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YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT SUNDAY 5 JULY 2026 • ISSUE 1392 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday €2.20 Stateless children Swieqi has a problem Free inside The Organic Food Guide is free with this issue Christine Cassar, author of a paper on stateless children, on why they need a pathway to Maltese citizenship Residents feel ignored as uncontrollable young tourists turn their town into hell INTERVIEW MT2 PAGES 4-5 YORGEN FENECH ON TRIAL YORGEN FENECH ON TRIAL SEE PAGES 7 TO 10 RICH, connected and accused of contracting the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, business magnate Yorgen Fenech's trial by jury is fi- nally underway. Almost nine years after Caruana Galizia's assassi- nation and six years after Fenech's arrest, the final chapter in this gruesome story is unfolding at the law courts in Valletta. Fenech is accused of complicity in the jour- nalist's murder—the man who hatched the idea, fi- nanced it to the tune of €150,000, and urged the hitmen to act fast. Fenech is pleading not guilty to the charges. In his opening statement to jurors, Attorney Gen- eral lawyer Anthony Vella did not mince his words: "Without Yorgen Fenech's role, Daphne would not have been killed." Now 44, Fenech is the son of the late George Fenech and heir of the Tu- mas Group, one of Malta's largest business conglom- erates. But who is Yorgen Fenech and how did he rise to the top of the com- pany before being arrested in November 2019 as he tried to leave Malta on his yacht? MaltaToday takes a deep dive into the man accused of putting out a contract on the life of "a wife, a mother, a sister", as the prosecution described Daphne Caruana Galizia.