An investigation on the trail of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist killed on October 16, 2017. A journey through Malta, hunting for the pirates of the European economy that everyone pretends not to see.

"What more needs to happen for Europe to take notice of Malta and all its corruption?"

Daphne Caruana Galizia died in Bidnija, north Malta, killed by a bomb that blew up her Peugeot 108 while she was on board. She was fifty-three years old, had a husband and three children, and was one of the most famous journalists in Malta because of her investigations into international tax evasion, which linked the island to the Panama Papers. The name of the person who killed Daphne is not yet known. But her story sheds light on a hitherto ignored truth, an inconvenient truth that Europe prefers not to see. Malta is "the state in the Mediterranean that serves as a pirate base for tax evasion in the European Union," the journalist wrote in her Maltafiles... Carlo Bonini sets out on the trail of the Daphne investigation to pick up the threads of the courageous international inquiry that revealed the center of a disturbing system of tax avoidance, corruption and organized crime. And in reconstructing the tragic story of a great journalist, he shows that the corrupt heart of Europe lies on its periphery, yet affects the business of the entire Union. Daphne's story is the story of Malta and the rot that European politics prefers to ignore.