“She was a brave woman, a great journalist. She embodied the essence of the job: investigating the truth, the facts, regardless of anyone. She was not afraid of consistently doing her duty”. These are the words of the president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, at the plenary meeting in Strasbourg before the family of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist killed in Malta by a car bomb. Tajani also announced that a newsroom in Strasbourg’s European Parliament will be dedicated to her. “In the thirty years of her career, she never lost heart – he said –. She kept shedding light on obscurity, going ahead, answering only to her readers, the only ones she felt she had to be answerable to. In this spirit, she published over 20,000 articles, reporting abuse of power, corruption, misgovernment”. “As any real journalist – he went on –, she was a sentinel, a soldier in the forefront, in the defence of our values. It is because of a free, independent press that we can have democracy, the rule of law, freedom of expression. All the fundamental rights that the European project and our own civilisation are built upon”. “Daphne’s murder shall not go unpunished – he emphasised –. How reliable can we be as we keep defending journalists across the world if we cannot give them protection and justice at home?”. Tajani asked the Maltese authorities to make “every effort to shed light on this fact. Every line of investigation must be pursued. I think Europol should also be involved as part of an international investigation in which all police forces can help sentence the offenders. The example she gave us should not be forgotten”.