(3 Nov 2017) A funeral for slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was held in Malta on Friday, nearly three weeks after she was killed in a powerful car bomb.
Malta's Roman Catholic archbishop held Galizia's funeral Mass in the church nearest to where the 53-year-old Malta native lived.
The bomb exploded as she drove away from home on October 16.
More than 1,500 mourners packed the venue and several hundred more spilled out into the square outside.
Galizia's husband and three sons were among those who attended the mass.
The family has been very critical of the government for its failure to root out the kind of corruption that Caruana Galizia targeted in her blog "Running Commentary."
While investigators have yet to make arrests or announce breakthroughs in the case, Archbishop Charles Scicluna told Caruana Galizia's killers to "repent before it is too late."
The Malta government declared Friday a day of national mourning as "a sign that no attack on freedom of expression is accepted in Malta’s democracy."
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