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A search and rescue mission coordinator from the Armed Forces has told a court that he received orders from his superiors for the pushback of a boatload of migr

Does Neville Gafa live in the Libyan embassy? 5 hours ago Neville Gafa was “operating under Libyan jurisdiction” when he ran Malta’s legally questionable migrant pushback scheme. He was also ‘working from home’ and his car, not at a desk in the OPM. No one’s favourite hot potato seems to believe he’s living inside the Libyan embassy — a slice of sovereign territory that belongs to another country — rather than Mellieħa. He admitted he got his orders from the OPM, but said, “My role was never inside Maltese territorial waters but in Libyan ones, so that jurisdiction appli...

Malta government paid for Libya pushbacks ‘three to four’ times, shipper reveals Carmelo Grech, the owner of the Libyan-flagged fishing vessel Dar Es Salaam 1 has revealed that the Maltese government paid for pushbacks multiple times 19 May 2021, 3:49pm by Matthew Agius The Maltese government paid for pushbacks by the Dar Es Salaam 1 “three to four times”, the vessel’s owner has told a judge this afternoon. Mr Justice Lawrence Mintoff is hearing the case against Prime Minister Robert Abela, National Security and Law Enforcement Minister Byron Camilleri and AFM Brigadier Jeffrey...

Former OPM official Neville Gafá has claimed that he was “operating under Libyan jurisdiction” when he coordinated a pushback of migrants at Malta’s request on Easter Sunday last year.  Gafá, who is currently self-employed since resigning his public post last year, was testifying on Wednesday in constitutional proceedings filed by lawyer Paul Borg Olivier on behalf of 52 asylum seekers. The asylum seekers are suing the Maltese state, claiming their rights were breached when they were pushed back to Libya in April 2020 by a private, Libyan-registered fishing vessel.  NGO AlarmPhone h...