Black Monday in Malta refers to 15 October 1979 when the Progress Press (publisher of The Times) and the home of Eddie Fenech Adami, then Leader of the Opposition, were ransacked following a rally by the Labour Party.
A political rally was held by Labour supporters in the aftermath of an alleged attempt on Prime Minister Dom Mintoff's life in his offices at the Auberge de Castille, Valletta.
[1] Also on this day, some Malta Labour Party supporters invaded the private residence of Dr. Edward Fenech Adami, leader of the Nationalist Party, ransacking his home and assaulting his wife, Mary, his five children and his elderly mother.
Three days after Black Monday, Mintoff expressed his personal regret in writing to Mabel Strickland, proprietor of Progress Press.
He explicitly condemned the violence in an interview published by the Italian newsmagazine Panorama on 11 November.