Watch: ‘They used us’ – Daphne killer speaks out, vows to name others

Self-confessed killer George Degiorgio has claimed he can take down others with him for journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder.

He was speaking in a Wondery podcast called Who Killed Daphne, hosted by Reuters’ Stephen Grey.“It is f*****g bullshit ah... they used us... they used us,” Degiorgio says of the assassination and those behind the plot.

He claims to have been paid a deposit in 2015 by a top Maltese political figure for a separate aborted contract to kill Caruana Galizia.“He told me what he wants to do, how much and shit like that, you know. I said ‘send the deposit, and we will start’,” Degiorgio says of the 2015 meeting with this political figure over the aborted plot. Degiorgio said in the interview that the asking price for the 2015 plot was €150,000.

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He said the same price was named for the 2017 plot that would ultimately lead to the car bombing of the journalist outside her Bidnija home.“That’s why I was the one to tell my brother [Alfred] €150,000. Because I was dealing before [over the 2015 plot],” Degiorgio says.

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