After Mary Gauci’s billboard vandalism earlier this week, Roberta Metsola Tedesco Triccas has become the second MEP hopeful to fall victim to a little crude manipulation in the ongoing European election campaign. The Nationalist Party candidate’s entry on Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia, was yesterday ‘edited’ to include a somewhat unflattering description among to all the usual biographical details.
“Roberta Metsola Tedesco Triccas (born January 18, 1979) is a Nationalist Party (Partit Nazzjonalista) candidate for the 2009 European Parliament elections in Malta,” the entry begins... to which someone added in Maltese: “U hija l*** imgiddma”.
A precise English translation would be too obscene even for this newspaper: suffice it to say that the message is clearly intended as an insult, and one can safely conclude that whoever added it will not be voting Tedesco Triccas on Saturday.
As for the rest of the entry, it carries on in the same tone as before it was rudely interrupted: “She has two sons, Luca and Alec, and is married to Ukko Metsola... Professionally she is a lawyer and has specialised in European law and politics...”
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The Nationalist Party candidate’s entry on Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia, was yesterday ‘edited’ to include a somewhat unflattering description among to all the usual biographical details.
