PNP to investigate VP Duterte's slay threats vs President Marcos

 

Still shot of VP Duterte as she made the threat Friday

Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Gen. Rommel Marbil has ordered the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) to investigate Vice President Sara Duterte’s remarks about killing President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

The PNP said it recognizes the grave nature of Duterte’s statement last night, in which she spoke of  contracting an assassin to kill the President, his wife Lisa and cousin, House Speaker Martin Romualdez, in case she died.

Earlier, Duterte also said that she had imagined beheading Marcos after their relationship had become toxic.

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Malacanang earlier said  it considered the  VP’s statement that she had hired someone to kill the President and his wife and cousin “an active threat.”

Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin immediately referred the matter to the Presidential Securty Command for immediate action.

 “Any threat to the life of the President must always be taken seriously, more so that this threat has been publicly revealed in clear and certain terms,” the statement added.

Separately, Senate President Francis Escudero called on Duterte to seek help “so she can regain calm and composure, and properly discharge her duties as Vice President.”

Escudero said Duterte’s recent remarks  were deeply concerning as they were inappropriate for an official occupying the second highest office in the country.

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He urged those close to her to advise her against making “these indecorous and possibly criminal statements in public” as they do not benefit her, her office or the country.

The moves followed Duterte’s profanity-laden remarks at an online press conference she held jointly with her chief of staff, lawyer Zuleika Lopez, who was earlier cited in contempt by the House during a hearing into the alleged misuse of funds by the Office of the Vice President.

“I have talked to a person. I said, if I get killed, go kill BBM (Marcos), (first lady) Liza Araneta, and (Speaker) Martin Romualdez. No joke. No joke,” Duterte said, in between cursing the three. “I said, do not stop until you kill them, and then he said yes.”

She was responding to an online commenter urging her to stay safe, after she announced her intention of staying at the lower chamber of Congress overnight to be with her chief aide.

Lopez is shown being moved to St Luke's by Duterte and her supporters

Lopez was supposed to be kept at the House detention facility until the next hearing on Monday, but Duterte’s insistence on staying with her  prompted an order to keep the detainee at the Correctional Institute for Women in Mandaluyong instead.

This set off  a flurry of activities, with Lopez being moved to the Veteran’s Hospital, then to St. Luke’s, after complaining of a panic attack.

Earlier today, Lopez was moved back to Veteran’s Hospital on orders of the House, despite her attempt to resist the transfer by sobbing loudly while clinging on to Duterte , and asking for her help.

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