruana Galizia went as far as describing the Labour leader as a “vagina” - using the highly obscene Maltese Semitic version, albeit crudely misspelt - on her online blog, in an article about the GWU rally for shipyard workers.
In the same article, Caruana Galizia described Sammy Meilaq as “an ugly bastard”, and Manwel Cuschieri as having the “face and personality” of Frankenstein’s monster.
In other recent comments on blogs, she hinted that males who approved of the new Labour leader were closet homosexuals, and even speculated openly about the colour of Joseph Muscat’s pubic hair.
The clash between the two bloggers continued over the past weeks after Toni Abela took umbrage at Caruana Galizia for criticising fellow journalists for blowing out of proportion the discovery of a mouse head in a plate served Mater Dei .
“We live in a world of rodents and Daphne, being more than familiar with all the mice and rats scurrying in the corridors of Tal-Pieta’ and Castille, wouldn’t mind finding one of them in her cuppa while sipping her afternoon tea,” Abela wrote in his blog.
Toni Abela also dedicated to Daphne one of the most gruesome and revolting scenes from Monty Python’s film “The Meaning Of Life”.
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