The police are looking into an arson attack on the vehicle of Dione Borg, a well known MediaLink journalist, former MEP hopeful and Floriana FC official.

When contacted, Borg said he had just arrived home at 11pm, when he heard his dog barking. When he looked outside he saw his car engulfed in a ball of fire, and the alleged arsonist fleeing on an electric scooter. 

CCTV footage showed the suspect dousing the car with fuel. Among other things, his laptop was also in the car.

"I do not suspect anyone in particular, and I haven't had any rows with anyone recently. I cannot link the incident to football or politics."

He told Times of Malta: "It's not pleasant to know that somebody identified where I lived, probably waited for me until I returned home and then set fire to my car."

Borg is the general secretary of the Floriana football club, which could be  assigned Malta's premier league title later on Monday after football games were suspended in March to curb the COVID-19 spread.

He is a NET journalist who also ran for a European Parliament seat in 2019.

A police spokesperson said that while patrolling Triq Dun Mikiel Scerri in Attard at around 11.20pm, officials from the Birkirkara district saw a parked vehicle on fire.

The Civil Protection Department were called on site to put out the fire, which had spread from the Renault Megane to a nearby Skoda Favorit.

Police and magisterial investigations are ongoing.