Reporters Without Borders (RSF) emphasized on Friday that journalists in Malta remain at risk following the conviction of two individuals for supplying a bomb that killed an investigative journalist in 2017.

Head of the RSF European Union and Balkans Desk Pavol Szalai called the convictions “undeniable progress in the quest for justice” but noted that the trial “highlighted the Maltese state’s failure to dismantle—at every stage—the complex scheme devised to kill a journalist, and the difficulty of untangling it in a drawn-out judicial process.”

RSF also criticized the Maltese authorities for failing to implement most of the press freedom reforms recommended in the 437-page Public Inquiry Report issued after the journalist’s death.

A jury in Malta’s Criminal Court on Thursday convi

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