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5 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 13 MARCH 2019 NEWS tain weight" which were "ca- pable of arousing the sexual interest of the victim", pointed out defence lawyer Joe Brincat, asking how these fitted in with the facts of the case. He requested the court re- form its declaration of guilt by replacing the crime of corrup- tion of minors with the lesser charge of violent indecent as- sault. But Judge Consuelo Scerri Herrera went a step further, saying that she disagreed that the man should be found guilty of something which neither the police nor the Attorney Gen- eral had asked him to be con- victed of. The Criminal Code specifical- ly stated when guilt for a lesser offence could be found from a more serious one and this was not one of them, she said. Quoting from case law, the court said that for an offence to be comprised and involved in another offence, all of the ingredients of the first offence must also be found in the sec- ond. The Court of Criminal Ap- peal therefore revoked the sen- tence at first instance where it found Xerri guilty of corrup- tion of minors "bearing in mind that although this Court agrees with the appellant that the facts fit the crime of violent indecent assault, the appellant was not accused with this crime and this court therefore cannot find him guilty of violent indecent assault". It was up to the prosecution to accuse the appellant with this crime but it was not men- tioned, so much that the At- torney General did not indicate it in his note of renvoi, said the court. Despite being cleared of cor- rupting a minor, the man's conviction for offending public morals was upheld. The judge underlined that al- though the appellant was not being found guilty, "his behav- iour was deplorable and can never be accepted, behaviour which causes fear both in the young victims as well as parents and society in general". Noting that the man had also been convicted in 1999 of of- fending public morals, the court fined him €1,000 and imposed the maximum punishment of three months' imprisonment which the court suspended for the maximum of four years in view of the accused's advanced age. ANNOUNCEMENT Business Enhance ERDF Grant Schemes Open Rolling Calls – Cut-off dates Operational Programme I – Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 Fostering a competitive and sustainable economy to meet our challenges The Measures and Support Division within the Ministry for European Affairs and Equality, designated by the Managing Authority for Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 as the Intermediate Body responsible for administering aid schemes for enterprises under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2014 – 2020, would like to announce the cut-off dates till end 2019 in relation to Calls issued under the Business Enhance ERDF Grant Schemes initiative. The cut-off dates are published on the Business Enhance website https://businessenhance.gov.mt and may be accessed from https://businessenhance.gov.mt/en/News/Pages/OPEN-CALLS-.aspx Information Sessions are held periodically and dates and venues for latest Information Sessions may be accessed from https://businessenhance.gov.mt/en/Pages/Information-Sessions.aspx#. Representatives of the Measures and Support Division are present at Business 1 st every Wednesday afternoon. Enterprises wishing information on the Business Enhance ERDF Grant Schemes may set an appointment by contacting Business 1 st on freephone 144. Further information on the Calls including the respective Guidance Notes and the Guidelines for Implementation may be obtained from https://businessenhance.gov.mt. ANNOUNCEMENT Business Enhance ERDF Grant Schemes Open Rolling Calls – Cut-off dates Operational Programme I – Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 Fostering a competitive and sustainable economy to meet our challenges The Measures and Support Division within the Ministry for European Affairs and Equality, designated by the Managing Authority for Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 as the Intermediate Body responsible for administering aid schemes for enterprises under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2014 – 2020, would like to announce the cut-off dates till end 2019 in relation to Calls issued under the Business Enhance ERDF Grant Schemes initiative. The cut-off dates are published on the Business Enhance website https://businessenhance.gov.mt and may be accessed from https://businessenhance.gov.mt/en/News/Pages/OPEN-CALLS-.aspx Information Sessions are held periodically and dates and venues for latest Information Sessions may be accessed from https://businessenhance.gov.mt/en/Pages/Information-Sessions.aspx#. Representatives of the Measures and Support Division are present at Business 1 st every Wednesday afternoon. Enterprises wishing information on the Business Enhance ERDF Grant Schemes may set an appointment by contacting Business 1 st on freephone 144. Further information on the Calls including the respective Guidance Notes and the Guidelines for Implementation may be obtained from https://businessenhance.gov.mt. Operational Programme I – European Structural and Investment Funds 2014-2020 "Fostering a competitive and sustainable economy to meet our challenges" Advert part-financed by the European Regional and Development Fund Co-financing rate: Public Eligible (80% European Union; 20% National Funds) ANNOUNCEMENT Business Enhance ERDF Grant Schemes Open Rolling Calls – Cut-off dates Operational Programme I – Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 Fostering a competitive and sustainable economy to meet our challenges The Measures and Support Division within the Ministry for European Affairs and Equality, designated by the Managing Authority for Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 as the Intermediate Body responsible for administering aid schemes for enterprises under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2014 – 2020, would like to announce the cut-off dates till end 2019 in relation to Calls issued under the Business Enhance ERDF Grant Schemes initiative. The cut-off dates are published on the Business Enhance website https://businessenhance.gov.mt and may be accessed from https://businessenhance.gov.mt/en/News/Pages/OPEN-CALLS-.aspx Information Sessions are held periodically and dates and venues for latest Information Sessions may be accessed from https://businessenhance.gov.mt/en/Pages/Information-Sessions.aspx#. Representatives of the Measures and Support Division are present at Business 1 st every Wednesday afternoon. Enterprises wishing information on the Business Enhance ERDF Grant Schemes may set an appointment by contacting Business 1 st on freephone 144. Further information on the Calls including the respective Guidance Notes and the Guidelines for Implementation may be obtained from https://businessenhance.gov.mt. KURT SANSONE NICO and Spotty survived the blaze that de- stroyed a Marsa carnival warehouse on Tuesday after the two dogs escaped through the roof. The dogs and two hamsters were inside the large warehouse used by carnival company RRG to build floats. No people were inside the building when the fire started at around 9.30am. Firefighters battled the flames that were fanned by the strong winds and the ready sup- ply of fuel in the form of paper, carton, wood and fibre used by enthusiasts to build the floats. The dogs are believed to have jumped from the warehouse roof onto a neighbouring prop- erty from where firefighters hoisted them down. Redeemer Casha from RRG told MaltaToday that nobody had been in the warehouse at the time of the fire, and that he had no idea as to what could have caused the flames to ignite. "I couldn't believe it when I heard there was a fire... but then I came to the site and saw this," a visibly distraught Casha said. CPD director Emanuel Psaila said firefight- ers utilised a camera to locate, from the out- side, the two dogs. Two hamsters that were in a makeshift kitch- en inside the building were also brought out alive. Psaila said CPD personnel adopted a defen- sive technique working from the outside to put out the flames and cool the building down. Two dogs, two hamsters rescued from warehouse blaze Spotty and Nico were located within the building and were able to escape the blaze by jumping onto neighbouring roofs CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 In addition, EASA said it would be publishing a "Safety Directive, effective as of 19:00 UTC, suspending all flights performed by third-country operators into, within or out of the EU of the above men- tioned models." EASA said it had offered its assistance in supporting Ethi- opian authorities' investiga- tions and that it was continu- ously analysing the data as it becomes available. "The accident investigation is currently ongoing, and it is too early to draw any conclu- sions as to the cause of the ac- cident," EASA said. On Tuesday it was reported that the UK Civil Aviation Au- thority had decided "to stop any commercial passenger flights from any operator ar- riving, departing or overflying UK airspace". France, Germany, Australia and Singapore announced they would be taking similar precautions. The decision follows the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday which hap- pened minutes into a flight to Nairobi, killing all 157 people on board. A similar incident back in October saw 189 people killed when a Lion Air jet of the same model crashed in Indonesia. While EASA has recom- mended that flight opera- tions be suspended, the US's Federal Aviation Adminis- tration (FAA) has so far said that there did not appear to be any link between the two ac- cidents. In a safety bulletin sent to Civil Aviation Authorities round the globe by the FAA stated that "the National Transportation Safety Board as an accredited representa- tive, and the FAA as technical advisors", were both support- ing Ethiopian authorities in their investigations. "All data will be closely ex- amined during this investiga- tion, and the FAA will take appropriate action if data in- dicates the need to do so," the memo reads. "External reports are draw- ing similarities between this accident and the Lion Air Flight 610 accident on Octo- ber 29, 2018. However, this in- vestigation has just begun and to date we have not been pro- vided data to draw any conclu- sions or take any actions." There are currently 387 Boe- ing 737 MAX aircraft, oper- ated by 59 operators, currently in operation around the world. US aviation authority questions link between two air accidents