Daphne Caruana Galizia was on her way to the bank when her car blew up. A bomb had been planted under the driver’s seat while it was parked outside her home in Bidnija, Malta. The investigative journalist was trying to gain access to her accounts which had been frozen in connection to a libel case against her by Malta’s Economy Minister Chris Cardona.
But this wasn’t the only legal action Caruana Galizia was confronting. At the time she was killed, in October 2017, she was subject to over 40 separate Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, also known as ‘SLAPPs’.
