Murder Island

The event that created a worldwide movement.

Daphne Caruana Galizia died on 16 October 2017 in Bidnija, in northern Malta, when a bomb exploded in her Peugeot 108. She was fifty-three, with a husband and three kids. She was a renowned journalist who had won the Pulitzer prize for her reporting on money laundering and international tax evasion that linked Malta to the Panama Papers. Her report revealed that Minister Konrad Mizzi and Labour Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat’s chief of staff, Keith Schembri, were involved in the scandal, and shed light on a truth that, until today, Europe has chosen to ignore: tiny Malta serves as sort of pirate’s cave for rampant tax evasion in the European Union.

The Daphne Project is a transnational investigative journalism project, a collaboration between major news organizations around the world, that is dedicated to continuing the work of Daphne Caruana Galizia. In reconstructing the tragic story of a great journalist, Bonini shows that the dark heart of Europe may lie in its periphery, but its corruption spreads throughout the Union and beyond.