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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jim Gomez

Philippine police file criminal complaints against VP Sara Duterte and her security aides

Philippines Marcos Duterte Protagonists - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Philippine police officials on Wednesday filed criminal complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security staff for allegedly assaulting and disobeying orders from authorities in a recent altercation in Congress.

The criminal complaints filed by the Quezon City police were separate from any legal action may arise after she publicly threatened to have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., his wife and the House of Representatives speaker assassinated if she were killed herself in an unspecified plot. She has not provided details of that plot.

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