Schembri says not sleeping over Caruana

(ANSA) - Rome, October 20 - Malta captain André Schembri told ANSA Friday he had not slept for three nights after the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and had not celebrated his goal in Apollon Limassol's 3-1 Champions League defeat to Atalanta because "when I scored it came naturally to think of the freedom of a journalist and the life of the mother of three children".
    "Malta is Europe, it isn't the third world," said Schembri in explaining his gesture after scoring the first Maltese goal in a European club competition.
    "We must be united on such a death, to say that we're better than all this." The Panama Papers exposé journalist died in a car bombing Monday.
    Caruana Galizia, whose hugely popular blog attacked high-level corruption, shady business dealings and organised crime on the island, exposed connections between Prime Minister Jospeh Muscat's wife and members of his government to offshore shell companies in Panama. The Muscats have denied the allegations. Caruana Galizia also criticised senior figures in the Maltese opposition. Pope Francis wrote a letter of condolences to Malta Archbishop Charles Scicluna Friday.