The Murder That Shook Europe

00:01 The Murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia 07:52 The Trial Of Yorgen Fenech 20:14 The Verdict On 16th October 2017, a bomb planted under her car seat killed journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia minutes after she left her Bidnija home. Nine years, seven trials, and one of the most closely watched cases in Malta’s history later, a jury has finally delivered a verdict on the man accused of ordering it. We’ve now published a full rundown of the case, filmed in three parts across the different stages of the trial. Part One: The Murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia Caruana Galizia was Malta’s most-read writer, running an unfiltered blog that outpaced every newspaper in the country – and made her plenty of enemies along the way. In 2016, a cryptic post led to the Panama Papers, exposing secret companies linked to the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Keith Schembri. A year later, another post pointed to a Dubai company, 17 Black, eventually traced to businessman Yorgen Fenech and an alleged kickback scheme worth €150,000 a month. Hours after publishing her final story, she was killed. Part Two: The Trial Of Yorgen Fenech The hitmen and bomb suppliers were identified and convicted within a few years. The far harder question – who commissioned the killing – centred on middleman Melvin Theuma, whose secretly recorded conversations with Fenech became the backbone of the case, and whose pardon helped bring Fenech to trial for conspiracy to murder and criminal association. That trial finally opened in July 2026 and ran for 55 days, with over 100 witnesses, including Fenech himself, testifying publicly for the first time since his 2019 arrest, and a defence-versus-prosecution clash that came down to two competing lines: “all roads lead to Keith” against “all roads lead to Yorgen.” Part Three: The Verdict After roughly eight hours of deliberation, the jury returned 8–1: not guilty on both charges. The reaction split the courtroom instantly, and outside it, the country. It’s left as many questions as it answered: what happens now to Theuma’s pardon, whether anyone else could still face charges, and whether the person who ordered Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder will ever be held responsible. The full story – the recordings, the testimony, the reversals, and everything that led to that verdict – is in the video.