Michelle Muscat and a former security officer assigned to her husband, former prime minister Joseph Muscat, have denied claims that the officer’s firearm discharged while she was nearby. Speaking to the Times of Malta, Michelle Muscat insisted that no such incident occurred in her presence. She acknowledged that a firearm had once been dropped by “someone” near her, but stressed that no shots were fired. The former security officer, Kenneth Camilleri, also rejected Schembri’s version of events. Schembri acknowledged that he had never filed a report.