Pensioner who wrote MEP Metsola 'should be burned alive' granted bail

A 66-year-old pensioner who posted an inflammatory comment to Facebook suggesting MEP Roberta Metsola should be "burned alive" was today granted bail.  Naxxar resident Emmanuel Navarro was charged last week with misuse of electronic equipment, inciting hatred, insulting and threatening Dr Metsola and breaching an earlier conditional discharge. He was initially denied bail but was allowed to return home today after retracting the comment and apologising, with his lawyer Franco Debono noting that this was "without any prejudice to his guilt or otherwise."  Towards the end of the sitting, Mr Navarro's daughter fainted and was escorted out of the courtroom. READ: 'You should be burned alive,' man wrote about Metsola Dr Metsola, who had filed a police report against Mr Navarro, told court today that the Facebook post had put her family in danger.  “I am a mother of four and I feel that [the Facebook post] put them in danger,” she said, since it could have spurred someone to take up the threat.  PN MEPs, including Dr Metsola, had previously come under fire for their role in a rule of law debate held at the European Parliament following the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana...