Watch: Beppe Fenech Adami recalls the night thugs beat up his mother

Nationalist Party MP Beppe Fenech Adami has recounted the horrible scene, 40 years ago when as a boy of 12, he witnessed Labour supporters ransacking his parents' house and beating up his mother. The attack on October 15, 1979, was organised to the extent that the gang used a bus to travel between Valletta, where they burnt down Times of Malta's offices, and Birkirkara. They also attacked PN clubs in Valletta, Floriana and Birkirkara, he said. Speaking in Parliament, Dr Fenech Adami recalled how he and his younger siblings were at home with their 82-year-old grandmother at the time. Their mother had just left to go to Mass. Suddenly they heard a huge noise and a big number of men stormed in and started destroying everything they could lay their hands on. He said he could still remember how men dangled under a chandelier until they pulled it down and how others toppled a grandfather clock and jumped into it. Others rocked the banister until they smashed it. Drawers was emptied and thrown out into the street. So too were items from his father's study. Dr Fenech Adami said he and his siblings ran upstairs and hid under beds. By this time his mother had returned. She tried to enter...