Malta

Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia's sons Matthew and Paul carry the coffin of their mother

The car bomb and the journalist: the murder that showed the ‘Two Maltas’

Conflict

It was just before three o’clock in the afternoon on Oct. 16 when Malta’s most famous, outspoken blogger got into her car for what was to be the last time. Minutes later, a bomb planted under the driver’s seat flung the vehicle into a field beside the road. Daphne Caruana Galizia, who’d relentlessly attacked corruption in the tiny island nation, was dead.