Nationalist Party leader Alex Borg has stood by his claim that the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia was “hatched inside Castille,” telling Lovin Malta that he was far from the only person to point a finger at the seat of government during the Yorgen Fenech trial.Asked to explain the statement, made days earlier at a demonstration held after the trial’s conclusion, Borg said the site had featured repeatedly in proceedings, alongside other locations such as the potato shed where the Degiorgio brothers used to meet, the Fenech family’s ranch in Żebbuġ, Portomaso, and Bidnija, where the murder itself was carried out. But he stressed that Castille stood apart because it, too, had been the subject of judicial access during the trial, the presiding judge, together with everyone involved in the case, had visited the building as part of the proceedings.That fact alone, he argued, “raises certain questions” about why such access had been necessary in the first place. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lovin Malta (@lovinmalta)Pressed on whether the trial had actually established that the assassination was planned inside Castille, since no evidence to that specific effect was presented in court, Borg did not back down from the phrase but reframed it.He said he had spoken “based on facts that came out of the trial” and had not spoken “into thin air.”Asked directly what he had been alluding to, he returned to the question of the court site visits, saying that trial testimony had referred to an individual connected to Castille’s own office.He also referred to Melvin Theuma, the middleman who received a presidential pardon, recalling accounts that Schembri had gone down to meet him on Castille’s steps – “while the judge, when granted access to the building, had reportedly been taken in through the back.”Taken together, Borg said, these details “lead to questions” about why so much of what surfaced during the trial kept tracing back to Castille, and why access to the building had been granted at all. He said the public “needs clear answers” on the matter.What do you make of this?•