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VALLETTA, Malta – Europol, the European Union’s police agency, has sent a team of organized crime experts to help Maltese police investigate the assassination of a prominent investigative journalist, a spokesman said Friday.
Daphne Caruana Galizia died Oct. 16 when a bomb shattered her car as she was driving close to her rural home in the Maltese town of Mosta. The slaying sparked outrage in Malta, where she was well known as a dogged crusader against corruption.
Europol spokesman Jan Op Gen Oorth told The Associated Press that a team of three analysts has access to Europol’s databases on organized crime, drugs, money laundering and other major criminal threats.
“They are working directly with the investigation team established by Malta police and their task is to support the investigation wherever it may lead,” Op Gen Oorth said.
The FBI and Dutch forensic experts also have helped local police as they investigate a slaying that was widely denounced as an attack on free speech. So far authorities have not identified any suspects or a motive.
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