One of the men facing trial over the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, is challenging as unconstitutional the law empowering the Security Service to tap phone calls.
George Degiorgio on Wednesday filed a constitutional application in the wake of a judicial protest touching upon the same subject matter two months ago.
In August, Mr Degiorgio and his brother Alfred, a co-accused, had called on the authorities to produce evidence of telephone intercepts that the prosecution had “bragged about” throughout the compilation of evidence.
The Attorney General and the Commissioner of Police were called to produce those intercepts, which had allegedly been crucial in targeting them and the third suspect, Vincent Muscat, linking them to the explosion that killed Caruana Galizia on October 16, 2017.
Throughout the murder compilation, the prosecution made reference to snippets from the alleged telephone intercepts, spurring sensational reporting by the media, lawyer William Cuschieri said in the application. Yet no recordings or transcripts were ever presented to prove the existence of the said intercepts or to prove that the intercepts had been effected under a warrant, duly...
