No group or individual has come forward to claim responsibility for the attack according to news accounts at this writing.
ICIJ’s thoughts are with the Caruana Galizia family at this time.” For the Panama Papers, a series of stories using a collaboration of more than 300 reporters on six continents to expose the hidden infrastructure and global. By September 2013, journalists from 190 countries had produced stories from the database about prominent citizens who had hidden offshore accounts. Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption on the tiny island nation in the Mediterranean, was killed by a car bomb on Monday. Caruana Galizia, 53, ran a hugely popular blog in which she relentlessly highlighted cases of alleged high-level. The Panama Papers refer to the 11.5 million documents that were leaked from large offshore law firm. “ICIJ calls upon the Maltese authorities to investigate the murder and bring the perpetrators to justice. VALLETTA, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltas best-known investigative journalist, was killed on Monday when a powerful bomb blew up her car, police said, in a case that stunned the small Mediterranean island. A journalist leading the Panama Papers investigation in Malta was killed by a car bomb. “ICIJ condemns violence against journalists and is deeply concerned about freedom of the press in Malta,” wrote its director, Gerard Ryle. ICIJ released a statement condemning the attack: German journalists Bastian Obermayer (R) and Frederik Obermaier (L) co-authors of the socalled 'Panama Papers' investigation pose on Apin Munich, southern Germany, at the office of the. John Dunbar, CEO of the Center condemned the attack, saying it was “not only a tragic killing of a courageous journalist but an attack on the profession as a whole. the international consortium of investigative journalists (icij), together with the german newspaper suddeutsche zeitung and more than 100 other media partners, including the african network of centers for investigative reporting (ancir), spent a year sifting through 11. ICIJ spun off from the Center for Public Integrity earlier this year. She was also the mother of International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) developer and data journalist Matthew Caruana Galizia. Local media reports indicated that in recent days she had filed a police report complaining of death threats.Ĭaruana Galizia was a fearless journalist and blogger who exposed numerous offshore dealings of prominent figures in Malta.
News sources today are reporting the tragic death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a journalist who reported on the Panama Papers investigation and was renowned for her own investigations into corruption in Malta.Ĭaruana Galizia, 53, was reportedly killed in a car bombing near her home.