Malta acquits Fenech in Caruana Galizia murder case

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58 min agoA court in Valletta acquitted Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech of complicity in the 2017 car-bomb killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia after a jury voted 8-1 in his favor on both charges. Fenech had spent more than five years in preventive detention after his arrest in November 2019 before being released on bail in February 2025.