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maltatoday WEDNESDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2018 News 3 KURT SANSONE POLICE have arrested the grandmother who assaulted her grandson's school head yesterday morning. The woman who dragged the headmis- tress at the Birgu primary school by her hair, is currently under arrest and is ex- pected to be charged in court today. The incident happened at around 10.30am when the student's grand- mother went to the school and asked to speak to the headmistress. Sources said the woman than assaulted the head, who was taken to hospital by ambulance. In the wake of the incident, the Malta Union of Teachers renewed its call for increased security measures at schools. The union said the head was carrying out her duties when she was assaulted by a relative of a student. "The union will not accept this type of aggression and is expecting immediate investigations by the police and educa- tion authorities respectively," the union said, adding that it wanted all necessary action to be taken. More condemnation The Union of Professional Educators Voice of the Workers also condemned the aggression, adding this was the sec- ond case in as many months that an educator was attacked at the workplace. The UPE said it was concerned that the public authorities failed to take the necessary action over the years to protect educators within State schools. "Measures need to be taken with im- mediate effect to strengthensecurity within every school in order to prevent such incidents from happening," the UPE said. Grandmother arrested after assault on school head The MUT has asked for increased security measures at schools CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 "The Opposition is complain- ing that something happened before the 2017 election, when the Opposition itself did it be- fore the 2013 election," Labour MP Robert Abela said, adding that he was "disappointed" this had not been flagged by Beppe Fenech Adami. The former PN deputy leader said that the terms of reference for the PAC's investigation had been extended to 2010 on the Government's request. Fenech Adami alleges Was- teserv had a hand in leaking the email cache. Fenech Adami also remarked that the Government found co- operation on the part of Was- teserv to obtain the emails in question, while complaining that despite requesting informa- tion from the agency, the com- mittee had not yet been provid- ed with it. Fenech Adami said the com- mittee had no problem discuss- ing Wasteserv recruitment go- ing back to 2010 and accused the Government MPs of trying to sabotage the probe. "This will not stop the truth emerging about what happened before the last election, with people close to the Labour Party being employed without there being need for them," Fenech Adami said. He insisted that the commit- tee would examine what it had been requested to, and the Gov- ernment's side would have every opportunity to ask whatever it wanted. "If you want to speak about conflicts of interest, I can list all the conflicts of interest Robert Abela has," Fenech Adami re- butted to accusations by Oppo- sition MPs that he had a conflict. Abela stressed that the Gov- ernment had no intention of stopping the hearing, as Fenech Adami had suggested, but rather would be asking the Opposition MPs to testify and explain each email. Labour MP Alex Muscat asked Fenech Adami whether he was comfortable chairing the PAC when it would be investigating him, to which Fenech Adami re- plied that the committee would not be investigating him, but rather the engagement of indi- viduals with WasteServ. Adrian Delia's blessing Fenech Adami insisted he would not be taking any lessons from MPs of a government led by Joseph Muscat, who he said had ended up in a state where he was waiting to leave office. "The irony is that he would end up leaving before Tourism Min- ister Konrad Mizzi and OPM chief-of-staff Keith Schembri," Fenech Adami said, referring to the two people named in the Panama Papers. The MPs haggled in the pres- ence of Wasteserv CEO Tonio Montebello, who was sum- moned to testify. When it was Montebello's turn to start answering, the CEO asked Fenech Adami to clarify whether he was insinuating that he was the one who provided the emails to MaltaToday. Abela accused Fenech Adami of attempting to intimidate the witness, an accusation Fenech Adami refuted. "I made no allegation about Mr Montebello. It is justified, a question might come up about who is responsible for documen- tation at Wasteserv," Fenech Ad- ami said. Reacting to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's call for him to resign the chairmanship of PAC, Fenech Adami said it was surre- al for such a request to be made when Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri had kept their post. He said it was unbelievable that he was being asked to step down over emails he sent recommend- ing a qualified person for a post, which she ended up never being approached for. PN MP Jason Azzopardi said that there were also emails from Labour Party MPs and candi- dates to then minister George Pullicino that had not been passed on to MaltaToday, in which recommendations were also made regarding recruit- ment at Wasteserv. "Those emails were planned to be leaked, they were ready with punch holes and were planned to be leaked before this hearing," Azzopardi said. He added there was nothing wrong with MPs recommend- ing individuals for employment. The Government MPs on the PAC are Robert Abela, Rosianne Cutajar, Clayton Bartolo and Alex Muscat, while the Oppo- sition MPs are Beppe Fenech Adami, Claudio Grech, Kristy Debono and Jason Azzopardi. Opposition MPs refuse to step aside from parliamentary committee