One interesting statement from the article: Muscat announced later in parliament that FBI officers were on their way to Malta to assist with the investigation,

One interesting statement from the article: Muscat announced later in parliament that FBI officers were on their way to Malta to assist with the investigation, following his request for outside help from the US government. It's interesting that the prime minister of Malta has asked the US FBI for help. The EU is a "federation" of sorts and could (perhaps already does?) have their own EU-wide equivalent of our USA-wide FBI? The FBI is quite often useful in US cases like this. It can act as an independent agency that can and does investigate local corruption. But it seems inappropriate to have them investigate a murder in Malta? Isn't there a lot of "local knowledge" that the FBI wouldn't have? There are other nuances involved in the USA. Local murders aren't, without other circumstances, "federal" crimes. So the FBI doesn't generally get involved. But there are other laws available here for situations like this. E.g. it is a US federal offense to violate someone's "civil rights".