Protesters block Malta?s lawmakers from leaving Parliament in Valletta

About 4,000 demonstrators blocked Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his colleagues amid high public pressure over the 2017 murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

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Investigations into the car bomb murder of journalist Caruana Galizia intensified recently after Maltese police announced they would be questioning senior members of Muscat's government in relation to her killing.

Matthew Caruana Galizia, a son of car bomb victim Daphne Caruana Galizia, is angry that the prime minister is using his position to defend government aides linked to his mother's death

Fenech has pleaded not guilty and said that he has information linking Muscat's former chief of staff Schembri to the crime.