Intolerance is ‘a disease that must be defeated’ – Muscat
Opposition leader Joseph Muscat yesterday paid tribute to Karin Grech and Raymond Caruana, casualties of the political violence that rocked Malta in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Labour leader was attending a remembrance service for Karin Grech at San Gwann’s parish church, just across the road from the Karin Grech monument.
Grech, aged 15, was killed in a letter bomb attack addressed to her father, Prof. Edwin Grech: perceived to be a strike-breaker during the doctors’ strike of 1977. The case was never solved.
Raymond Caruana was killed by anonymous gunmen in a drive-by shooting on the PN’s Gudja club in December 1986.
“The murders of Karin Grech and Raymond Caruana were crimes of political intolerance. This intolerance is a cruel disease that the Maltese and Gozitans must persist in defeating,” Muscat said.
“This was not red or blue blood… this was innocent blood that was shed,” the Opposition leader continued.
After the service, Muscat and Prof Edwin Grech held a brief ceremony at the Karin Grech monument.
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