Norman Lowell, leader of the right-wing Imperium Europa party this morning filed a 64-page appeal from his March 27 conviction of inciting racial hatred and insulting the President of Malta.

Speaking outside the courts, Mr Lowell said that he would save Malta from the disastrous situation it has found itself in because of property developers, and return it to the paradise in the Mediterranean it once was in the 1800s.

He added that he "would make all the Europids, all one billion of them come to Malta on a pilgrimage to see the temples”.

"We have had 20 years of squalid socialism, under the saviour of Malta, when we had a telephone directory made up of 60 pages all under the same surname, no one would know if it was the priest or the village whore, that was the “stamp” of socialism. Today we have the stamp of a prime minster who used to be the president of the catholic action group, but still the same tyranny. His uncle used to condemn people to a life in hell because they used to read a newspaper, his nephew now has the dubious honour of putting people in prison because they wrote a geo-political article on the internet. Malta and Communist China are the only countries in the world that put people in prison for writing on the internet,” Mr Lowell said.

Lawyer Emmy Bezzina said that they had received messages of support from all over the world.