Muscat 'sowed the seeds for Lassana Cisse murder' - Fenech Adami

Opposition MP Beppe Fenech Adami has accused Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of sowing the seeds for the murder of Ivorian migrant Lassana Cisse.Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, Dr Fenech Adami said the April 6 murder, alleged to have been racially-motivated, was the fruit of the Prime Minister’s past stance towards migration.

The two soldiers accused of committing the murder, he added, had probably cheered for Dr Muscat as he called for migrants' push-backs in 2013. Dr Fenech Adami said it was a failing of Maltese society that there were some who found it easy to shoot and kill in such a way, pointing out that the accused were both members of the Armed Forces of Malta and also dedicated supporters of the Labour Party who had joined the army after Labour was elected.The government had destroyed the army, he concluded, as even the army was accepting members into its ranks depending on their political colour.Dr Fenech Adami was reacting to a ministerial statement by Home Affairs Minister Michael Farrugia, who said that he had been disappointed and saddened by the fact that those accused of the crime were members of the disciplined forces. He did not go into specific details...