MT incident archive
Source-backed homicide and attempted homicide records documented in MT. This page summarizes the archive's documented floor for the country; it is not an official total or a representative sample.
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- Documented records
- 1
- Cities represented
- 1
- Latest incident date
- 16 October 2017
- Latest review
- 18 September 2026
Documented floor by year
| Year | Documented here | Official reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 record | — |
No Eurostat reference series is currently loaded for MT.
Current judicial status
- 1Convicted
Latest judicial-status entries
- Bidnija, MT
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Latest documented records
- Homicide in bidnija, MT
· Convicted · 5 sources
An investigative journalist was killed in Bidnija, Malta, on 16 October 2017, when a bomb placed in her car exploded shortly after she left her home. The commemoration held each year at the scene takes place at three in the afternoon, the time she was killed. Her father has described paid assassins watching and waiting from across the valley from the family home in the days before the attack. The two men who carried out the bombing pleaded guilty at the opening of their trial on 14 October 2022 and were each sentenced to forty years' imprisonment. Their appeal, in which they sought to have the sentence quashed and a fresh trial held, was dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal on 22 November 2023. A third man had been sentenced to fifteen years in February 2021, a reduced term granted in recognition of the information he gave about this killing and about the killing of a lawyer in 2015. On 22 January 2026 the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeals of four further men convicted in connection with this killing and that of the lawyer; two of them were convicted of complicity in the journalist's killing and of possessing explosive material. On 2 September 2026 a jury acquitted, by an eight-to-one majority, the businessman accused of commissioning the killing. Prosecutors had alleged that he paid an intermediary €150,000 to arrange it. Under Maltese law an appeal against a jury acquittal is restricted to specific legal grounds, including serious procedural irregularities or a manifestly wrong application of the law; the prosecution has said it intends to appeal. On 16 September 2026, nine years after the killing, thousands marched through Valletta to renew calls for justice, gathering in front of parliament and moving to the journalist's protest memorial opposite the court building. The home affairs minister said police would be given whatever resources, equipment or foreign assistance they requested for any further investigations, while insisting investigators must be left to work independently.