Background research
Reports and Investigations
The timeline records what happened and when. These four records explain the material behind it: the state inquiry into the killing, the underlying evidence, Malta's press freedom record and the European legal response. Each page is written for a general reader and every claim carries its citation.
Board of inquiry, 2019 to 2021
The Public Inquiry
The independent inquiry into whether the state could have prevented the assassination: how it was set up, who testified, and what the board concluded.
5 findings
The board presented its report to Prime Minister Robert Abela on 29 July 2021. The report runs to several hundred pages and was published in Maltese, with an English translation.
Quotes and documents
Evidence Log
Every quoted passage and evidence summary used across this site, from court records, the inquiry, leaked documents and published investigations, each dated and located.
77 entries
Each entry carries a page or paragraph locator where the source provides one.
Rankings and recognition
Press Freedom Record
Malta's World Press Freedom Index position over time set against comparable EU states, and the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize awarded by the European Parliament.
10 years tracked, 5 prize editions
Index methodology changed in 2022, so ranks either side of that year are not directly comparable.
Law and institutions
EU Rule of Law Response
How the inquiry findings and the European Parliament's response fed into the anti-SLAPP directive, the European Media Freedom Act and the Commission's rule of law reporting.
13 measures tracked
Legislative causation is described as attributed, not proven.
Source library
Press Archive
Every article, court document, judgment, inquiry paper and institutional report cited anywhere on this site, searchable by keyword, outlet, type and publication date.
146 cited sources
Sources with no recorded publication date are hidden when a date range is applied.
Download the sources
Every citation used across this site, with the outlet, title, URL, date, source type and the entries that rely on it, plus the methodology rules applied to each entry. Provided for transparency and independent verification.
How to read these pages
Findings of a public inquiry are not criminal verdicts; they establish state responsibility, not individual guilt. Testimony is recorded as testimony. Where a source is an outlet index rather than a specific document, the citation indicator says so. Every page links back to the timeline and the court record.