Issuing orders for someone to be crucified must, for him, be part of what he considers "social wellbeing." I am not an isolated case; others on whom he wrote articles to get them out of the way met the same fate. The University of Malta now seems to be trying to give plagiarism a new meaning just to save him. After nearly a year of supposedly investigating the case, they found a way to excuse him — his plagiarism was reduced to mere "lazy writing"). He even served as one of its Deans, ending his term with full honours and receiving an official appreciation up to July 2024.

As can be seen in the image above, his call to have me assassinated has been active since as far back as 16 November 2011 — "CRUCIFY HIM" is repeated no fewer than eight times along with false accusations labeling me as an animal killer or murderer. In reality, the animals were already dead when I found them while cycling. If one instead examines the source code of the specific webpage (available on this site as a text file), the word "crucify" appears a staggering 96 times, and the phrase "crucify him" no fewer than 14 times — likely to support Facebook and Twitter share buttons, among other elements (same file available on this site in the original html/php extension). This kind of behavior seems to be entirely acceptable to a university with standards as low as those of the University of Malta, which has since promoted him to Associate Professor, then Professor, and even appointed him as a Dean for a considerable period.

In a small country like Malta, where institutionalized corruption has existed for as long as anyone can remember, countless fake institutions and authorities focus only on going after the "small fish." Meanwhile, they are entirely absent when it comes to holding powerful individuals accountable — people who often form tightly knit networks, almost like a masonic lodge, shielding each other from consequences.

Take this website as an example: had I fabricated even the smallest lie, they would have immediately overwhelmed me with libel cases, using the court system as their playground. But because the abuses I exposed involve people in high positions, all the documents and evidence I’ve gathered to prove my point have been in vain. The authorities — the police, the courts, and others — simply look the other way.

This situation is worsened by the lack of investigative journalism in Malta. The media often parrots what they’re told or manipulates stories to fit specific agendas, driven by the greed for high-paying advertisements. Again, take my own case: for a long time, all media outlets falsely labeled me as the "Mosta cat killer." It was later proven to be a complete fabrication — the magistrate himself stated that I was finding the cats already dead. Yet, the media continued to repeat the same lies without a shred of remorse.

Part of the blame for this widespread corruption and impunity lies, as expected, with the University of Malta (UOM). It serves as the breeding ground for many who go on to occupy the country’s most influential and powerful positions.

Below is a video — a screen recording from my phone — showing my visit to the blog of one of the university’s senior staff, the aforementioned Andrew Azzopardi.

If not just a lecturer, but someone holding the position of senior lecturer, associate professor, and Dean of the Faculty of "Social Wellbeing" can be as vile as Andrew Azzopardi — coming out with what is effectively a death fatwa against me — just imagine the kind of even worse senior staff that might be found in other faculties at the University of Malta (UOM), those that don’t even pretend to have “wellbeing” in their name. I leave it up to you to figure out why, in Malta, influential people and those in high positions so often behave in such corrupt and biased ways.

For a long time, I’ve been too afraid to report Azzopardi, because I know from experience that the law does not apply to people like him. It’s all in vain. Even if, one day, he’s finally brought to justice, a likely biased court will find some excuse for him or hand down a lenient sentence. Meanwhile, I — who dared to report him — will be demonised, character assassinated yet again, with no one to back me. It’ll serve as yet another excuse for sadistic psychiatrists to cover up for him by slapping me with a label like “delusions of persecution” — a convenient pretext to further drug and disable me at their leisure.

In fact, after finally plucking up the courage in the hope of exposing yet more of the blatant impunity in this country, I reported Azzopardi on 2-Jan-2022 to the UOM Rector, the Minister of Education, and the Police, requesting immediate action. As can be seen from the date of the video, Azzopardi has not even been asked to remove the post — let alone been prosecuted.

Now compare this to the case of that priest, who almost landed himself in court for merely comparing a pro-choice candidate to Hitler — while I’m being falsely labelled as an animal killer, murderer, cat killer, and more. Or compare it to that elderly man who received a suspended sentence for saying that Roberta Metsola deserved to be burned alive — while in my case, Azzopardi issues a call for me to be killed, crucified, and faces zero consequences. Complete impunity.

Perhaps the Rector didn’t sack Azzopardi because doing so might trigger a chain reaction that would require firing even more senior staff — like psychiatrist David Cassar (Head of the Department of Psychiatry), who has been involved in much more serious crimes and blatant abuses against me, as outlined throughout this website.

But of course, in Malta, the law has never existed for people like them.

The Police, if they truly want to do their job, can, among possibly many other charges, accuse this Andrew Azzopardi of the following:

1. Misuse of electronic equipment, telecommunications, and the internet.
2. Issuing a death fatwa against me — a fatwa he wrote in English and published on the internet to ensure a global audience 24/7, thereby greatly increasing the chances of achieving his goal of having me killed.
3. Instigating that I specifically be killed by crucifixion (or perhaps intending something similarly atrocious), that is, through dreadful and prolonged torture, despite torture having long been abolished by international law.
4. Inciting public disorder and unrest by urging someone to commit a crime — to take the law into their own hands and come kill me rather than allowing justice to take its course.
   
5. Because of this death fatwa to kill me in such a macabre way, I ended up traumatized and living in constant terror and fear — to the extent that, as can be expected, it had severe and possibly permanent repercussions on my health. It was one of the causes, among many others no less severe, that even the slightest noise while walking would, out of fear, cause me to suffer continuous headaches due to the constant state of fear and terror, along with panic attacks during or just before sleep — all symptoms consistent with what I discovered to be called post-traumatic stress disorder, further exacerbated by the psychiatric poison Olanzapine that I had been forced to take.
6. This death fatwa against me also had repercussions on those dearest to me — my family, in particular my elderly octogenarian mother, who was always deeply worried that I would be macabrely killed. Even something as simple as a telephone call or the ringing of the doorbell would cause her great shock, thinking it was someone calling to announce my death. She too ended up living in fear, worried that if they failed to kill me, they would instead divert their attention to her, killing her in my place. It reached the point where my sisters had to take turns sleeping with her at night. They too were similarly fearful, thinking that being found with her would lead to all of them being massacred. This, in turn, caused me further panic attacks, imagining my mother and/or sisters being brutally killed. I think it is only by some miracle that, after all these years, I have still not gone completely insane from all these terrifying thoughts.
7. Just as the Maltese state was recently found guilty of fostering a culture of impunity and hate that led to the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, this Azzopardi sowed a similar seed — with the intention of seeing me assassinated in a cruel and macabre way. And once again, the state, the institutions, the Police, etc., rendered themselves complicit by remaining indifferent and preserving the status quo, waiting for the next tragedy.
8. He further spread and incited unfounded hatred against me by falsely labeling me — character-assassinating me as an animal murderer, an animal killer — so as to give even more impetus and motivation to those who would harm me, and to sow the hatred necessary to reach his aim of having me killed, crucified (he wrote "crucify him" eight times).
9. Inciting violence against me and calling for my death by publishing statements on his website urging that I be crucified. This was done on two separate webpages, in three different instances, with the phrase "Crucify him" repeated no fewer than eight times — each time emphasized with an exclamation mark, indicating forceful and violent intent.
10. Defaming me by falsely labeling me as an animal killer/murderer when I have done nothing of the sort, thereby damaging my reputation.
11. Discriminating against me by calling for me to be crucified, despite the fact that I have killed no one; yet, for hunters who kill birds for sport, he did not call for the same punishment.
12. Insulting and threatening me in this manner for over a decade — since November 16, 2011 — even though Magistrate Peralta, in his 2014 court ruling, stated that I used to find the animals already dead. He has continued this behavior despite my reporting him to the rector of the University and others, and it remains ongoing (as of the time of writing and video). Moreover, there is no guarantee that if he retracts his “death fatwa,” others do not still harbor the same sadistic desire to crucify me after so many years of written hatred.
13. Inciting racially motivated hatred against me because I am Maltese. Rest assured, had I originated from a different country or continent, he would have used a completely different tone. (Could you imagine him calling to kill immigrants? Of course not, and rightly so. Yet, for him to call for my death is somehow considered acceptable.)
14. Committing all of this while holding a position of great responsibility — both as a supposed journalist who exploited his influential platform with thousands of followers, and as Dean of the Faculty of Social Wellbeing at the University. Instead of serving as a role model for the wellbeing of society, especially for his students and followers, he set the worst example possible by poisoning their minds to follow in his footsteps, promoting hatred and calls for crucifixion and violence. He expressed shock over me having crucified animals that were already dead, as confirmed in the court ruling, yet he sees no issue with inciting calls for me to be crucified alive and innocent. He focuses on the speck in my eye, while ignoring the massive log in his own.
15. After I was maliciously and fraudulently condemned as mentally ill — just with the stroke of a pen and without any scientific evidence to support it — all these abuses become even more severe, as they were directed at someone who is vulnerable and disadvantaged.
16. Because of the lies he and others like him spread about me, I continue to suffer in silence. I still receive insults, as many people believe the false narrative that I abused or killed animals, and some even wish harm upon me — such as being crucified, as he once incited. I sometimes spend time in the hospital’s main garden, near others, out of fear that someone might suddenly appear and publicly insult me. If I go anywhere alone, I risk becoming an easy target for someone to carry out the death fatwa he effectively issued against me. It has truly become a life of torment, lived in constant fear, with no peace of mind.
17. Instead of condemning the unfounded hatred directed at me by the public, the media, and on social media, he actively participated in the frenzy. Worse still, he went a step further by inciting that I be killed — crucified — not through a fleeting comment lost among many, but in a far more prominent and lasting way: by creating dedicated webpages with the words "crucify him, crucify him," including using them as the actual title of one such page.
18. Because of the hatred incited by him and others, I continue to suffer injustice to this day. I cannot find anyone willing to speak up in my defense regarding the blatant abuses of psychiatry. People distance themselves, afraid that associating with me could make them targets of the same hatred — or even subject them and their families to a similar death fatwa. This has only deepened my isolation, leaving me feeling helpless and hopeless, with no light at the end of the tunnel. It has also worsened my condition, causing terrifying and deeply disturbing panic attacks. The repeated experience of reaching out for help and finding only closed doors is so crushing that words cannot fully capture it. To make matters worse, I must hide my suffering from sadistic psychiatrists who, rather than offering support, seem eager to seize every opportunity to drug me further—with pills and injections that bring devastating side effects: parkinsonism from risperdone, mental impairment from olanzapine, and ironically, even depression and anxiety themselves.

If this Andrew Azzopardi publicly called for my assassination as far back as 2011, the media, for their part, carried out their own version of an assassination — an outright character assassination. They demonized me and falsely portrayed me as an animal and cat killer, without bothering to consider that I might, in fact, be nothing of the sort. They never checked the facts beforehand. This is the standard of journalism in Malta — journalists without any sense of ethics or responsibility.

The video below, recorded on January 6, 2022, shows how the internet is still flooded with articles (among many others that no longer appear after so many years) falsely branding me as a cat killer. As I have said countless times, I have never killed or harmed any animal. What’s worse is that the media not only refused to retract the lies they deliberately spread about me (despite knowing from the start that I only used animals that were already dead on the road), but they also continued to push this false narrative even after the court ruled that the animals I used were already dead when I found them.

Note how one of the articles was written by Veterinarian — someone whose job includes performing euthanasia on animals. That is, the intentional killing of animals by injecting them with poison to hasten their death — essentially, disposing of them when they are most in need of care and affection. Ask yourself: would a veterinarian choose to do the same to their dying mother? Of course not.

It's also worth noting that Belle De Jong continued to refer to me as a "cat killer" in her blog, even after we had corresponded via email. She had access to this website filled with documents and evidence — available around the clock — to verify the facts. Yet she chose to join the chorus of hate and misinformation against me, fully aware that she could do so with impunity, just like the media has for years. The law doesn’t seem to apply to them, and the police — who played their own role in assassinating my character — will never prosecute, because doing so would implicate themselves.

It's been devastating for the victims — especially me and my family — who have endured years of silence in the face of blatant lies, injustices, and abuse. Adding insult to injury, De Jong calls herself a "mental health advocate." God help anyone struggling with mental illness if these are the people who claim to support them — rest assured they're likely to make things worse.

In the video below, recorded on 14 January 2022, I was conducting more targeted and specific searches.

One News and Net News serve as the propaganda arms of the two major political parties — masters at manufacturing hate toward each other, and certainly no less toward me. As evidence of this toxic environment, Andrew Azzopardi shamelessly shared on his blog an article from one of these venomous outlets, bearing the grotesque and inflammatory headline: “When he maltreated and killed animals in Mosta, Nicholas Grech was suffering from…” This was published by Net News (formerly known as Maltarightnow — and if they lose another election, they’ll probably rename themselves again), just two days before I was sentenced.

It’s hard to believe Azzopardi hadn’t already come across an earlier article from MaltaToday, which from the start clearly stated that I had simply used animals that were already found dead. But accuracy and truth clearly take a back seat when there’s a convenient narrative to push.

Three days later — one day after my sentencing — Daphne Caruana Galizia referenced the Times of Malta on her blog. True to form, they headlined the piece with the usual sensational label of “cat killer,” but tucked away in the article was the factual detail that I had used animals that were already dead. And of course, Daphne had no idea about the brazenly corrupt and vindictive collusion between Magistrate Peralta and psychiatrist David Cassar — the two who, over a decade earlier, had conspired to fraudulently and maliciously label me as schizophrenic to save the former’s career. Had she uncovered the full scope of their treachery, I have no doubt she would have spent the rest of her life dismantling it in her writing.

Newsbook, the media outlet of the Church that portrays itself as "Fair, Accurate, and Trustworthy," referred to me as a "killer of cats" and published other BLATANT LIES about me in their article. Note how Malta’s Church-run media spreads BLATANT FALSEHOODS to sustain itself — much like the Church has done for nearly 2,000 years — even when it means betraying the teachings of Christ Himself.

Don’t make the same mistake I once did: turning away from Christ because of the venom and hypocrisy of the Church. Compare this to groups like Civil Society Network, Occupy Justice, Manuel Delia, and The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, who claim to follow in Daphne’s footsteps in fighting corruption and impunity — yet remain completely silent when injustices and abuses affect the ordinary person.

The Archbishop probably won’t feel the need to apologize in this case, unlike others in the past. It’s worth noting that the person who teaches Ethics in the Media at the University of Malta is none other than Rev. Joe Borg (1, 2) — a close friend of Andrew Azzopardi and Chairman of the Editorial Board of Beacon Media, which runs Newsbook. Do you notice the recurring pattern? Friends of friends, influential positions, University of Malta, and so on.

Also, note how my website frequently appears in search results. The media cannot claim ignorance of my side of the story, especially given the many documents I uploaded to support my case.

To hear myself once again being maliciously defamed in August 2021 — after having been unjustly locked away, drugged, and abused for so long, made a scapegoat while the real culprits continue to walk free — was more than I could bear. It was another cruel blow to my elderly mother, who passed away about a month later, in September. And for me, it added yet more psychological torment, as if I hadn’t already suffered enough.

On 10 January 2022, I wrote for the second time to the Rector of the University of Malta, and this time also to the Prime Minister and directly to the Commissioner of Police, regarding the numerous abuses mentioned above by Andrew Azzopardi. I was promptly dismissed with a reply from the Rector on the same day, stating: “I wish to inform you that the specific evidence you provided is not that on which measures can be taken as stipulated by the applicable regulations of the University.” I leave it to you to better understand why I have said that the University of Malta is an institution of low standards. It reflects — and is partly responsible for — the corruption that has long plagued Malta: a culture of impunity where those in high positions, the so-called “big fish,” are consistently excused, while injustice is rampant and laws are manipulated to frame the “small fish,” as has been happening to me for a long time, as documented throughout this website.

A few days later, on 14 January 2022, they took their revenge on me by increasing my dosage of Olanzapine (Zypadhera) from 15mg to 20mg — the maximum possible dose — to further harm me with side effects. This came just a few months after I had passed through the trauma of losing my beloved mother, making their actions even more vile. They used the conveniently invented excuse that I was suicidal (God forbid anyone admits to suicidal thoughts — it only gets worse from there) and placed me under “Level 1” restrictions to humiliate me in front of other patients.

Back in April 2018, they had already increased my dose from 5mg to 10mg after I reported staff taking home food meant for patients, labeling me as having “inappropriate beliefs.” In 2020, after I reported to the CEO that night-shift staff were sleeping almost the entire shift, they increased my dose to 15mg, transferred me to wards with fewer liberties, and attempted to frame me — falsely accusing me of killing cats and claiming I wanted to stab the psychiatrist. Had that been true, they surely would have involved the police, and it would have been sensationalized in the media. But lying about voiceless patients seems to be routine.

They also issued another restriction order limiting my communication, and staff even went so far as to smash my laptop and ban me from using it again.

For more on these incidents — and others involving victims of psychiatry — see the link.

Imagine if, instead of a single, misspelled suggestion that you deserve to be burnt alive, someone issues a fatwa — a call to have you killed, saying “crucify him” no less than eight times, and all publicly. Instead of a fleeting comment that disappears among many others, this call remains online for over a decade, still active on a blog available 24/7. Instead of being written in Maltese, it's in English — to reach a global audience. And instead of being written by some unknown villager, it comes from a highly influential figure: a senior lecturer, a professor, a Dean at our most prestigious institution — the University of Malta — making it all the more vile.

This person incites pure, baseless hatred, depicting you as the most grotesque murderer imaginable — and in the end, it turns out to be a complete lie.

I reported this to the highest authorities — and once again, I was met with deafening silence. Impunity reigns.

So when you hear these same people shouting about impunity, corruption, and the rule of law, rest assured: those noble-sounding words only seem to matter when opposing politicians are settling scores with each other. But when such injustices affect the average citizen — the so-called “small fish” — they fall completely silent. Rather than risk incriminating the big names or their well-connected friends, they choose to protect them. They’d rather cover it all up.

They don’t even bother to speak out — just like Roberta Metsola, the newly elected President of the European Parliament at the time, whose emails only further confirm her blatant double standards.

Through their silence and inaction, they make themselves complicit — because they know they’ll be protected, just as others before them have been. They cover for one another, just as they do for the powerful and their inner circles

... some sarcasm, even if it's the sad reality.

The typical “Professor of Bigilla,” the “Father,” and the “MEP of the Year” Metsola.

For the “Professor of Bigilla,” it’s wrong to find a dead animal and crucify it as a symbolic message — but perfectly fine to order the crucifixion of an innocent, living man.

For the “Father,” it’s a sin to lie — you’ll burn in Hell! — but when Church-owned media invent blatant lies to stay in business, that’s all perfectly acceptable.

For Metsola, it’s outrageous to suggest she deserves to be burned alive — but apparently fine if someone issues a fatwa calling for another person to be killed and crucified.

Do you understand what it means to be fake?

The Application of Hate Speech Law in Malta: A Stark Contrast

The enforcement of hate speech legislation in Malta reveals a striking contrast when applied to ordinary citizens, particularly in light of the far graver injustices I have endured — perpetrated by high-ranking individuals, including, notably, the former Dean of the Faculty of Social Wellbeing, Professor Andrew Azzopardi.

Consider the following cases involving hate speech by members of the public:

• A man who stated that then-MEP Roberta Metsola "deserved to be burnt alive" received a suspended prison sentence.
• An individual who merely wrote the word “burn” in a comment was fined €2,000.
• Twenty people were facing prosecution for hate speech.
• In 2021 alone, thirty-three individuals were charged with hate speech.
• One man was fined €350 for expressing a wish that migrants would drown.
• Another was fined €300 and convicted of inciting hatred and violence after commenting that Repubblika president Robert Aquilina should be “hanged from the nearest post.”
• A man who threatened to throw a barrel of acid at Robert Aquilina was fined €5,000 and handed a suspended nine-month prison sentence.

These cases highlight the swift and decisive action taken when high-profile figures are targeted, often in response to relatively minor online comments. Meanwhile, when serious abuse is directed at individuals like myself by powerful public officials, such as Professor Azzopardi, the silence is deafening and justice remains elusive.