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WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT WEDNESDAY EDITION €1.00 Newspaper post EDITORIAL • PAGE 9 WEDNESDAY • 13 JUNE 2018 • ISSUE 591 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY ANALYSIS Salvini vs Muscat NEWS Google publishes AI rules PGS 6 & 7 PG 11 KURT SANSONE DEPUTY Police Commissioner Sil- vio Valletta is suspending himself from the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder investigation after a con- stitutional court ordered his re- moval from the case. Sources told MaltaToday that al- though the Attorney General will be appealing the judgment, Val- letta chose to pull out of the in- vestigation out of his own volition without waiting for the appeal to be concluded. Valletta, the husband of Gozo Minister Justyne Caruana, was not available for comment yesterday. In his ruling delivered yesterday, Judge Silvio Meli ordered that Val- letta desist from taking part in the investigation and also ordered that the deputy police commissioner's involvement in the investigation be re-examined by his replacement. The ruling is unprecedented and legal sources believe it may also derail the ongoing proceedings against three men accused of the journalist's murder. The court case was filed last year by the Caruana Galizia family that accused Valletta of a conf lict of interest because of his marriage to a cabinet minister and role as a board member of the Financial In- telligence Analysis Unit (FIAU). The family said that given the extensive reporting by Daphne Caruana Galizia on alleged money laundering by government mem- bers, Valletta's marriage to a cabi- net minister gave rise to a conf lict of interest. Silvio Valletta pulls out of Caruana Galizia murder case after court ruling MATTHEW VELLA AN American naval vessel went to the aid of a rubber boat that was sinking off the coast of Lib- ya, rescuing 41 people and col- lecting 12 bodies, a humanitar- ian group said yesterday after its ship was contacted by radio to help out. The US nav y vessel Trenton called the German charity Sea Watch, which operates the only charity rescue ship cur- rently on patrol off the Libyan coast, to alert them to the ship- wreck and ask for assistance, a spokesman for Sea Watch said. 12 dead after rescue off Libyan coast by migrant charity boat PAGE 2 PAGE 3 Deputy Police Commissioner Silvio Valletta (right) flanking Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar at the Crime Conference following Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder