Daphne murder: ‘I hope Keith Schembri was on my side’ – Joseph Muscat
Joseph Muscat has refused to outright rule out whether Keith Schembri was leaking sensitive information to suspects in the Daphne Caruana Galizia assassination investigation In an interview on the final episode of the ‘Who killed Daphne’ podcast, the former prime minister said he “honestly would not know” if Schembri, his then chief of staff, leaked information. “I trusted him, and… I thought, as I still hope, that he was on my side on this. In the sense, on the side of the state. I still hope that is the case,” Muscat said. Questioned if he was politically naïve to keep Schembri by his side, Muscat said that, while it may have been the case, the end result was that the police still did their job and he paid the political price. Schembri has been quoted in Malta Today as saying that he does not think Muscat's was disowning him with his words on the podcast. “I have heard the clip many times and I disagree,” he told the news outlet. Muscat believed Schembri's assurances on 17 Black Muscat stepped down weeks after Yorgen Fenech, the suspected mastermind, was arrested in November 2019. During his time in office, Muscat persistently denied ever speaking to Schembri about his...