Updated 6.42am Monday with Luke Dalli's Facebook post, photo of threatening message.  

European Commissioner Helena Dalli has confirmed that somebody entered the drive of her house in Malta and left a threatening message on her doorstep.

The case was reported on Il-Mument on Sunday, which said it was the latest episode of an increasingly divided Labour Party as Dalli was sidelined by the prime minister.

Dalli in a Facebook post did not give the context of the threatening message but said it happened on July 31 when a man placed a note on the doorstep warning "darb' oħra inkun ippreparat b'xi ħaga għat-tfal". (Next time I will be prepared with something for the children.")

She said she reported the case to the police and handed over CCTV footage showing the man walking up her drive, and his car outside.

Last week she enquired about what had happened to the investigation and was told "We have not come up with anything."

Il-Mument's article.

Dalli's son Luke said in a Facebook post late on Sunday also revealed that the threatening note came accompanied by a bag of drugs.

He said that he had found the threatening note on the doorstep, along with the bag of drugs when he took his son to his grandmother's. 

He slammed the police for not having done anything about it, despite having 'crystal-clear footage,' and he wondered why the case was not taken seriously.

He also published a picture of the note and asked who would be held to account if what was in the note materialised.

Solidarity from PN leader, former Repubblika president

Opposition leader Bernard Grech and former Repubblika president Robert Aquilina expressed solidarity with Dalli over the threats.

Bernard Grech said he had phoned the European Commissioner to express his solidarity and said it was a disgrace that a month after the incident the police commissioner had not investigated it.

Grech said he had offered support to Dalli and her family.

"If Commissioner Angelo Gafà is unable to investigate threats against a European Commissioner and appears to have done nothing in a month despite being in possession of footage, one can only wonder how ordinary Maltese citizens can feel safe in their homes," Grech said in Facebook post.

Aquilina in another post said Dalli should be offered protection.

"There should be no grounds for threats and intimidation in a democracy," he said in a Facebook post. "We have a duty to live our values, independently of who the people are. I disagree on a thousand things with Helena Dalli but that does not mean we should close an eye to threats made to her."

Dalli is in the last weeks of her five-year-term as European Commissioner having previously served as minister under Joseph Muscat and Robert Abela.

Last week her husband claimed that senior officials in the Labour Party had worked to destroy his wife’s credibility and stop her from becoming Malta’s president.

“Soon you will know the manoeuvres that were made in the appointment of the President of Malta by two high-ranking officials of the Labour Party to harm Helena's credibility," Patrick Dalli told social media users.

“It was a fascist attack on a woman who dedicated her life to the Labour Party and the Maltese people."

Patrick Dalli had taken to Facebook with his claim after the newspaper Illum said Helena Dalli was lobbying for a second term as European Commissioner, instead of Glenn Micallef, who is Malta’s nominee for the post.

Illum said that Dalli was attempting to strong-arm her way into securing a second term as Malta's EU Commissioner and she was going about this by criticising Micallef's lack of political experience. 

Helena Dalli had "categorically denied" the Illum report, adding in a Facebook post that she had more than enough experience to know where reports of dubious purpose originated. 

"As I have always done, I choose to continue working in the country's best interest and I will never stoop to these levels of low quality," she said.

"That being said, there is a limit to everything and you cannot always allow deception to go by unchecked." 

The Dallis’ son, Luke also announced last week that he was quitting the PL’s broadcasting stations.