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Galizia Killed For Exposing Corruption, Alleges Son  

Valletta (October 18, 2017): The son of Malta’s best-known investigative journalist said on Tuesday that his mother was killed by a car bomb because of her work exposing political corruption.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, who wrote about graft across Malta’s political divides on her blog, was murdered on Monday soon after she left her home in the north of the island.

Matthew Caruana Galizia, the son of renowned journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia said on facebook, “My mother was assassinated because she stood between the rule of law and those who sought to violate it, like many strong journalists.

“She was also targeted because she was the only person doing so,” he added. The explosion, which blasted the car off the road into a field near the village of Bidnija, stunned the small Mediterranean island. Authorities said it was the first murder of a journalist there.

Around 3,000 people held a silent, candle-lit vigil on Monday night in Sliema, just outside the capital Valletta.

Maltese authorities were awaiting the arrival of Dutch forensic experts and American FBI agents on Tuesday to help the investigations.

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