No proceedings against journalist, but magistrate sounds warning on Fenech texts
A court has turned down a request by Yorgen Fenech’s lawyers seeking action for contempt against a Times of Malta journalist who wrote how a local producer allegedly turned to the businessman for help in the run up to the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. But the court stressed there was to be no publication of data from the phone of the man charged with complicity in Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder and that any such publication would amount to contempt of court. The request concerned a story published on May 30, featuring well-known producer Anton Attard who allegedly sought to manipulate betting odds in such way as to boost the odds for Malta’s contestant. The story sparked a reaction by Fenech’s lawyers who, one week later, filed an application before the magistrate presiding over the compilation of evidence against the businessman. They sought action against the author of that story, Jacob Borg, for allegedly breaching a court order which had banned publication of all data retrieved from Fenech’s mobile phone. While reiterating and stressing that ban, Magistrate Rachel Montebello observed that this particular case did not pose any immediate harm to the interests at play and...