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The European Union's smallest member state is in crisis over the unsolved murder of a prominent investigative journalist. Two government ministers on the island of Malta have resigned, and the prime minister's own chief of staff has been arrested. All three deny being involved in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. She died in a car bombing two years ago. Joanna Kakissis dug into the unsolved murder for us last year and has been following the developments. She's on the line with us from Athens.

Hey, Joanna.

JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE¹: Hey, Ailsa.

CHANG: So tell us a little more about this journalist. Who was she? And how was she viewed in Malta?

KAKISSIS: So Daphne Caruana Galizia was Malta's most prominent journalist. She wrote about fuel smuggling², organized crime, money laundering³. She also combed through the leaked law firm records known as the Panama Papers, and she found offshore⁴ wealth tied to the inner circle of Malta's prime minister, Joseph Muscat. So she got a lot of death threats. She got sued a lot. A government minister even froze her bank accounts. And, you know, it all came to a tragic⁵ end on October 16, 2017, just outside her village. I remember talking to her son about the day she died. He had heard this huge explosion as she drove away from their house.

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MATTHEW CARUANA GALIZIA: I knew this was a car bomb straight away. I tried calling my mother on her phone. Obviously, it didn't ring. When I got there, there was just so much destruction and so much fire.

KAKISSIS: And since that day, her family has never stopped talking very publicly and all over the world about her murder. They want to know who was behind it. They want justice. And they blame the government of Prime Minister Muscat for blocking that justice. They say, you know, these people have something to hide.

CHANG: Well, what about the rest of the Maltese public? I mean, do you get the sense that there are a lot of people out there who believe the prime minister is responsible for this murder?

KAKISSIS: Well, you know, it really depends on who you ask. I mean, Malta's a deeply divided place politically. Those who like Joseph Muscat and the center-left Labor⁶ Party are utterly⁷ devoted⁸ to him. But the other half of Malta, they believe the government is corrupt⁹ and is covering up the murder of a very brave truth-teller, and they want Muscat to resign. You know, here was the scene yesterday in the capital, Valletta.

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UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Shouting in non-English language).

CHANG: What are they shouting?

KAKISSIS: They're shouting — the protesters are shouting Mafia, Mafia, just as Muscat is leaving his office. They threw eggs and coins at him, and that's after his top aide and two of the government ministers left their jobs.

CHANG: So do these recent resignations — and also the rest of the prime minister's chief of staff — do these events give people the sense that there is evidence tying these men to the murder?

KAKISSIS: You know, that's not clear yet, but what is clear is that the probe into Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder is finally widening to include Malta's most powerful people. You know, these are the very people she investigated as a journalist, so that's a lot of pressure on Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. But he's not resigning. He denies involvement in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, and he says he wants to, quote, "navigate¹⁰ the country through this crisis."

CHANG: That is reporter Joanna Kakissis.

Thank you, Joanna.

KAKISSIS: You're welcome, Ailsa.

CHANG: She joined us via Skype.

欧盟最小的成员国正处于危机之中，原因是著名调查记者遭谋杀一案仍未解决。岛国马耳他的两名政府部长已经辞职，总理办公室主任被捕。三人均否认与达芙妮·卡鲁阿纳·加利奇亚的谋杀案有关。加利奇亚死于两年前的一场汽车爆炸袭击。乔安娜·卡基西斯曾在去年为我们详细介绍这起未决谋杀案，她一直在追踪事件进展。现在她将从雅典和我们连线。

你好，乔安娜。

乔安娜·卡基西斯连线：你好，阿尔萨。

张：请详细介绍一下这名记者。她是谁？她在马耳他有何评价？

卡基西斯：达芙妮·卡鲁阿纳·加利奇亚曾是马耳他最知名的记者。她曾发表涉及燃油走私、有组织犯罪和洗钱的文章。她还梳理了律师事务所外泄的文件，即“巴拿马文件”，她发现海外财富与马耳他总理约瑟夫·穆斯卡特的核心集团有联系。她因此收到了大量死亡威胁。也因此多次被起诉。一名政府部长甚至冻结了她的银行账户。而她最终在2017年10月16日以悲剧结局，她的遇害地就在自已的家乡附近。我和她的儿子谈过她遇害那天的事情，我现在还记得他的回答。在她开车离开家时，她儿子听到了巨大的爆炸声。

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马修·卡鲁阿纳·加利奇亚：我马上就意识到这是一起汽车炸弹袭击。我尝试打我妈妈的手机。显然，并没有打通。我到事发地时，现场燃烧着熊熊大火，满目疮痍。

卡基西斯：她遇害之后，她的家人从未停止过在世界各地的公开场合提及她遭谋杀一事。他们想知道谁是幕后黑手。他们想要公正。他们指责马耳他总理穆斯卡特阻止公正。他们认为这些政府人士有所隐瞒。

张：那马耳他民众有何看法？是否有很多人认为总理要为这起谋杀案负责？

卡基西斯：这要取决于你询问的对象。马耳他是在政治上极度分裂的国家。约瑟夫·穆斯卡特的支持者以及中左翼工党对其忠心耿耿。但其他马耳他人则认为，政府存在腐败问题，而且在掩盖勇于说实话者遭谋杀一事的真相，他们希望穆斯卡特辞职。以下是马耳他首都瓦莱诺昨天的情况。

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身份不明的抗议者：（用非英语语言大喊）。

张：他们在喊什么？

卡基西斯：抗议者在喊“黑手党”、“黑手党”，就好像穆斯卡特已经离职一样。穆斯卡特的首席助理以及两名政府官员辞职后，他们向穆斯卡特投掷鸡蛋和硬币。

张：这些辞职事件以及总理办公室主任遭逮捕一事，是否使人们认为有证据表明这些人与谋杀案有关？

卡基西斯：这一点目前还不清楚，但现在可以确定的是，达芙妮·卡鲁阿纳·加利奇亚谋杀案的调查范围终于扩大到马耳他最有权势者。记者加利奇亚曾调查过这些人，因此，这使总理约瑟夫·穆斯卡特面临大量压力。但他不会辞职。他否认与达芙妮·卡鲁阿纳·加利奇亚谋杀案有牵连，他说他希望“引领国家度过这场危机”。

张：以上是记者乔安娜·卡基西斯带来的报道。

谢谢你，乔安娜。

卡基西斯：不客气，阿尔萨。

张：以上是她通过Skype和我们进行的连线。