Maltese police officer wrote 'Everyone gets what they deserve, cow dung!' after journalist was blown up on Malta, victim's son reveals as the FBI are asked to help solve the murder

  • Matthew Caruana Galizia has lashed out at police officer over the online remarks
  • He claims that his mother was assassinated and he also hit out at libel lawyers
  • PM Joseph Muscat was also accused of being complicit in his mother's death
  • Muscat said she was his 'biggest adversary' but he still wanted to find the killers
  • The premier said: 'It is unthinkable in a country like Malta to die for your job'

A Maltese police officer has been attacked by the son of a murdered journalist after writing on Facebook that 'everyone gets what they deserve' after she was killed.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, who had been called a 'one-woman Wikileaks', was blown up on Monday after her car was rigged with a bomb.  

Her son, Matthew Caruana Galizia, described the horror of seeing 'body parts all around me' among the wreckage after arriving at the scene of his 53-year-old mother's death, close to her home in Bidnija.

But he also lashed out at the country's 'mafia state', claimed she was 'assassinated' and highlighted the callous post made by one of the investigating officers in the case.

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Matthew Caruana Galizia has lashed out at a policeman who said 'everyone gets what they deserve' after she was murdered. Pictured: Forensic experts investigate the remnants of Galizia's car

Matthew Caruana Galizia has lashed out at a policeman who said 'everyone gets what they deserve' after she was murdered. Pictured: Forensic experts investigate the remnants of Galizia's car

Matthew Caruana Galizia (pictured), himself a journalist, said his mother, Daphne, had been assassinated for doing her job in investigating alleged corruption
Matthew Caruana Galizia, himself a journalist, said his mother, Daphne (pictured), had been assassinated for doing her job in investigating alleged corruption

Matthew Caruana Galizia (left), himself a journalist, said his mother, Daphne (right), was assassinated for doing her job in investigating alleged corruption

Joseph Muscat has said murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia (pictured) was his 'biggest adversary' - but vowed to track down and bring her killers to justice

Joseph Muscat has said murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia (pictured) was his 'biggest adversary' - but vowed to track down and bring her killers to justice

The police sergeant - whose name MailOnline has redacted - wrote: 'Everyone gets what they deserve, cow dung! Feeling happy :)' on Facebook

The police sergeant - whose name MailOnline has redacted - wrote: 'Everyone gets what they deserve, cow dung! Feeling happy :)' on Facebook

The police sergeant - whose name MailOnline has redacted - wrote: 'Everyone gets what they deserve, cow dung! Feeling happy :)'.

Matthew also condemned the 'gang of crooks who conspired with politicians in Malta to financially cripple my mother with one vexatious lawsuit after another'.

In his angry post, he added: 'She was also targeted because she was the only person doing so. This is what happens when the institutions of the state are incapacitated: the last person left standing is often a journalist. 

In his angry post, he said: 'She was also targeted because she was the only person doing so. This is what happens when the institutions of the state are incapacitated: the last person left standing is often a journalist'

In his angry post, he said: 'She was also targeted because she was the only person doing so. This is what happens when the institutions of the state are incapacitated: the last person left standing is often a journalist'

'Which makes her the first person left dead.'

By mentioning the lawsuits she faced, his vitriol extended to London libel lawyers who helped bring cases against her.

She was sued by Nationalist Party opposition leader Adrian Delia after a series of pieces connecting him with a prostitution racket in London.

Economy minister Chris Cardona also claimed defamation when she accused him of visiting a brothel while in Germany. Other politicians have issued rebuttals and explanations of her and her son's allegations. 

Matthew went on to condemn his country's institutions in the post, explaining: 'Yes, this is where we are: a mafia state where you can now change your gender on your ID card (thank God for that!) but where you will be blown to pieces for exercising your basic freedoms. 

'Only for the people who are supposed to have protected you to instead be celebrating it. How did we get here?'.     

Earlier today, meanwhile, the prime minister of Malta said Caruana Galizia was his 'biggest adversary' - but vowed to track down and bring her killers to justice.

Centre-left premier Joseph Muscat attempted to shift the spotlight onto the Nationalist Party, saying it had been the focus of Caruana Galizia's latest investigations.

'It is unthinkable in a country like Malta to die for your job, in Caruana Galizia's case for what she wrote,' he said in an interview with Italian media. 

Muscat (pictured) refused to speculate on who might be behind her death, but said that 'the easiest thing for me to do would be to point the finger against the opposition, the leader of which was the subject of Daphne's latest stories'

Muscat (pictured) refused to speculate on who might be behind her death, but said that 'the easiest thing for me to do would be to point the finger against the opposition, the leader of which was the subject of Daphne's latest stories'

'She was probably my biggest adversary, she attacked me from when I was leader of the opposition. But that was her job,' he told La Repubblica, adding that he had called in 'the FBI and other European security services' to find her killers. 

She had lately used her widely read blog to make a series of detailed allegations of corruption in Muscat's inner circle, some based on the Panama Papers data leak.

Muscat refused to speculate on who might be behind her death, but said that 'the easiest thing for me to do would be to point the finger against the opposition, the leader of which was the subject of Daphne's latest stories'. 

In an interview with La Stampa daily, he raised opposition leader Adrian Delia again, saying the blogger had accused him of 'money laundering, prostitution and more'.

Muscat also said she had written on her blog about receiving threats 'from people in the opposition' over the last month, but that he could not verify the claim. 

In an interview with La Stampa daily, he raised opposition leader Adrian Delia (pictured) again, saying the blogger had accused him of 'money laundering, prostitution and more'

In an interview with La Stampa daily, he raised opposition leader Adrian Delia (pictured) again, saying the blogger had accused him of 'money laundering, prostitution and more'

Her killing has triggered an outpouring of grief on the island - which has a population of just 430,000 people - with thousands turning out to a candlelit vigil in her memory in the fortress capital Valletta

Her killing has triggered an outpouring of grief on the island - which has a population of just 430,000 people - with thousands turning out to a candlelit vigil in her memory in the fortress capital Valletta

Cauana Galizia's killing has sent shock waves around the world, with the United States the latest country to condemn it

Cauana Galizia's killing has sent shock waves around the world, with the United States the latest country to condemn it

Yesterday Delia called on Muscat to step down, accusing him of personally failing to safeguard the journalists life.

Muscat responded to that charge in an interview with Maltese TV, saying he could not impose police protection on someone who did not want it.

Dutch forensic experts also arrived on the island yesterday to aid the investigation.

Police sources said Semtex explosives were believed to have been used in the car bomb, a demolition compound known to be favoured by terrorists in large-scale attacks.

Cauana Galizia's killing has sent shock waves around the world, with the United States the latest country to condemn it.

'It was a cowardly attack that took the life of a talented and brave reporter who dedicated her career to ... shining light on corruption,' said State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert.

'The Government of Malta and Malta police force have been in contact with the FBI about the investigation and the FBI is providing specific assistance.'  

Her killing has triggered an outpouring of grief on the island - which has a population of just 430,000 people - with thousands turning out to a candlelit vigil in her memory in the fortress capital Valletta.

The journalist was the fourth person to die in a Malta car bombing in just over a year but previous attacks were all linked to criminal feuds and did not generate anything like the shock created by Caruana's death.