(ANSA) - Vatican City, October 20 - Pope Francis on Friday
sent a message of condolences to Malta Archbishop Charles
Scicluna for Monday's murder of investigative journalist Daphne
Caruana Galizia. Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro
Parloni said "Pained at the tragic death of Daphne Caruana
Galizia, His Holiness Pope Francis is praying for her eternal
repose and asks you to send on his condolences to her family".
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
Joseph 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.
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Praying for her eternal repose