Far-rightist Norman Lowell, convicted to two years’ imprisonment and suspended for four on incitement to racial hatred, is claiming the former Attorney General Silvio Camilleri who prosecuted the same charges will be presiding over the constitutional case Lowell filed to quash the sentence.
Camilleri was appointed Chief Justice this week, replacing Vincent De Gaetano, who is now appointed to the European Court of Human Rights.
Lowell’s case, initially scheduled for next Monday 6 September will now be postponed to 29 October. Lowell is now accusing De Gaetano of thinking “it fit to avoid taking a decision.”
The far-rightist claims his case is a “test piece case” that will be a “decision of prime importance for the freedom of our people”, after he was found guilty of incitement to racial hatred in several pieces he wrote.
Lowell’s was not the first case of incitement to racial hatred in Malta.
Writing in his typical verse on the internet forum he runs, Lowell denounced the “shameful passing of the buck” to Camilleri, who as prosecutor started proceedings against him. “The very man who ignored two Judicial Protests… regarding the blatant breaking of the Electoral Law where five scoundrels stole an Election and made mockery of our Democracy.”
Note to readers: Feel free to drop a line to this establishment hack Vella and ask him if he is familiar with “far leftists” who scribble “typical verse”. –Ed